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The Luther Bible (German: Lutherbibel) is a German language Bible translation by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther.A New Testament translation by Luther was first published in September 1522; the completed Bible contained 75 books, including the Old Testament, Apocrypha and New Testament, which was printed in 1534.
Luther's 1534 Bible. Luther's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Martin Luther, which has influenced Protestants since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.While the Lutheran Confessions specifically did not define a biblical canon, it is widely regarded as the canon of the Lutheran Church.
The Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV) is a translation of the Bible into the English language. The translation project was called The Wartburg Project and the group of translators consisted of pastors, professors, and teachers from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), both based in the United States.
There is a version for organ, BWV 720, written early in his career, possibly for the organ at Divi Blasii, Mühlhausen. [20] He used the hymn as the basis of his chorale cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott , BWV 80 written for a celebration of Reformation Day .
John 3:16 is considered to be a popular Bible verse [120] and acknowledged as a summary of the gospel. [121] In the United States, the verse is often used by preachers during sermons [122] and widely memorised among evangelical churches' members. [123] 16th-century German Protestant theologian Martin Luther said the verse is "the gospel in ...
A 2014 study into the Bible in American Life found that of those survey respondents who read the Bible, there was an overwhelming favouring of Protestant translations. 55% reported using the King James Version, followed by 19% for the New International Version, 7% for the New Revised Standard Version (printed in both Protestant and Catholic ...
Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions — A Reader's Edition of the Book of Concord. Paul Timothy McCain, general editor. second edition. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2006. ISBN 0-7586-1343-1. (A modern language version of the English text of Concordia Triglotta, St. Louis: CPH, 1921 interspersed with explanatory notes)
A successor was published in 2006 titled Evangelical Lutheran Worship, although Lutheran Book of Worship remains in use by some congregations. The LBW is sometimes called the "green book", as opposed to With One Voice, which is bound in blue, or the older Service Book and Hymnal and The Lutheran Hymnal, which were bound in red.