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Copyright and attribution
Scripture Study reads from several Bible texts. Some are old enough that nobody owns them any more; others are modern translations that belong to their publishers and are shown here under licence. This page says which is which, and carries each publisher’s notice in full.
Licensed translations
Copyrighted texts, served under the licences below. They are not ours to give away: you may read and study them here, and quoting them anywhere else is governed by the publisher’s own terms.
The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® NASB® Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation A Corporation Not for Profit La Habra, CA All Rights Reserved www.lockman.org
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.esv.org
Texts included with the app
Public-domain translations and the tagged original-language texts, stored in this app’s own database.
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Reference works
What the lexicon, dictionary, topical index, and cross references are built from. Some are old enough to be out of copyright; others are modern compilations shared under open licences that ask only to be credited, which is what this list does.
BibleProject, © BibleProject. Not public domain and not bundled: their animated book overviews and the posters that go with them are embedded from BibleProject’s own servers and from their official YouTube channel, under the terms at bibleproject.com/terms. This app stores no copy of any of it, alters nothing, and charges nothing for it. Each video and poster carries BibleProject’s own credit line beneath it in the reader, and the card they sit in names them.
James Strong, 1894 and 1890, via openscriptures/strongs. Public domain. The definitions, derivations, and KJV renderings behind every tapped word.
John Jeffrey Dodson, 2012, via the CrossWire SWORD module. Released into the public domain by its compiler. A short modern gloss and part of speech for every Greek word, beside Strong's own definition.
George Abbott-Smith, 1922, via the CrossWire SWORD module, which is public domain in its own right. The full scholarly article behind each Greek word — inflection, Septuagint usage, and the senses one at a time.
CC BY 4.0. The Hebrew and Greek lemmas, transliterations, glosses, and morphology in the lexicon; the parsing of every word in both testaments; and the tagged Greek and Hebrew reading texts themselves.
BSB-publishing/bsb-data. CC0. The alignment between the English and the original-language words.
Quoting these texts elsewhere
Anything marked public domain you may copy freely, with or without attribution. The licensed translations are another matter, and the limits are the publisher’s rather than ours. For the ESV, Crossway permits up to 500 verses in a work — provided the quotation is not a complete book of the Bible, is not half of any one book, and is not more than half of the work quoting it — and requires the notice above wherever it appears. Crossway does not permit the ESV to be quoted in anything published under a Creative Commons licence. Their own terms are at esv.org and api.esv.org, and they are the authority — not this page.
The app itself keeps only a small, rolling amount of licensed text: enough recently-read chapters to make turning back a page quick, well inside what each licence allows to be stored, and cleared out as it ages.
If something here is yours
Something on this page wrong, a notice you would like worded differently, or material published by a reader to the community library that you hold the rights to? Say so and it will be dealt with — material that appears to infringe is taken down while it is looked into.
It helps to identify the work, where it appears here, and your relationship to it.
If you have an account, the quickest route is Send feedback in the sidebar. It reaches the administrator with your account attached, so there is nothing to prove before your request can be acted on.
If you do not — you asked for access and never got one, you are a publisher, or you are writing on someone else’s behalf — use the contact page. It goes straight to the administrator, and the reply comes back to the address you give.
The full complaints route is in the terms of use.