ESV Text Edition (2025)  —  Notes 

The Pew Bible is the ESV® Text Edition® (2016). 

A 2025 edition of the ESV — 36 Scripture passages (in 24 books of the Bible) — was approved and adopted by the Crossway Board summer, 2024.

24 books of the Bible

36 Scripture passages

42 verses

68 word changes

Changed From (2016)  To (2025)

Genesis 3:16 Genesis 4:7

Exodus 7:15 Exodus 20:5 Exodus 20:11 Exodus 31:17 Exodus 34:23 Exodus 34:32

Deuteronomy 4:25 Deuteronomy 32:17

Joshua 15:16-19

Judges 1:12-15 Judges 3:11 Judges 8:28

2 Samuel 7:22

1 Kings 7:8

2 Kings 19:15

2 Chronicles 9:7

Job 7:4

Psalm 119:159

Isaiah 37:16

Jeremiah 24:7

Lamentations 3:14 Lamentations 3:32

Ezekiel 34:29

Daniel 9:25

Jonah 2:3 Jonah 2:5–6

Matthew 9:29 Matthew 15:28 Matthew 21:30

John 1:18

Romans 15:10

2 Corinthians 4:10

Ephesians 1:9–10 Ephesians 2:3

2 Timothy 4:5

Revelation 13:8

list from 

https://mikelilley.com/2025/02/10/2025-to-the-esv-bible/

mike@mikelilley.com

CROSSWAY OFFICIAL LIST OF CHANGES 

https://uploads.crossway.org/excerpt/esv-2025-text-changes.pdf

CROSSWAY OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 

https://www.crossway.org/articles/esv-bible-translation-update/

Given that more than 540 editions of the ESV are currently in print worldwide, the rollout of the text update will take nearly two years to complete. The first copies of the new ESV text editions will be released in the spring of 2025, and, Lord willing, almost all of them will be published by the fall of 2026.

An online resource which matches the ESV® Text Edition® (2016) Pew Bible  (at least, until they update their website to the new 2025 edition), is at: 

https://biblia.com/books/esv/article/TITLE

COMMENTS

The changes to the ESV in 2025, according to the ESV Translation Oversight Committee, are made up of “text changes to 36 Scripture passages involving 42 verses, resulting in a total of 68 word changes.”

The two most noteworthy changes include Genesis 3:16 and 4:7, which reverses the 2016 change in those verses back to the original 2001 translation. In 2025, the English phrase “contrary to” has reverted back to the original “for.” Egalitarian theologians and even some complementarian theologians disagreed with the 2016 change on this verse, a discussion that has been around for many decades, so it is interesting that the Oversight Committee reversed course to return to the 2001 translation.

The other notable verse is John 1:18, where “the only God” has been updated to “God the only Son.”