About Bible Versions

Four translations and an audio edition came with the app: the English Standard Version (ESV), the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), the King James Version (KJV), the American Standard Version (ASV), and ESV + Audio. All of them work offline.

Copyright

Each edition carries its own copyright notice, worded by its publisher. The app stores that notice beside the text itself, so what you see at the foot of a passage is the publisher's own wording rather than a summary of it.

Menu → About Bible Versions lists every edition with its notice in full. The notice also appears at the end of each chapter you read, which is where the licence asks for it.

Public Domain And Licensed Editions

Two of the translations are in the public domain and two are used by permission. The app does not treat them differently: every edition is bundled, none is fetched, and none can be removed.

What An Export Carries

Everything you make in FerventWord App you can take out of it. What an export carries depends on what you made.

A notebook's file holds each highlight's passage, its color and the note you wrote — your words, not the verse's.

A meditation's file holds the meditation itself, including the words of the passage you chose, with its reference and edition beside them. A passage you set aside deliberately is your work, and it leaves with the rest of it.

What no file carries is Scripture you did not choose — a chapter, a range you never picked, or a version's text as a whole. Those are the publisher's, licensed for reading in this app.

Choosing A Version

Settings → Versions holds your Default Version and lets each bookmark keep one of its own. Using Versions describes how that works.

ESV + Audio

ESV + Audio is the same ESV text, with a recording read by David Cochran Heath. Choose it for a bookmark or as your Default Version, and Listen appears in the reading screen's more menu — and on a plan reading, where a day with several passages lets you pick one.

Settings → Versions holds Play Audio Passage — anything from once to ten times, or until you stop it. Stopping, or choosing another passage, ends it whatever that says. Audio keeps playing when you lock the screen, and you can pause it from the lock screen or your headphones.

The text of that edition is on your device like every other one. Only the recording is streamed, so listening needs a connection and reading does not. Anything you highlight stays exactly where you put it if you switch between ESV and ESV + Audio: they are the same words.