The Biblical Standard Version with study tools built for serious readers of Scripture. Free Bible reading, plans, memory verses, notes, highlights, and audio. Optional Premium adds Greek and Hebrew word study, cross-references, and inductive marking.
Most Bible apps are reading apps with a Strong's lookup bolted on. BSV Bible is built the other way around — for people who actually study the Word. The translation is deliberate, the study tools favor direct biblical connections over speculative theology, and your reading is yours: notes, highlights, and progress live on your device, never on our servers.
Tap any English word to see the Greek or Hebrew underneath — transliteration, Strong's number, frequency, and a careful definition that lets the original languages speak.
Five Scripture-interprets-Scripture connections per verse, each with a one-sentence explanation. Built to favor direct biblical links over speculative theology.
Mark words across the whole Bible by category — key terms, repeated phrases, characters, time markers, locations. Categories travel with you from passage to passage.
The Biblical Standard Version is an original translation produced by Straight Truth Press, built on a let-Scripture-interpret-Scripture hermeneutic. The translation principles are deliberate: baptizo is rendered "immerse," ekklesia is rendered "assembly," hagioi is rendered "God's people."
We don't smuggle denominational baggage into the original meanings. We let the words mean what they mean.
The reading is free, the translation is ours, and the API costs are real. Optional gifts help keep the lights on and the tools improving.
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