The Ultimate in NIV Comparison Stats

We’re either over-obsessed with numbers or there are a lot of frustrated sports statisticians out there who got work in ministry.

Then again, maybe the Committee on Bible Translation simply compiled all this to save everyone else a lot of time.

Biggest changes in verses*:

1. Galatians 32.21% (almost a third of all verses)
2. III John  28.57%
3. Ezra  26.79%
4. Micah  25.71%
5. Jonah 22.92 %

Least changes in verses*:

1. Song of Solomon 1.71% (maybe they just didn’t want to go there)
2. Esther 2.4%
3. Numbers 3.11%
4. Philemon 4.00%  (of course it was small to begin with!)
5. I Samuel  4.20%

*That’s verses as opposed to “words and punctuation” for which changes were not all that dramatic:

Greatest change in words and punctuation:

1. Proverbs 11.46%
2. Job  8.27%
3. III John 8.07%  (appears high in both lists…)

Least changes in words and punctuation:

1. Haggai  3.59% (I enjoyed his Can America Survive?)
2. Obadiah 3.62% (there’s a book called that?  — just kidding!)
3. Ezra  3.66%

You can get all this at this information at this link.   Has there ever been a translation so carefully reviewed and dissected prior to print publication?