Since its first release in 1985, the Gold Medallion Award-winning NIV Study Bible has become the treasured and trusted companion of over nine million Bible readers. The in-depth notes are coded to highlight notes of special interest in the areas of character study, archaeology, and personal application. Visually arresting section breaks help you find your bearing in the Bible. Full-color photos, maps, and illustrations make this study Bible accessible and friendly.

Referred to daily by millions of pastors, students, church leaders, and other Bible readers around the world, the over-20,000 NIV Study Bible notes are the handiwork of the same translation team that produced this Bible's text. The very best evangelical scholarship that brought you today's most popular modern English Bible also contributed to the most celebrated and widely used study notes in existence.

Like no other Bible, the NIV Study Bible places an entire resource library for Bible study in your hands.Features:

• Full text of the world's most popular modern English Bible—the New International Version (NIV)
• Over 20,000 study notes, with icons to make important information easy to spot
• Introductions and outlines provide valuable background information for each book of the Bible
• In-text maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations visually clarify the stories in the Bible
• 16 pages of full-color maps plus time lines and presentation page
• Words of Christ in red
• NIV concordance plus subject and study notes indexes