Bible Software
Posted on January 12, 2007
What’s your favorite Bible software? How much did it cost?
Honestly, I’ve never paid for Bible software and maybe I should, I know you get what you pay for. Then again, there are many free options out there for doing Bible study on your computer.
Over the next several posts, I plan to highlight a variety of resources available either online or downloadable. There are many good things out there and it might come down to your individual preference. By the way, I’m doing this primarily for myself, but I hope we can all benefit and learn in this process.
To start this online/downloadable software review, I thought I would share about my favorite hardcopy/offline/old fashioned Bible.
I bought my first NET Bible about 4 years ago. The NET Bible is awesome, mine has 57,875has 57,875
English: World English Bible - WEB
Izbrano poglavje ne obstaja!
WP-Bible plugin translation notes in it and is a solid translation from the original Hebrew and Greek. It’s pretty bulky though, bigger than your average Bible, but I still generally carry it to church with me every Sunday. If you buy the first edition today, I just saw that it now has 60,932has 60,932
English: World English Bible - WEB
Izbrano poglavje ne obstaja!
WP-Bible plugin translation notes! (wow, even more)
However, today I pulled the trigger and bought the new NET Bible Reader’s edition, which is smaller, with not as many notes and only 20 bucks through the end of the month! I’m pretty excited to get it.
Go check it out and get your own, also, look around the bible.org site, there is a lot of info and this is a ministry minded organization and their heart is to distribute this translation in a way that gets it into your hands and on your computer and out to as many people as possible. Here’s a portion of their copyright statement from their site:
From our web site at www.bible.org, you may download the information and use it on your computer for personal study or you can print it for yourself and others as long as you give it away and do not charge for it and you must give credit (see below Information to Include on copies used for ministry purposes) In this case, free means free. It cannot be bundled with anything sold, nor can you charge for shipping, handling, or anything.
I mainly want you to have the chance to buy your own copy of the NET Bible for only $20. If you’re not completely satisfied, let Churchonomics know, I know Brad will step up and suggest something to ease your pain. It won’t come to that, but just know you have that to fall back on.
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My favorite Bible software is absolutely e-Sword. (Sadly, it only runs on windows. But there is also a pocket-pc version, which is what I use most of the time.)
It isn’t open source, but it is free. And it has dozens of Bible versions to download. However, some must be purchased to be activated, such as the NIV and NASB [1]. My personal favorite version is the ESV, and it *is* free. [2]
You can also download maps, dictionaries, and commentaries. There is also a module for adding personal notes to verses. (Last time I checked, if you were to download everything, including all the international Bible versions, it comes to around 5Gb.) It’s really a very solid application and I heartily recommend it to just about anyone.
[1] Those versions that must be purchased are due to the version authors themselves, not the author of e-Sword.
[2] Good News Publishers/Crossway Books have done a fabulous job making the text of the ESV accessible. They have all kinds of RSS feeds for Scripture and devotionals, WebAPIs, prebuilt JavaScript snipits. (ESV Web Services) They also provide MP3 or flash audio to listen to. I promise I’m not affiliated with GNP/CB or the ESV in any way. I just absolutely love what they’ve done with technology to make God’s Word easily (and freely) available in as many forms as possible.
Thanks for all the info, that’s great. You basically wrote a post in your comment.
Wanna be a guest blogger? LOL (serious question beneath that LOL)
e-sword is actually one of the ones on my list to discuss.
I love your enthusiasm on the topic, thanks, man!
Well, you get what you pay for. If all you want is to be able to search the bible then the free stuff is fine. If you want quality commentaries and other book-like resources to help you dig deeper, then logos bible software is the undisputed king in my humble opinion. Just before Christmas I posted about
oops…my link didnt work I wanted to give a link to my post listing some of the resources