From a troubled childhood, to enforced service in the Royal Navy where he was such a blasphemous troublemaker that he was traded to a slave ship, God pursued John Newton with relentless love and amazing grace. John Newton, the worst of the worst who became a ringing voice for God, testified of his transformation in his stirring hymn "Amazing Grace".
This IBS translation of the Bible is for the Japanese language.
This translation uses an informal language style and applies
a meaning-based translation philosophy. It is translated
from the biblical languages and was completed in 1977.