The King James Bible, a daily devotional and morning & evening prayer
Holy Bible: KJV Daily Verse is a free iPhone app for reading the 1769 King James Version as it was printed, with a daily promise from Spurgeon, a Scripture prayer for morning and evening, and a Bible quiz. Everything works offline, with no account.
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- 31,102verses of the 1769 KJV
- 366daily devotionals
- 732morning & evening prayers
- 612Bible quiz questions
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Read the King James Bible as it was printed
Italics for the translators’ supplied words, the words of Jesus in red, LORD in small capitals, ¶ paragraph marks, Psalm titles and the 1611 margin notes. Highlight in six colors, add notes and bookmarks, and choose from four typefaces.
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A promise for every morning
Each day pairs a King James promise with Spurgeon’s Faith’s Checkbook and a one-line takeaway you can carry into the day.
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Morning and evening prayer
A short chain of Scripture on one theme, a plain prayer, the Lord’s Prayer and a blessing. Evening prayer adds a question to look back on the day. Easter, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and other feast days get their own.
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A Bible quiz that teaches
612 questions in 204 levels, from the stories everyone knows to details for careful readers. Every answer shows its verse.
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Quiet, private, offline
No account and no sign-up. Everything is in the app, so it works on a plane, in church or at the bedside, and follows your iPhone’s dark mode for night reading.
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What is Holy Bible: KJV Daily Verse?
Holy Bible: KJV Daily Verse is a free iPhone app for reading the King James Bible, with a daily devotional, morning and evening prayer and a Bible quiz. All of its content is included in the app, so it works without an internet connection and needs no account.
Which King James text does the app use?
The 1769 standard text of the Authorized King James Version, the text most KJV Bibles print today, as published by Cambridge. It keeps the features of the printed page: the translators’ italics, the words of Christ in red, LORD and GOD in small capitals, the ¶ paragraph marks, the Psalm titles and the 1611 margin notes.
Why are some words in italics in the KJV?
The 1611 translators printed in italics the words they supplied to make the English read naturally, words that have no direct equivalent in the Hebrew or Greek. They are not for emphasis. A well-known example is 2 Samuel 21:19, where “the brother of” is supplied before “Goliath the Gittite”.
Why is LORD sometimes in small capitals?
In the Old Testament, LORD in small capitals stands for the Hebrew divine name YHWH, and GOD in small capitals stands for YHWH where it follows the word Lord (Adonai), as in “Lord GOD”. “Lord” in ordinary type translates Adonai or the Greek Kyrios. The app and this site keep that distinction.
What do the ¶ marks mean?
The pilcrow ¶ marks the start of a new paragraph in the 1611 printing. Printed KJV Bibles carry them only as far as Acts chapter 20, and so does this text; they are not added after that point.