New Ground English Translation

If you’ve never been to church or read the Bible, you’ve encountered entirely new territory here.

Traditional translations use words like “justified,” “sanctified,” “righteous,” and “atonement”—terms that function as religious jargon rather than meaningful English.

When Bible translators go to unreached people groups today, they don’t import foreign religious vocabulary; they translate into the actual language people use.

The NGET applies this same principle to post-Christian Western culture, treating it as a new mission field that deserves a fresh translation, not recycled religious dialect.

If you grew up in church, these ancient texts may have become oddly unfamiliar through over-familiarity.

You’ve heard the words so many times they’ve worn smooth, like river stones—pretty but no longer functional.

“Righteousness,” “sin,” and “holiness” have become church-words that you’d never use at work, at home, or with friends. The soil has hardened.

The NGET breaks up that unplowed ground, letting you hear these texts as if for the first time in language that connects to your actual life.