The New American Bible (NAB) is the Bible used every week during Roman-Catholic mass. Originally published in 1970, the NAB came out in 1986 with a revised New Testament. Although a Roman-Catholic translation, Roman-Catholics produced the NAB "'in cooperation with our separated brethren' so that 'all Christians [can] use them.'"
Also noteworthy is that the NAB was the first Roman-Catholic translation based on the original languages instead of Jerome's Vulgate. This made the translation more accurate, but did, how-ever, nothing to rescue the NAB from bland prose. In response to outcries for a more liturgical, musical text, scholars started revising the NAB's New Testament. Now the NAB, at least the New Testament, uses more dignified language and even more closely follows the word order of the original language. This version, too, contains the Apocrypha in the Old Testament.
In the NAB 1 John 3:17 reads:
If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God re-main in him? (NAB)
The NAB receives a D in accuracy and a C+ in readability.