The New Revised Standard Version is the translation preferred by mainline Protestant churches, Orthodox churches, and by many Catholics. The NRSV is recognized in many scholarly circles as the most accurate translation into English of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. In the tradition of its predecessors, the King James Version and the Revised Standard Version, the NRSV was designed to be the "standard" version for English–speaking people across all denominations, which in many ways it has become. Unlike some of the new, more sectarian translations, the NRSV maintains the highest standards of elegance and accuracy.This edition does NOT include the Apocrypha.