Bible translations

Only public-domain and openly licensed translations are offered. Texts were obtained once from the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org) and are served from our own database.

• King James Version (KJV) — Public domain. Public domain outside the United Kingdom; in the UK the rights are vested in the Crown.
• American Standard Version (ASV) — Public domain.
• Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — Public domain.
• World English Bible (WEB) — Public domain.
• Literal Standard Version (LSV) — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Literal Standard Version (LSV). Copyright © 2020 by Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence. Text unchanged except for whitespace and verse-marker normalisation.
• Free Bible Version (FBV) — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free Bible Version (FBV). Copyright © 2018 Jonathan Gallagher. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence. Text unchanged except for whitespace and verse-marker normalisation.
• Majority Standard Bible (MSB) — Public domain.
• Darby Translation (DBY) — Public domain.
• Young's Literal Translation (YLT) — Public domain.
• Geneva Bible (1599) (GNV) — Public domain.
• Douay-Rheims (1899) (Vulgate numbering) (DRA) — Public domain.
• Webster Bible (WBS) — Public domain.
• Bible in Basic English (BBE) — Public domain.

Audio Bible

King James Version read by Dan Wagner, recorded in 1999 by Audio Scriptures International. Served free of charge, one chapter at a time, from the complete recording on archive.org. Their message:

“Thank you for listening to this recording of the King James Bible produced by Audio Scriptures International. Audio Scriptures International believes it is more important to spread the Word of God than to make a large profit. Please feel free to make copies of these recordings and distribute them freely so long as you adhere to the following guidelines: 1. You may not charge any more than the cost to duplicate and send them. 2. You must make a complete copy of the recording, including this message. For commercial and fund raising distribution, please contact Audio Scriptures International for additional information.”

Other translations and voices are read by text-to-speech (Google Cloud and OpenAI), or by your device's own voice.

Cross-references

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references with relevance votes from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.

Word studies

Strong’s Greek and Hebrew dictionaries from the Open Scriptures project, licensed CC BY-SA (derived from James Strong’s public-domain concordance, 1890–94). Word-by-word Strong’s tagging of the KJV from the public-domain KJV with Strong’s numbers (via bolls.life).

Bible art

The pictures in the Glossary of the Faith are public-domain engravings, served from our own site. Each is marked public domain on its Wikimedia Commons page.

• Le Calvaire (The Crucifixion) — Gustave Doré, 1877. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• The Resurrection (engraved by H. Pisan; from The Bible Panorama, 1891) — Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain (Doré died 1883; book published 1891) — Commons tags it “No known copyright restrictions”. Wikimedia Commons
• The Sermon on the Mount — Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• The Return of the Prodigal Son — Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1668. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• Moses Breaks the Tables of the Law — Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• La Pentecôte (Pentecost; engraved by Paul Jonnard) — Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• L’Ascension (The Ascension) — Gustave Doré, 1879. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons
• The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

Commentary

Matthew Henry, Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Keil & Delitzsch, and Tyndale — public-domain commentaries obtained from the Free Use Bible API.