Recovery Version of the Bible

The Recovery Version is a complete Bible translation associated with the Local Church movement and the ministry of Witness Lee, issued together with an extensive system of study notes. Covering the whole of Scripture, it is a fresh translation made directly from the original languages — Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek — working from critical original-language texts rather than revising an earlier English version, and it stands within the broader modern effort to render the Bible from the best available manuscript evidence. Its translation philosophy is formal and study-oriented, favouring close correspondence to the wording and structure of the sources. Among its distinctive features is the separation of the biblical text itself from the interpretive apparatus that accompanies it: the rendering is presented as a translation distinct from the notes, outlines, and cross-references, which set out the movement's characteristic reading of Scripture.