The New Testament

About this translation

This is a personal English translation of the New Testament, made with AI assistance and checked against the Greek text. The aim is readable American English that stays accountable to the original: preserving imagery, meaningful gender distinctions, difficult content, and genuine ambiguity, and following the evidence rather than a required theological tradition.

It is a working draft. It has not received independent human specialist review. Wording is provisional and changes as review continues. Each chapter here is published directly from the translation's working files. The translator's fuller study notes are kept in the source repository and are not shown on this site.

Reading the text

Verse numbers are shown in small superscript for reference. The translation uses ordinary paragraphs and modern punctuation, with no section headings added inside chapters. Verse numbers occasionally skip where the Greek base text omits a verse found in later manuscripts. On a keyboard, the left and right arrow keys move to the previous and next chapter.

Passages set inside double brackets like this are familiar passages with strong evidence against their original placement at the traditional location. They are retained and marked; inclusion does not imply equal textual confidence.

Translation notes. Each chapter ends with the translator's short notes on that chapter: alternative renderings, textual variants, and the reasoning behind difficult choices, labeled by verse. They are collapsed by default. Open the Translation notes panel at the end of a chapter, or press n, to show them; the site remembers the choice on this device and applies it to every chapter until you close the panel again.

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Source and attribution

Greek source: The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, edited by Michael W. Holmes, copyright © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. See the SBLGNT website and source repository.

The English text is an adaptation for this project and is not endorsed by the Greek source's licensors. Third-party source materials retain their respective licenses and attribution requirements.

Licensing and reuse

Except where otherwise noted, the original English translation and original accompanying notes are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Commercial use requires a separate written agreement with Robert Chapman. Read the complete license.

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