Short (5-20 mins)
New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
Why is the NIV Bible Translation updated so much?
Theologian
Bill Mounce
Duration
7.36
Uploaded to YouTube
14 December 2017
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
Unlike other translations, the NIV is always being updated. From the very beginning, the NIV was to be a Bible in current English, and since English is changing so quickly, we have to keep up with it, and scholarship. So the CBT (Committee on Bible Translation) meets every summer, and about every ten years or so our work surfaces in a new addition.
We do not know when the next update will come out. This is a Zondervan issue. I would not expect one for a while.
