BLUE LETTER BIBLE

Blue Letter Bible’s ultimate goal is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus by making the written Word of God available to all for free. Since our ministry began its journey to spread the Word of God in 1996, we have created dozens of in-depth study tools, compiled a vast library of theological resources, and developed mobile apps to accomplish this mission.

Blue Letter Bible’s strategies for accomplishing its goals include providing:
• The Bible in multiple languages and translations
• A vast and growing library of biblical exposition in audio, text, and video format from nearly fifty different authors
• Bible dictionaries
• Greek and Hebrew language tools
• Bible-wide cross-referencing tool
• The Blue Letter Bible website on CD-ROMs (for those who do not have Internet)
• A website optimized for mobile devices and apps for mobile devices with the IOS and Android operating systems
• The Blue Letter Bible Institute, BLBi (www.blbi.org) - another free tool from Blue Letter Bible includes 10 courses
• ScriptureMark (www.scripturemark.org), a digital Bible study tool enabling users to reformat and mark up Bible passages

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Blue Letter Bible is user-supported. God has blessed our ministry with a base of support from thousands of individual users. Blue Letter Bible also receives support from dozens of churches.
For many years, our ministry has partnered with a number of other ministries. These partners continue to help Blue Letter Bible gain awareness, expand its reach, increase its number of users and provide additional commentaries and study tools.

Blue Letter Bible has come a long way since 1996. The current user base is approximately ten million with over five hundred million-page views annually. We are now approaching a million pages of content on our primary website including:
• 20 versions of the Bible
• Hundreds of audio and video commentaries from more than 50 authors
• Bible reference tools including encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Greek and Hebrew language tools
• Maps
• Timelines
• Music
• Topical indexes
• Charts and outlines
• Theological resources.

The Blue Letter Bible Institute (BLBi) was created in February of 2003. With over sixty thousand students from all over the world, our student base has grown significantly since the institute’s creation. Our course catalog includes over ten courses on the subjects of the doctrine of the Christian faith, biblical exposition, Christian life and practice, and apologetics and worldviews.

Our mobile apps were released in 2010 (for Apple devices) and 2015 (Android). They have gained massive user bases since their release, with IOS having over a million and Android over half a million. The functionality of both is being increased to one day potentially match the website in content and usability. We have also optimized the Blue Letter Bible website for mobile devices.

In 2019 we released our Greek inflection tool for increased depth to original language studies and our digital Bible markup tool, ScriptureMark.

In the future, as resources become available, Blue Letter Bible would like to translate a significant portion of the site into other languages, develop an app for ScriptureMark and increase the number of commentaries offered.