Copyright
English Standard Version (ESV)
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language. Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
ESV text provided via the esv.org API.
King James Version (KJV)
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The Berean Standard Bible was dedicated to the public domain in 2023 and is free to use without restriction. Text obtained via eBible.org.
World English Bible (WEB)
The World English Bible is dedicated to the public domain. Text obtained via eBible.org.
Audio narration
Narration for the King James Version and the Icelandic edition is generated by open-source text-to-speech models - Kokoro (Apache-2.0) and Piper (MIT) - either on your device or pre-rendered by us and streamed as plain audio files. These synthetic voices are not affiliated with any publisher. The King James narration is of a public-domain text and is itself free to use; the Icelandic narration is a recording of CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed text (see below) and is made available under that same licence.
ESV audio narration is provided by Crossway under the ESV API terms above and is streamed, not stored.
Icelandic - New Testament & Psalms
The Icelandic text is Biblica® Opna Lifandi Orð - Nýja testamentið og Sálmarnir (Open Icelandic Living New Testament and Psalms), © 1979, 1995 by Biblica, Inc., used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). It covers the New Testament and Psalms, and has been reformatted verse-by-verse for display in this app without altering the text. Obtained via eBible.org.