We have had the privilege of talking to thousands of people over the years who have been blessed by Blue Letter Bible. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to talk to every single one of our millions of users. So instead, we set up the next best thing! If God has used our ministry's tools and resources to bless your time in His Word, we humbly ask that you consider leaving us a brief video message. It is immensely encouraging for the staff here to listen to how God is using their work. We also may use it in a future video compilation to share with everyone.

All you have to do is go to our special Testimonial.to page. Once you get here, you will be given instructions on what exactly the video should include. You can either record the video from the website itself (using your computer's webcam or your phone camera) or upload a video file instead. Upon uploading the file, you will then need to fill out some information before everything is finalized. After that, you will be given the option to share your testimonial via social media if you so wish.

We again want to thank all of you for your support of BLB! Whether you have used the site for twenty years, have been a long-time donor, or just recently found out about us, everything we are able to do is because of you. Our mission has never been about receiving recognition or seeking after accolades. It has always been, and always will be, to provide resources and tools that everyone can use to deepen their study of God's Word.

Our team is immensely excited to announce that we now have the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) available on our site and mobile apps. We are so blessed by our partnerships with Three Sixteen Publishing and The Lockman Foundation, who gave us permission to provide our users with this resource for free.

For those who may not know, the LSB is a recent translation that was completed by a selection of professors from The Master's University and Seminary, overseen by Pastor John MacArthur. This version focuses on the precise, literal translation of the original biblical texts. This is achieved through the consistent translation of individual words, accounting for the various nuances and differences they may have.

Here is an excerpt from the LSB's foreword that explains the team's principles of translation:

The Legacy Standard Bible has worked to uphold the style and translational choices of the NASB as much as possible. Even more, it has endeavored to follow through on the NASB's stated intent to be true to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. While the interpreter, teacher, and pastor have the goal of understanding what the text means, the translator is to provide them with what the text says. Consistently, the goal of this translation is to be a window into the original text. Within that goal, this revision has focused upon accuracy and consistency. It has checked that words and grammar have been carried over properly. It also established rules for the consistent translation of terms within their various nuances. This allows the reader to more easily reconstruct what the original texts said. It also helps the reader more easily trace the flow of argument within a text, identify when the same word is used in another passage, and make connections between texts.

This Bible version is a true labor of love on the part of the translators. Their desire to bring as literal a translation as possible from the original texts shows an intense reverence for God's Word and a passionate desire that it be rightly divided. If you want to learn more about the origins of the LSB, you can visit their official website. Or, if you would like to hear directly from the translators themselves, you can watch their round table discussion on the official LSB YouTube channel.

We have been dedicated to improving and expanding our offering of biblical language resources, and are excited to announce the following additions.

New Inline Interlinear

An interlinear is a language tool that connects the English-translated word(s) to the word(s) in the original texts. Traditionally, our users have been able to access a vertical interlinear for each verse from our Bible page, one verse at a time. While this has been an immense blessing and one of our most valued tools, we understand that it is not the most conducive to reading and studying. That is where the inline interlinear comes in.

Now, you can examine the original languages in a comfortable, horizontal format; Greek from left to right and Hebrew from right to left. This can be viewed one verse at a time from the Bible page or expanded to view an entire chapter at once. Moreover, the parts of speech are color-coded to make them easily identifiable. For example, when you are reading John 1:1, you will notice that the words "in" and "with" have a sage green button with "PREP." This correctly denotes them as prepositions, as seen in this screenshot:

If you want to learn more about this tool and some of the design challenges and history behind it, you can watch our announcement video

New Biblical Language Resources Page

In the more than twenty-five years that our ministry has been on the web, our Greek and Hebrew resources have consistently been the most popular aspect of our site. Traditionally, getting to these tools required you to navigate to several different locations on the site. Now, we have placed them all under a single section for quick and easy access. If you navigate to or click on the "Study" button on the top toolbar, you will find a new section below "Bible Reference" titled "Biblical Language Resources."

Within this page, we have included links to landing pages for our inline interlinear, lexicon resources, Greek and Hebrew grammars, concordances and Greek inflection tool. Not only that, but we have also updated our grammars so that they are available in both HTML and PDF format. We saw this update as necessary to our users, allowing for a quicker and more streamlined experience accessing this fantastic resource.