Lovian Standard Version

The Lovian Standard Version (LSV) is an English language translation of the Bible, published exclusively in Lovia. It is a revision of the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version. It traces its history to William Tyndale's New Testament translation of 1525 and has been influenced by the American Standard Version of 1901.

The first edition was published in 2001 by Lovehouse Bibles. The LSV Study Bible, also published by Lovehouse Bibles, was published in September 2008. It uses the LSV translation and adds extensive notes and articles based on evangelical Christian scholarship. The LSV Bible is one of the most common versions in Lovia, and is most often read by center-right conservative, evangelical Christians.

Translation philosophy
The stated intent of the translators at Lovehouse Bibles was to produce a readable and accurate translation that stands in the tradition of Bible translations beginning with English religious reformer William Tyndale in the 1520s and culminating in the King James Version of 1611. In their own words, they sought to follow a literal translation philosophy, which is often referred to as "formal equivalence". To that end, the translators sought as far as possible to capture the precise wording of the original text and the personal style of each Bible writer, while taking into account differences of grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages. The result is a translation that is more literal than the popular New International Version, but much more idiomatic than the New American Standard Bible, which is also read frequently in Lovia.

Textual basis
When necessary to translate difficult passages, the translators referred to the Masoretic text - that is the original Hebrew text - of the Jewish Bible (as found in the second edition of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) and to the twenty-seventh edition of Nestle and Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece. In a few difficult cases, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Peshitta, the Latin Vulgate, and other sources were consulted to shed possible light on the text or, if necessary, to support a divergence from the Masoretic text.