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. ”
સંમેલનમાં ભાઈ નૉરે કહ્યું હતું: ‘ ઈશ્વરના લોકોને એવા બાઇબલ અનુવાદની જરૂર છે, જે ઈસુના શિષ્યોના મૂળ લખાણોની જેમ જ સમજવામાં સહેલો અને સચોટ હોય. ’