BSB Front Matter

The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB
Printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by Bible Hub

Published by Bible Hub
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.

This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain. Free resources and databases are available at BereanBible.com.

Licensing of the text is not necessary, but it is available if you wish to receive updates as new materials are released. See any of these Berean Bible websites for further information:

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www.InterlinearBible.com .................................... Berean Interlinear Bible (BIB)

www.LiteralBible.com ............................................... Berean Literal Bible (BLB)

www.BereanBible.com ......................................... Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

www.MajorityBible.com .................................... Majority Standard Bible (MSB)

www.ReadersBible.com ........................................... Reader’s Bible

www.EmphasizedBible.com ................................... Emphasized Bible

www.AnnotatedBible.com ....................................... Annotated Bible

www.AudioBible.org .................................................. Audio Bible

Preface

_Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians,
for they received the message with great eagerness
and examined the Scriptures every day
to see if these teachings were true. – Acts 17:11

The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) is a modern English translation of the Holy Bible, effective for public reading, study, memorization, and evangelism. Based on the best available manuscripts and sources, each word is connected back to the Greek or Hebrew text to produce a transparent text that can be studied for its root meanings.

The BSB represents a single tier of the Berean Bible. This printing contains the full BSB text, footnotes, section headings, and cross references. Additional components, including translation tables, lexicons, outlines, and summaries, are free online and in a variety of apps.

The Berean Bible Translation Committee has employed an open process where translation tables are freely available and all comments are welcomed and considered. These sources may also be downloaded and shared freely. Please see the Berean Bible website for a full description of the translation committee and process.

We pray that this text will enable readers to connect with God’s Word to study it, memorize it, share it, and proclaim it. We are inspired by the model of the early Christian church:

_After this letter has been read among you,
make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans,
and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea. – Colossians 4:16

The Scriptures belonged to the churches and were meant to be examined, copied, and distributed. The committee hopes to follow this example by sharing all the resources with which we have been entrusted. Just as Paul encouraged the churches to pass on his letters, the Berean Bible is intended to be offered freely in websites, apps, software, and various text and audio formats.

Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic Sources and Abbreviations

WH Westcott and Hort, New Testament in the Original Greek

BYZ The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform

GOC Greek Orthodox Church, New Testament

TR Scrivener’s Textus Receptus
Stephanus Textus Receptus

DSS Dead Sea Scrolls

MT Hebrew Masoretic Text: Westminster Leningrad Codex
Hebrew Masoretic Text: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

LXX Greek OT Septuagint: Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta
Greek OT Septuagint: Swete's Septuagint

SP Samaritan Pentateuch