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that all may hear At Global Bible
(above left), you can read the Bible in over 1,000 languages.
Revised Common Lectionary: For churches that use the lectionary in daily and weekly worship, this site by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s library contains the text of all RCL Scripture passages with accompanying art and worship resources. StudyBible: This is yet another site that brings together public domain resources and allows parallel text comparisons. The Text This Week: Another popular lectionary webpage, this comprehensive site contains theological, exegetical, worship, and devotional resources for all the Sunday readings from the RCL and several other frequently used lectionaries. USCCB: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has placed the entire New American Bible translation with the Apocrypha, the one approved for Roman Catholic worship, online with commentary. Youversion (Bible.com): Most often used in its app format, the Bible App, this site contains a number of English translations and is widely known for its daily Bible reading plans. —Jennifer Woodruff Tait, managing editor of Christian History
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The Word of God is living and active be confused with the New English today (Hebrews 4:12) in a number of Translation of the Bible, also abbreplaces as never before—thanks to the viated NET.) internet. Here are some popular websites dedicated to making free Bible Biblica: Sponsored by the International Bible Society (IBS), this featexts and resources available. tures 40 translations as well as daily American Bible Society: Most of the devotionals. ABS website is devoted to its Bible distribution mission, but you can Blue Letter Bible: This is another also sign up for daily Bible readings site bringing public domain translations together and pairing them by email. with modern and historic commenBible Gateway: Calvin College tary. It has a sophisticated search student Nick Hengeveld founded function and an app. this website in 1993; according to BG, he “had a visionary passion to Faith Comes By Hearing: This site make the Bible digitally accessible provides downloadable audio Bibles to everyone through the very new in over 1,300 languages. technology at the time called the internet.” Today it belongs to Harp- Global Bible: Sponsored by the ABS, erCollins and features more than this site links to hundreds of modern 200 translations in 70 languages, Bible translations. plus commentary and devotional resources. Greek Orthodox Bible: While incomplete, this site contains approved Bible Hub: This site features “topi- New Testament texts in Greek as cal, Greek and Hebrew study tools, used in the Greek Orthodox Church. plus concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, sermons, and devo- OCA Scriptures: This site contionals.” It includes public domain tains daily readings and worship resources and is a sister site to resources for the Orthodox Church the Online Parallel Bible, which in America. began in 2004 and focuses on presenting translations in parallel for Oremus Bible Browser: Part of a comparison. larger ministry by Steve Benner and Simon Kershaw that has focused on Bible.org/NET Bible: This site fea- posting the Anglican Daily Office tures Bible study tools and the NET since 1993, this site contains the Bible, a complete online Bible in the Bible text in several versions plus original languages and a few popu- worship resources from the Anglilar translations. (This should not can tradition.
