About this library
Scripture is free. Reading it should be too. So here it is: the full text, clean on the page, ready when you are.
We pay the hosting ourselves. You can read every word without an account, and nothing here is watching you do it. That is the whole arrangement.
Every text in this library is in the public domain or freely licensed to share. When a translation is still under copyright, we say so plainly and point you to where you can read it.
What is here, and what is coming
Today the library holds the King James Version in its 1769 revision, along with the Apocrypha as it appeared in the original 1611 edition. The KJV is in the public domain in most of the world. It is the most-read English Bible in history. The Apocrypha, sometimes called the Deuterocanonical Books, has been read in Lutheran Bibles for nearly five centuries, and sat in the 1611 King James Bible as its own section between the Old and New Testaments.
Next come the World English Bible, the American Standard Version, and texts from other traditions, starting with the Quran in a public-domain English translation.
Source texts
The KJV text comes from public-domain digital editions, principally the aruljohn/Bible-kjv repository on GitHub, checked against the openbible.com KJV text. The Apocrypha combines two public-domain sources: books 1 Esdras through 2 Maccabees from the Scrollmapper Deuterocanonical Project (2024 branch), and the Letter of Jeremiah, which is Baruch chapter 6 in the 1611 arrangement, from the Scrollmapper Bible Databases KJVA dataset (2025 branch). Both keep the 1611 King James translation. Find an error? Write to us at hello@hopeforamericans.net.
Keeping it free
This is a reading library. For commentary, cross-references, and study tools, there are good places elsewhere, and we will happily send you to them. Here, the work is quieter: a warm room where the words can be read.
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