In August 2016 Crossway announced that the ESV text, after a small set of changes, would remain unchanged in all future editions. Crossway’s statement of 28 September 2016 says the aim was a stable text for reading, memorising, preaching and liturgy; it then says the decision was a mistake, apologises for the concern it caused readers, and says future updates would be minimal and infrequent. In 2025 the committee changed some of the 2016 wording again, for example returning Genesis 3:16 from “contrary to” to the 2001 reading “for”. Readers who wanted a fixed text and readers who wanted continued revision both appear in Crossway’s account; we take no side.