Editing New Revised Standard Version (section)

== Reception ==
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Many [[mainline Protestant]] churches officially approve the NRSV for both private and public use. [[The Episcopal Church]] (United States) in Canon II.2 added the NRSV to the list of translations approved for church services. It is also widely used by the [[United Methodist Church]], the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]], the [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)]], the [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]], the [[Presbyterian Church in Canada]],<ref>{{cite web | title=PCC Writer's Style Guide | page= 19 | publisher= Presbyterian Church in Canada – Life and Mission Agency | date=November 2009 | url= https://presbyterian.ca/wp-content/uploads/pcc_style_guide.pdf | access-date=2020-11-05 | quote=The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is the official Bible standard for The Presbyterian Church in Canada.}}</ref> the [[United Church of Christ]], the [[Reformed Church in America]], the [[United Church of Canada]], and the [[Uniting Church in Australia]].

In accordance with the [[1983 Code of Canon Law]], [[Canon (canon law)|Canon]] 825.1, the NRSV with the deuterocanonical books received the [[Imprimatur]] of the [[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]] and the [[Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops]],<ref name="Harper">{{cite book | title=The Go-Anywhere Thinline Bible Catholic Edition New Revised Standard Version | page=ix | year=2011 | publisher=HarperOne | isbn=978-0062048363 | quote=...and an edition of the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books placed between the two Testaments. The text of the latter edition received the Imprimatur (official approbation) of the United States and Canadian Catholic Bishops.}}</ref> meaning that the NRSV (Catholic Edition) is officially approved by the [[Catholic Church]] and can be profitably used by Catholics in private study and devotional reading. The [[New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition|New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition]] also has the [[imprimatur]], granted on 12 September 1991 and 15 October 1991, respectively. For public worship, such as at [[Mass in the Catholic Church|weekly Mass]], most [[Catholic Bishops' Conference]]s in English-speaking countries require the use of other translations, either the adapted [[New American Bible]] in the dioceses of the [[United States]] and the [[Philippines]] or the [[English Standard Version]] and [[Revised New Jerusalem Bible]] in most of the rest of the English-speaking world.<ref>{{Cite news | last= | first=  | date=July 24, 2020 | title=A New Lectionary for Scotland | work=Scottish Catholic Media Office | url=https://scmo.org/news-releases/perma/1595577600/article/a-new-lectionary-for-scotland.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107212724/https://scmo.org/news-releases/perma/1595577600/article/a-new-lectionary-for-scotland.html | archive-date=January 7, 2021 | access-date=January 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=New Zealand helps with new lectionary project | website=www.cathnews.co.nz | date=2021-05-10 | url=https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/10/new-zealand-catholic-lectionary/ | access-date=2021-11-03}}</ref> However, the Canadian conference and the Vatican approved a modification of the NRSV for lectionary use in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Michael | last=Swan | title=NRSV Bible gets Vatican recognition | work=The Catholic Register | date=September 5, 2007 | url=https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/9802-nrsv-bible-gets-vatican-recognition}}</ref> The NRSV, along with the [[Revised Standard Version]], is also quoted in several places in the English-language edition of the ''[[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]'', the latter of which summarizes Catholic doctrine and belief in written form.

In 1990 the [[synod]] of the [[Orthodox Church in America]] decided not to permit use of the NRSV in liturgy or in Bible studies on the grounds that it is highly "divergent from the Holy Scriptures traditionally read aloud in the sacred services of the Church."<ref>{{cite web | first=Tikhon | last=Fitzgerald | title=Bishop's Pastoral Letter on the New Revised Standard Version | url=http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/tikhon.nrsv.html | access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref>