I don’t make any money from the blog posts on this website, and all my quotations of copyrighted works are used for criticism or educational purposes, and therefore fall under fair use. As such, my inclusion of the copyright info for the works I quote most often on this site is mostly to enable you to fact-check me.
Bible Versions Used
- Scripture quotations marked (2020 NASB) are taken from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org.
- Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are taken from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
- Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
- Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV®, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
- Scripture quotations marked (1995 NASB) are taken from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org.
- Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version®, copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
- Scripture quotations marked (HNV) are taken from the World Messianic Bible, a.k.a., the Hebrew Names Version.
- Scripture quotations marked (ASV) are taken from the 1901 American Standard Version.
- Scripture quotations marked (YLT) are taken from Young’s Literal Translation, published in 1862, most recently revised in 1898.
- Scripture quotations marked (DBY) are taken from the 1890 Darby Translation.
- Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from the 1769 King James Version. Scripture quotations marked (1611 KJV) are taken from the 1611 King James Version.
- Scripture quotations marked (LES) are taken from the Lexham English Septuagint, 1st Edition. Copyright 2019 Lexham Press. www.lexhampress.com.
- Scripture quotations marked (NETS) are taken from A New English Translation of the Septuagint, ©2007 by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Freely available online at https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/.
- Scripture quotations marked (BLXX) are taken from the 1851 edition of Brenton’s Septuagint Translation, freely available online at www.ebible.org/eng-Brenton.
- Scripture quotations marked (NA28) are taken from Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th Revised Edition, edited by Barbara and Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger in cooperation with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Münster/Westphalia, © 2012 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission.
- Scripture quotations marked (TR) are taken from Robert Estienne’s (Stephanus’) edition of the Textus Receptus, published in 1550.
- Scripture quotations marked (LXX) are taken from Septuaginta, ed. A. Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935; repr. in 9th ed., 1971).
For non-commercial use only. - Scripture quotations marked (WLC) are taken from the Westminster Leningrad Codex, freely available online at www.tanach.us (build 26.0). This is a digitized version of the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete manuscript of the Masoretic Text, dating to A.D. 1008-1009.