The Message (Bible)
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The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (MSG) is a paraphrase of the Bible in contemporary English. Authored by Eugene H. Peterson and published in segments from 1993 to 2002.[2]
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Full name | The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language |
Abbreviation | MSG |
NT published | 1993 |
Complete Bible published | 2002 |
Translation type | Paraphrase |
Revision | 2018 |
Publisher | NavPress |
Copyright | THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved. |
Religious affiliation | Presbyterian[1] |
Website | messagebible |
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared.
"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. |
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A Catholic version, The Message – Catholic / Ecumenical Edition, was published in 2013.[3]