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2024

BiblePix 5.0: many Improvements

Peter Vollmar has published BiblePix 5.0 with many improvements for functionality and layout.

2024-07-01 • HSteeb

New: Modern Greek "Filos Pergamos Bible"

The Word 2022 is available in Modern Greek.

2024-01-18 • HSteeb

Bible Text Updated: Neue Evangelistische Übersetzung 2024-01

The Bible text of the German Neue Evangelistische Übersetzung is now on revision 2024-01.

2024-01-16 • HSteeb

Una Parola per Oggi - Calendar Apps for Italian - NEW APP

The apps in Italian language published by Edizioni CEM have been replaced by new apps from Edizioni GBU.

2024-01-03 • HSteeb • updated 2024-02-16

2023

Bible Text Updated: Neue Evangelistische Übersetzung 2023-07

The Bible text of the German Neue Evangelistische Übersetzung is now on revision 2023-07.

2023-09-20 • HSteeb

"The Word" Page: Select Bible Shown on Top

The page "The Word" shows one selected Bible edition on top. Initially, this is a Bible edition in the language you're visiting. All other Bible editions are only shown when you click the button "Other Bible Editions". Now you can select another Bible edition shown on top.

2023-09-06 • HSteeb

The Word 2024 is available

The Word 2024 is available in 30 Bible editions.

2023-08-30 • HSteeb

"The Word" Page fine on Mobile

Read The Word on a smartphone, tablet or computer.

2023-08-30 • HSteeb

The Word Online Service Links to Language Specific Pages

The online service of bible2.net outputs The Word as HTML text, among other formats. This output contains a link to the start page of bible2.net.

Now the link targets the start page in the language of the Bible edition used, not the English start page.

2023-06-24 • HSteeb

Improved Icons of The Word Retrieved Online

Effective today, our online service that provides The Word returns a larger start page icon, and the copyright character (Unicode U+00A9) instead of a copyright icon.

2023-03-04 • HSteeb

2022

Start Page and The Word Page Reworked

The pages now show The Word with some verses from the Bible context.

2022-11-26 • HSteeb

New: Urdu Revised Version

The Word 2022 is available in the Urdu Revised Version.

2022-05-04 • HSteeb

YouTube: Prepare Bible Verses "The Word" Using ParolEdit

"The Word" by bible2.net features two complementary Bible verses for each day of the year, in many languages and Bible editions.

The video explains the web page "ParolEdit" used by team members to prepare the Bible verses.

2022-01-08 • HSteeb

New: Vietnamese "Kinh Thánh Tiếng Việt (1934)"

The Word 2022 is available in Vietnamese.

2022-01-06 • HSteeb

2021

New: Bíblia Livre em português

The Word 2022 is available in Portuguese.

2021-12-22 • HSteeb

The Word 2022 is Coming

The Word 2022 is available in 26 Bible editions, more are being prepared.

2021-09-29 • HSteeb

The Word on Websites from Norway and Denmark

Links to websites that show The Word.

2021-09-04 • HSteeb

YouTube: Enter Cross-reference for "The Word"

The video explains how you can suggest the Bible references Psalm 30,6 and James 4,15 as cross-references.

2021-07-27 • HSteeb

YouTube: Bibelverse "Das Wort" vorbereiten mit ParolEdit (German language)

A new YouTube video explains in German language how to use the "ParolEdit" page on our website, for editing the daily Bible verses.

2021-07-26 • HSteeb

Falam Chin Bible online

You can read the Falam Chin Bible on our website. The verses of The Word have hyperlinks to the Bible text.

2021-03-17 • HSteeb

Portuguese Bíblia Livre online

You can read the Portuguese Bíblia Livre on our website. The verses of The Word have hyperlinks to the Bible text.

2021-03-17 • HSteeb

Encouraging feedback for the Falam Chin Bible

"We write a new history, today!"

2021-03-10 • HSteeb

The Word for Falam Chin

The Word 2021 is available for Falam Chin, from the Chin Standard Bible (Bible Thainghlim) by Bibles International

2021-02-13 • HSteeb • updated 2021-02-15

2020

New: Portuguese Bíblia Livre

For 2021, The Word is available in Portuguese!

2020-12-30 • HSteeb

The Word 2021 is Coming

The Word 2021 is already available in over 20 Bible editions, more are being prepared.

