Bible and text sources

No other translation is offered. Where a translation is copyrighted, it can only be included once a written licence exists, and its required attribution would appear here with it.

The King James Version in Journey 2 Christ is the standardised 1769 text. It was taken from a public dataset and checked before any of it was committed.

Every verse was compared against a second, unrelated dataset by a different author in a different format. Across ten books spanning law, poetry, prophecy, gospel and epistle, 8,374 verses were compared and 175 differed, all of them orthographic variants between editions of the King James itself, such as “throughly” and “thoroughly”. No verse differed in meaning.

Nothing in this application generates, paraphrases or completes Scripture. If a passage cannot be loaded, the reader says so rather than showing anything in its place.

The King James Version is in the public domain, and that is how it is treated here. There is one qualification worth stating plainly rather than glossing over.

Letters patent issued by King James carry no expiry date. In practice this means that printing this translation in the United Kingdom, or importing printed copies into the United Kingdom, requires permission. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Collins hold those printing rights.

That restriction concerns printing and importing physical copies. It is recorded here because the source we took the text from states it, and repeating it is more honest than describing the translation as public domain worldwide without qualification.

Journey 2 Christ also carries the King James Apocrypha, in a library of its own. It is presented separately from the 66-book Protestant Bible the application uses, and it is never mixed into Scripture: not in the reader, not in search results, not in a daily passage, and not in any journey step.

The text is the 1769 standardised edition with Apocrypha, taken from eBible.org, whose own rights statement is the one quoted above about letters patent. The download was recorded with its size and checksum at the time it was retrieved.

Read about the Apocrypha and how different Christian traditions have understood it.

There is no audio Bible in Journey 2 Christ today. Recording rights are licensed separately from text rights, so a translation being public domain says nothing about who owns a particular reading of it.

When narration is licensed, the provider and the terms will be named on this page before the feature appears in the application.