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New International Version 2011 (NIV)
The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.
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New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB)
NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® NASB® Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977,1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation A Corporation Not for Profit La Habra, CA All Rights Reserved www.lockman.org
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New Amharic Standard Version 2024 (NASV)
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Amplified Bible (AMP)
Amplified® Bible Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org
Published by The Lockman Foundation
The Passion Translation (In Review) (TPT)
The Passion Translation® is a registered trademark of Passion & Fire Ministries, Inc. Copyright © 2020 Passion & Fire Ministries, Inc.
Published by BroadStreet Publishing
Amharic
Amharic Bible (1962), New Testament
copyright © 1962, 2003 United Bible Societies. Revised Amharic Bible in XML (2003). Printed version by United Bible Societies (C)1962. E-Text in transliterated ASCII format by Lapsley/Brooks Foundation 1994. Unicode UTF-8 transformation and XML-tagging by Dirk Röckmann 2003 (www.nt-text.net). With kind permission of the Bible Society of Ethiopia. Every non-commercial work using this data in any form must fully include this copyright statement! Every commercial use of parts or the complete data in any form needs written permission of the Bible Society of Ethiopia!
The eBible.org e-text is missing some verses. Those (marked ◦ in the reader) were restored from WordProject’s copy of the same 1962 translation, which it makes available for non-profit use.
Public domain
- World English Bible (WEB) — eBible.org
- Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. Dedicated to the public domain.
- King James Version (KJV) — public domain outside the United Kingdom (Crown letters patent apply within the UK)
- American Standard Version (ASV) and Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) — eBible.org
Greek, lexicon and commentaries
SBL Greek New Testament (CC BY 4.0) · Greek tagging and Abbott-Smith lexicon from STEP Bible, Tyndale House, Cambridge (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0) · Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY) · Tyndale Open Study Notes © Tyndale House Publishers (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Commentaries of Calvin, Henry, Gill, Clarke and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (public domain), via the Free Use Bible API · The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) and Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain, for book introductions and overviews. Details in the source library.
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