The New International Version has become an immensely popular translation since it was first published in 1979. Its particular success has been to communicate the thought of the Biblical writers in clear idiomatic English. The Wide Margin Edition includes all the essential elements for studying the Bible: * thorough central cross-references * comprehensive footnotes * special notes for parallel passages Cambridge's NIV Wide-Margin Reference Edition has wide, clean margins all around the double-column text, enabling readers to record their own notes and insights next to the verse to which they relate. It is therefore printed on paper that will sustain hand-written notes in ink.