1. Bibles
Verses are never changed. Where Bibles number verses differently (the Psalms in the Douay-Rheims, for example), each reference follows its own Bible’s numbering.
| Edition | Language | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berean Standard Bible (BSB) | English | Dedicated to the public domain on 30 April 2023 | eBible.org |
| King James Version (KJV) | English | Public domain; not offered in the United Kingdom, where the Crown holds rights in it | eBible.org |
| World English Bible (WEB), in its edition that prints “LORD” | English | Public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org, used here for its unmodified text | eBible.org |
| World English Bible, British Edition (WEBBE) | English | Public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org, used here for its unmodified text | eBible.org |
| World English Bible, Catholic Edition | English, Catholic | Public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org, used here for its unmodified text | eBible.org |
| Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 American edition) | English, Catholic | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Reina-Valera 1909 | Spanish | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Almeida Revista e Corrigida, Lisbon 1911 | Portuguese | Public domain | Project Gutenberg’s edition, with its name and branding removed |
| Louis Segond 1910 | French | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Luther Bible 1912 | German | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Riveduta 1927 (Luzzi) | Italian | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Statenvertaling | Dutch | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Petrus Canisius translation, 1939 | Dutch, Catholic | Public domain; not offered in the United States until 2035 | eBible.org |
| Russian Synodal Translation | Russian, Orthodox | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Russian Synodal Translation, with the deuterocanonical books | Russian, Orthodox | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Kulish/Puluj Bible 1905 | Ukrainian | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Gdańsk Bible, 1881 edition | Polish | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Wujek Bible, 1923 edition | Polish, Catholic | Public domain | Wikisource |
| Kralice Bible, 1613 | Czech | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Revised Károli Bible, 1908 | Hungarian | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Romanian Orthodox Bible 1914, Holy Synod edition | Romanian, Orthodox | Public domain by age (1914) | Wikisource |
| Daničić–Karadžić Bible (Cyrillic) | Serbian (Cyrillic), Orthodox | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Daničić–Karadžić Bible (Latin script) | Serbian (Latin script), Orthodox | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Vamvas Bible, 1850 | Greek | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Glück Bible, 8th edition 1898 | Latvian | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Stritar New Testament and Psalms, 1882 | Slovenian; New Testament and Psalms | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Belarusian New Testament 1931 | Belarusian; New Testament | Public domain; not offered in the United States until 2027 | Wikisource |
| Finnish Biblia 1776 | Finnish | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Swedish Bible 1917 | Swedish | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Danish Bible, OT 1871 + NT 1907 | Danish | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Smith–Van Dyck Arabic Bible | Arabic | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Modern Hebrew Bible (Masoretic OT + Delitzsch NT) | Hebrew | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Old Persian Version 1895 | Persian | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Chinese Union Version 1919 (Shen edition) | Chinese (Traditional) | Public domain | Wikisource |
| Japanese Literary Bible (Bungo-yaku; OT 1887, NT 1917) | Japanese | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Raguet New Testament, 1910 | Japanese, Catholic; New Testament | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Vietnamese Bible 1925 (Cadman) | Vietnamese | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Tagalog Bible 1905 | Tagalog | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Cebuano Bible 1917, Bugna version | Cebuano | Public domain | Christian Classics Ethereal Library |
| Judson Burmese Bible 1840 | Burmese | Public domain | eBible.org |
| Malayalam Sathyavedapusthakam 1910 | Malayalam | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
| Clementine Vulgate | Latin, Catholic | Public domain | CrossWire Bible Society |
The Bibles you can download in your country are listed in the app, under More → Settings → Bibles.
2. Why no NIV or ESV
Modern translations such as the NIV, the ESV and the NLT need licences. The Berean Standard Bible is a modern English Bible that is free for everyone, and the King James Version, the World English Bible and the Douay-Rheims are there for those who love them.
3. Prayers
Traditional prayers are quoted as public-domain editions print them, each from a named edition. The English ones come from:
- The Book of Common Prayer of 1928 (United States). The English book of 1662 isn’t used, and the few 1928 prayers that read word for word as it does aren’t shown in the United Kingdom, where the Crown holds rights in that book.
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (1888), which also gives the Rosary its order and the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries.
- A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (the Baltimore Catechism, 1885).
- The Raccolta, in Ambrose St John’s translation (1910).
- St Augustine’s Confessions in E. B. Pusey’s translation (1838).
- Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry, translated by Kuno Meyer (1913).
- The New-England Primer, in Paul Leicester Ford’s edition (1899).
- The Churchman’s Prayer Manual, compiled by G. R. Bullock-Webster (1913).
The Luminous Mysteries are named as Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (2002) names them. Prayers in other languages come from named public-domain editions too, listed in the app. Psalms and the other prayers from scripture are shown in your own Bible, from the list above.
4. This website
- Fonts: EB Garamond, Newsreader and Schibsted Grotesk, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from this site.
- Icons: Material Symbols by Google, under the Apache License 2.0.
5. In the app
The app lists every Bible, every prayer’s source and every open-source licence under More → Settings → About. Questions about a source: support@versedove.com.