Disciples' Literal New Testament

The Disciples' Literal New Testament is a modern, very literal rendering of the New Testament that seeks to reproduce the structures of the Greek closely in English. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, and it is categorized as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version. It belongs to a long tradition of strictly literal or formal-equivalence translations, which aim to let readers without Greek observe features of word order, phrasing, and syntax that smoother renderings tend to smooth away. In keeping with that approach, its distinctive value lies in its usefulness as a study translation rather than as polished English for public reading, and it is generally used alongside more idiomatic versions rather than in place of them.