2020-12-23 • HSteeb

Some Websites showing The Word

You can integrate The Word in your website, using a HTML snippet, or a plug-in for your Content Management System.

Here are some pages that show The Word.

2020-10-21 • HSteeb

The Word Cross-references now Free to Share and Use

Starting with 2021, the verse pairs published as The Word are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

2020-10-05 • HSteeb

The Word 2021 Starting with 6 Languages

The Word 2021 is already available in 6 Bible editions, more are being prepared.

2020-10-05 • HSteeb

Cugetarea Zilei – The Word 2020 in Romanian (Cornilescu 2014)

The Word 2020 is available in Romanian, using the Cornilescu Anniversary Edition Bible 2014.

2020-03-21 • HSteeb

2019

Una Parola per Oggi – Italian Calendar App for Android and iOS

Ready for 2020: in Italian language, for Android and iOS – read a daily Bible verse with a short devotion, published by Edizioni CEM.

2019-11-21 • HSteeb

The Word 2020 is Coming

The Word 2020 is already available in 4 Bible editions, more are being prepared.

2019-09-14 • HSteeb

German Conference gottdigital.de - Project Bible 2.0 Participates

The German conference GOTT@DIGITAL will take place for the second time end of September 2019. Two of us will join and maybe present our project Bible 2.0!

2019-09-10 • HSteeb

Like Buttons for The Word

The Word on our start page now has buttons to vote for "like" and "dislike".

2019-06-13 • HSteeb

Una Parola per Oggi - Calendar Apps for Italian

In Italian language, for Android and iOS: read a daily Bible verse with a short devotion, published by Edizioni CEM. The printed version has reached the 50th edition!

2019-01-23 • HSteeb • updated 2019-11-21

Full Bible in Uzbek Officially Approved

In June 2017, the unthinkable happened: the first full Uzbek Bible was launched in the capital Tashkent, officially approved by the Uzbek government. We happily present The Word from this Bible.

2019-01-02 • HSteeb

Urdu: The Word no more Available

Unfortunately, The Word 2019 is no more available for Urdu.

2019-01-01 • HSteeb

2018

The Word for Amazon Kindle

The Word for 2019 is available for Amazon Kindle on our download page.

2018-12-24 • HSteeb

The Word 2019

2018-12-13 • HSteeb

Privacy Policy

At May 25, 2018 the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect.

2018-05-24 • HSteeb

2017

bible2.net supports https

The bible2.net site now supports HTTPS, the internet standard for encrypted data transmission.

2017-06-03 • HSteeb

Portuguese Almeida Revista E Atualizada – Permission Terminated

Unfortuately, permission to publish The Word using the Portuguese Almeida Revista E Atualizada terminated 2017-03-16.

2017-03-20 • HSteeb • updated 2017-04-03

2016

Missing Bibles for The Word 2017

For some Bible editions, The Word is no more available in 2017.

2016-12-31 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a good start with God in the new year!

The Word 2017 is available in 20 Bible editions (as of 2016-12-24). We still look for help with 9 further Bible editions.

2016-12-24 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2017 for Turkish, Ozbek, Chinese (Simplified)

The Word 2017 is available now also for Turkish, Ozbek and Chinese (Simplified).

2016-12-14 • HSteeb

The Word 2017 for 10 Bible Editions

The Word 2017 is available in 10 Bible editions so far.

2016-11-01 • HSteeb

The Word 2017 Arrives

The Word 2017 is available in the first Bible editions for German, Italian and Traditional Chinese.

2016-10-08 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 for Farsi

The Word 2016 is available for Farsi.

2016-05-11 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016 in Urdu!

The Word 2016 is available in Urdu!

2016-03-30 • HSteeb • updated 2016-03-31

The Word 2016 now in Danish!

The Word 2016 is available in Danish!

2016-02-06 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 for Gaelic, Hebrew and Ozbek

The Word 2016 is available for Gaelic, Hebrew and Ozbek.

2016-01-06 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016 not in Danish and Thai

The Word 2016 is no more available in Danish and (so far) in Thai.

2016-01-06 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

2015

The Word 2016 for Spanish

The Word 2016 is available for Spanish.

2015-12-30 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 for Portuguese and Turkish

The Word 2016 is available for Portuguese and Turkish.

2015-12-29 • HSteeb

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a good start with God in the new year!

