The New Living Translation is a translation of the Bible into an easily readable form of modern English. It started out as an effort to revise The Living Bible, but the project evolved into a new English translation from available texts in the original languages. Some stylistic influences of The Living Bible, however, do remain.

This translation follows the dynamic equivalence or "thought for thought" method of translation rather than a more literal method. The goal is "to create a text that would make the same impact in the life of modern readers that the original text had for the original readers" (quoted from A Note to Readers).

A team of eighty-seven translators worked on it; the process began in 1989, and the translation was completed and published in 1996. A revision of the NLT was released in 2004.

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