A thoughtful place to study.

Welcome to Modern Bible. This project brings reading, translation comparison, and textual study into one accessible workspace, to encourage regular time in the Word of God.

Intent and purpose

Our goal is an accurate, accessible, fast, and readable library that makes the Bible easier to read, understand, and explore. Scripture readability comes first, with regular improvements to the study experience.

Psalms 119:89 (KJV)
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Isaiah 40:8 (KJV)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Matthew 24:35 (KJV)
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Study wherever you are

Open Modern Bible in your browser on a phone, tablet, or desktop. No separate app installation is required. An internet connection is needed for reading and account services.

Getting started

• Choose a Bible to begin reading. The bottom passage bar can take you to any available book, chapter, or verse.
• Use VP beside a verse to compare selected translations. Translation information identifies historical editions and sources.
• Other Books groups supplementary works into collections. Choose an edition by its translator, author, and production date before reading. Historical introductions represent their sources, not necessarily current scholarly consensus.
• Decipher searches scripture on the server, with full-result statistics and scope-aware charts.
• Private study accounts and verse-linked notes are coming soon, once email services are available.

About translation differences

Translations can omit, combine, or add reference positions. A matching verse address preserves that distinction; an absent passage is not silently shifted to another verse.

Availability and future subscriptions

A subscription offering is planned for this web application. Plans, pricing, access rules, and payment processing will be finalized and implemented before public launch. No subscription checkout or recurring charges are enabled in this preview.

Any paid plan and its terms will be clearly described before enrollment. Creating an account in this preview does not authorize charges.

Community activity and privacy

The landing page shows aggregate visits, page views, recently active sessions, signed-in sessions, and sessions reading scripture or supplementary texts. “Scholars online” counts active browser sessions, including anonymous visitors seen in the last three minutes, not just registered accounts or verified people. A visit ends after thirty minutes without activity. Multiple tabs in one browser share a session; separate devices can count separately.

Visible public pages send a heartbeat about once a minute. Private account and note pages are not measured. We store a hash of a random first-party activity cookie, last activity time, and whether that session is signed in or reading. No account IDs, IP addresses, search terms, verse references, or reading histories are stored in these statistics. Session rows expire after thirty minutes of inactivity and are removed on subsequent activity; daily aggregate totals remain. Counts begin when each metric was introduced.

The activity cookie expires after thirty minutes without renewal. Session tracking respects your browser’s Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control setting; session totals are approximate and may miss blocked scripts, automated traffic, or opted-out browsers. Separately, lifetime landing-page visits count every GET request for the home page, including reloads, repeat IPs, bots, and opted-out browsers. This server-side aggregate uses no cookies or IP storage and started when the counter was added; it does not include historical visits. Heartbeats, other pages, assets, and HEAD requests do not increase it. Activity is not a billing, attendance, or exact unique-person measurement. No third-party analytics service receives this data.

Text sources

The library includes historic Bible translations and supplementary editions, with attribution and source information. Listing a work is not a claim to its copyright or an endorsement of its canonical status. Public access to a source does not itself grant republication rights; some modern editions remain unavailable pending reuse authorization.

Legal disclaimer

This application is copyrighted according to common law copyright. I am claiming copyright only in the application itself; I am not claiming copyright in any of the books included in this application. The rights and licenses of each book, translation, and image remain with their respective rights holders where applicable.

This website is the Modern Bible application. Other applications claiming to be Modern Bible that are not officially provided through ModernBible.org are not my independent work or official releases.

This disclaimer applies to ModernBible.org and this web application.