2015 brought further Bible editions for The Word. 2016 will see some more changes.

2015-12-23 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016 for Arabic, Kiswahili and the German Bibel für Schwoba

The Word 2016 is available for Arabic, Kiswahili and the German Bibel für Schwoba.

2015-12-01 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 for Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional) and the German Hoffnung für Alle

The Word 2016 is available for Hungarian, Chinese (Traditional) and the German Hoffnung für Alle.

2015-10-31 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 In the Works

The Word 2016 is already available for 8 Bible editions; 16 more are being prepared (including a new one - the German Neue evangelistische Übersetzung).

2015-10-24 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016 for French, Italian and the German Leonberger Bible

The Word 2016 is available for French, Italian and the German Leonberger Bible.

2015-09-24 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 For Afrikaans, Russian and Polish

The Word 2016 is available for Afrikaans, Russian and Polish.

2015-09-02 • HSteeb

The Word 2017 Waits For Contributions

At home or on the way - reflect on Bible verses and assign cross-referenced Bible sayings for The Word 2017 - in the new BibleStudio.

2015-07-23 • HSteeb

The Word 2016 Is Available!

The Word 2016 is available for the English Standard Version and the German Schlachter 2000.

2015-07-20 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016: Where Are My Dates?

Adding dates to the list of sayings for 2016 and cross-checking in some Bible editions brings us to Emacs and SQL.

2015-07-15 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

How Is The Booklet Created?

This article describes how I create the monthly bilingual booklet to print.

2015-07-13 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2016: “Sayings Clusters”

Until June, visitors of the BibleStudio contributed cross-referenced Bible sayings for The Word 2016. Now preparation goes on: first I selected pairs from the suggested cross-references.

2015-07-11 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2015 for Arabic

The Word 2015 is available for Arabic!

2015-06-20 • HSteeb

The Word For Windows Phone?

From an email: "The Word... as WindowsPhone App would be super. Perhaps a miracle happens." Is there any programmer of WindowsPhone Apps out there to help?

2015-05-23 • HSteeb • updated 2015-06-13

BibleStudio In English

At home or on the way - reflect on Bible verses and assign cross-referenced Bible sayings for The Word 2016 - in the new BibleStudio.

2015-03-14 • HSteeb

The Word 2015 for Portuguese

The Word 2015 is available for Portuguese

2015-01-12 • HSteeb

The Word 2015 for Irish (Gaelic)

Irish (also known as "Gaelic") is spoken as a first language only by a minority of Irish people. The Word 2015 is available for Irish!

2015-01-06 • HSteeb

2014

New: Danish Bibelen in The Word 2015

With kind permission of Det Danske Bibelselskab, The Word 2015 is available in the Danish Bible edition "Bibelen".

2014-12-30 • HSteeb

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a good start with God in the new year!

2014 brought new software (Apps for Android and iPhone) and further Bible editions for The Word. 2015 will see some more changes.

2014-12-24 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word Android App Updated!

The Word for Android app has been updated for 2015, available in the Google store...

2014-12-23 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

Update: The Word Widget 0.4 for WordPress – More Compatible

Version 0.4 also works on servers that restrict retrieval of data from other websites.

2014-12-23 • HSteeb • updated 2014-12-30

The Word 2015: Chinese (Simplified), French, Kiswahili, Polish, Turkish

The Word 2015 is available for 5 more Bible editions in Chinese (Simplified), French, Kiswahili, Polish and Turkish.

2014-12-20 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2015: Afrikaans, Hoffnung für Alle, Chinese (Traditional), Reina-Valera

The Word 2015 is available for 4 more Bible editions in Afrikaans, Chinese, Spanish and German.

2014-11-01 • HSteeb

The Word 2015 Is Here!

The Word 2015 is available for 5 Bible editions in English, German, Italian, Hungarian and Russian language.

2014-10-06 • HSteeb

The Bible – no idea?

Saul, later Paul, the Apostle - is this the same Saul who was king over Israel?

Joshua - the son of a Catholic nun?

In the US, Christians talk about a "Famine Of Bible Knowledge" and "Biblical Illiteracy".

2014-08-08 • HSteeb • updated 2022-05-18

The Word and News from Bible 2.0 in one news feed

You can read The Word for each day and news from Bible 2.0 in your favorite feed reader (for “atom” syndication format).

