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About This Bible
A modern Bible app built with reverence for the ancient text and respect for your reading experience.
The Mission
This is a free Bible app built and maintained by In His Hands Ministries International. There are no ads. There is no tracking. There is no subscription. Your reading is between you and God.
Every word of the canonical Scripture is here in two trusted translations. The 22 extra-biblical works included for study are clearly labeled as such — never confused with Scripture.
The Translations
King James Version (1611/1769) — the classic Authorized Version. Beloved for its majestic English and theological precision. Public domain in the United States and most of the world. The KJV is included in full for all 66 canonical books plus 6 of the deuterocanonical books.
World English Bible (2000) — a modern English translation based on the American Standard Version of 1901, brought into contemporary language. Published into the public domain by its translators with the explicit goal of being freely shared. Also included in full for all 72 books.
The 22 Extra-Biblical Books
For two thousand years, Christians have wrestled with which writings belong in Scripture. Protestant Bibles include 66 books. Catholic Bibles include those 66 plus 7 deuterocanonical books. Orthodox Bibles include even more. And then there are the pseudepigrapha — Jewish writings of the Second Temple period that were never officially canonized, but were widely read by Jesus' contemporaries and even quoted by New Testament authors.
This app includes 22 such books — 14 from the broader Apocrypha tradition and 8 from the Pseudepigrapha — so that the curious reader can encounter what the early church, the rabbis, and the apostles themselves were reading. They are not Scripture in the Protestant sense and are clearly labeled as extra-biblical throughout the app.
Six of these books (1 Esdras, Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees) have full text bundled in. The remaining 16 are presented with introductions, scripture cross-references where the New Testament cites them (most notably Jude 1:14-15 quoting 1 Enoch), and direct links to the complete public-domain English translations hosted at sacred-texts.com.
A Note on Discernment
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21
The Apostle Paul gives us the rule. We read the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha not as Scripture but as witnesses to the world Jesus stepped into — the books on the shelf of the synagogue where He read, the language and apocalyptic imagery His listeners had marinated in for generations. They are useful for understanding context, never to be elevated above the canonical Scriptures.
Tech & Privacy
This app is a Progressive Web App (PWA). You can install it on your phone or computer with one tap and read the Bible offline anywhere — no signal required. Your bookmarks, last-read position, and translation preference are stored locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to any server. We don't even know you're here.
Source Code & Credits
The Bible text comes from the pythonbible Python package by Wesley Henderson, which bundles public-domain editions of the KJV and WEB. The application code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) was developed for In His Hands Ministries International.
For the extra-biblical texts, we are grateful to the volunteers at sacred-texts.com who have made these public-domain translations freely available for the whole world to read.
Soli Deo Gloria
This app exists for one reason: that anyone with a phone, anywhere in the world, in any economic circumstance, can read the Word of God for free, without compromise, without distraction, without surveillance, and offline if needed. To Him be all glory.