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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 three trusted public-domain translations — KJV, WEB and ASV. 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.
American Standard Version (1901) — the literal, scholarly revision of the KJV prized for accuracy. Public domain. Included in full for all 66 canonical books, with the words of Jesus in red.
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.
All 22 books are bundled in full and readable offline-ready like the rest of the Bible. The Apocrypha use the KJV 1611 text. The Pseudepigrapha use classic public-domain English translations: R.H. Charles for 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Assumption of Moses and the Apocalypse of Baruch (2 Baruch); Morfill & Charles for 2 Enoch; the 1840 English edition of Jasher; and the KJV Apocrypha for 4 Ezra (2 Esdras). Jude 1:14-15 quotes 1 Enoch 1:9, which you can read here for yourself.
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 from the menu (“Install App”), and every chapter you have opened stays readable offline. Your highlights, notes, favorites, last-read position, and translation preference are stored only in your browser. Nothing about you is sent to any server. The only exceptions are the optional AI study helpers (AI-labelled commentary and lexicon entries), which send just the passage or word you asked about to generate the answer, and the Audio Bible, which streams from the Internet Archive.
Source Code & Credits
The Bible text comes from public-domain editions of the KJV, WEB and ASV (the KJV and WEB via the pythonbible Python package by Wesley Henderson). The application code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) was developed for In His Hands Ministries International.
For the extra-biblical texts, we are grateful to the Scrollmapper project and 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.