2014-04-22 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

News from Bible 2.0 now available as news feed

You can read news from Bible 2.0 in your favorite feed reader (for "atom" syndication format).

2014-03-08 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

The Word Widget for WordPress: Version 0.3 with Daily Online Retrieval

Version 0.3 lets you select the Bible edition in the WordPress dashboard, gets the sayings for the selected Bible edition once a day remotely from bible2.net and shows the sayings of the day in a WordPress widget area.

2014-02-22 • HSteeb

Easy to Read and Plain Writing

"Easy to Read" and "Plain Writing" are movements to write texts in a way that the texts are easy to read. One of the rules is about sentences and lines. The Word of Project Bible 2.0 obeys a similar rule from its beginning.

2014-02-15 • HSteeb

The Word Widget for WordPress: Version 0.2 with Online Retrieval

Version 0.2 lets you select the Bible edition in the WordPress dashboard, gets the sayings for the selected Bible edition once for a whole year remotely from bible2.net, stores it in the uploads/ folder and shows the sayings of the day in a WordPress widget area.

2014-02-10 • HSteeb

Join Us: How You Could Help

A collection of tasks and ideas at hand...

2014-02-03 • HSteeb

The Word Widget for WordPress

On your WordPress site, show “The Word” in a widget: two selected Bible sayings for each day, available in over 10 languages, from an XML file you download from bible2.net. (read more)

2014-01-25 • HSteeb

The Word for iOS: now all bible translations are available for download

The new version of iLosungen (Version 2.0.2) now has the ability to download all different bible translations that are available for “the word”. Once the translation is downloaded the application doesn’t need a connection to the internet anymore.

2014-01-15 • HSteeb • updated 2024-05-21

Language Selection Corrected

When you read different pages in our website, or revisit the pages later, the pages are shown again in the language you selected in the "Language selection" page. This already worked - sometimes...

2014-01-11 • HSteeb

The Word Android App

The Word is no available as an Android app. You can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.reiss.bible2net.theword&hl=en. The application doesn’t need a connection to the internet once it is downloaded. For new content respective updates will be provided. Many languagest can be displayed.

2014-01-08 • admin • updated 2024-05-21

The Word 2014 for Irish (Gaelic)

Irish (also known as “Gaelic”) is spoken as a first language only by a minority of Irish people (see Wikipedia article). The Word 2014 is now available for Irish. You can download it in several of our applications, or view it fullscreen.

2014-01-01 • HSteeb

2013

The Word 2014 for Uzbek

Peter from Switzerland prepared The Word 2014 for Uzbek (Cyrillic), using the Bible text from the Muqaddas Kitob Tarjima qilish Instituti. By automatic conversion, we also provide The Word 2014 for Uzbek in Latin script. Ey birodarlar, sizlardan o‘tinib so‘raymiz: beboshlarni ogohlantiring, jur’atsizlarga dalda bering, zaiflarga yordam ko‘rsating, hammaga sabr–toqatli bo‘ling. 1 Salonikaliklar 5:14

2013-12-30 • HSteeb

Booklets in Two Languages Available for January 2014

Would you like to improve your knowledge of a foreign language? Or do you know a person from abroad who would be pleased to read God’s word in their language, combined with English? Consider our booklets with The Word in two languages! They are now available for January 2014 for download and printing. For English,... (mehr...)

2013-12-24 • HSteeb

The Word 2014 for Portuguese, Turkish and Hebrew

The Word 2014 has been prepared by Juraci and Peter from Switzerland for Portuguese, Turkish and Hebrew: Portuguese from the “Almeida Revista E Atualizada” by the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil: Consolai os desanimados, amparai os fracos. 1 Tessalonicenses 5,14 Turkish from the “Kutsal Kitap 2001” by Kitabi Mukaddes Sirketi and Translation Trust: Boş gezenleri uyarın,... (mehr...)

2013-12-23 • HSteeb

New Website Layout – Mobile Ready

The Bible 2.0 website now comes in a new layout, ready for mobile devices and with an integrated news system.

2013-12-21 • HSteeb

The Word 2014 from the Hoffnung für Alle

Hoffnung für Alle is a contemporary Bible edition, one of the top-selling books in German language. The Word 2014 is available for download in these pages and for online retrieval in your installed viewer application.

2013-12-21 • admin