The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints, Revised Edition

An essential resource for the 2023 Come Follow Me study of the New Testament

• "Uneclipsed by any other available Latter-day Saint presentation of the New Testament." — BYU Studies Quarterly
• "A terrific new resource—all of it quite relevant in our own Christian lives and how we interact with Jesus’s core messages and his calls for us to follow." — Mormon Matters
• "Perfect for a family to use as the basis of a year-long study of the New Testament for Sunday School under the new largely home-based Come Follow Me program." — By Common Consent
• "Every Latter-day Saint wishing to seriously engage the New Testament should pick up a copy of Wayment’s new translation." — The Interpreter Foundation
• "Draws upon his expert knowledge of both the ancient Greek language and the best ancient manuscript evidence. " — Deseret News

The language of the King James Bible will always be part of the Latter-day Saint cultural fabric in English. It is woven into our hymns, our ordinances, and our scriptural canon, and it has been one of the primary vehicles through which we encounter the word of God. However, when the language of translation becomes too foreign, too distant from the present age, it is time to consider the possibility of another translation. The four-hundred-year-old King James Bible in use by English-speaking Latter-day Saints is an artifact of the seventeenth century and is no longer a living and breathing text. The New Testament was written by the marginalized and impoverished; its language is that of common people and not the educated elites.

The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints is an invitation to engage again the meaning of the text for a new and more diverse English readership by rendering the New Testament into modern language in a way that will help a reader more fully understand the teachings of Jesus, his disciples, and his followers.

This new, revised edition is an effort to correct the first edition—in nearly two hundred instances—both in the notes and less frequently in the text. In addition, the introductory material has been expanded to include discussions of the Joseph Smith Translation and on reading scripture, and appendices have been added detailing the many instances in which the language of the New Testament appears in other Latter-day Saint scripture.