The New Living Translation renders the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English. Where possible, the NLT simply and literally translates the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic directly into accurate, clear, and natural English text. But in cases when the literal word-for-word translation was hard to understand, the translators rendered the message more dynamically, or thought-for-thought so it reads in clear, natural English. Thomas Nelson publishes NLT editions by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.