H. Knorr told a convention audience: “More and more the need has been felt for a translation in modern speech, in harmony with revealed truth, and yet furnishing us the basis for gaining further truth by faithfully presenting the sense of the original writings; a translation just as understandable to modern readers as the original writings of Christ’s disciples were understandable to the simple, plain, common, lowly readers of their day. ”
उस अधिवेशन में, भाई नॉर ने कहा कि परमेश्‍वर के लोगों को बाइबल का ऐसा अनुवाद चाहिए जो आजकल की भाषा में लिखा गया हो, जिसका मतलब पूरी तरह सही हो, समझने में आसान हो और जिससे वे सच्चाई को अच्छी तरह समझ सकें ।