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e-Sword

A free Bible study program for Windows with companion apps for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android. It offers multiple translations, Strong's numbers, commentaries, dictionaries, and parallel comparison, with many modules available at no charge.

ProvisionalBible studyBroadly evangelical
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Why this is listed

Confirmed on e-sword.net: 'absolutely free', refined over 25 years, with e-Sword for PC, e-Sword X for Mac, e-Sword HD for iPad, e-Sword LT for iPhone, and an Android app. Some premium modules are sold separately through the eStudySource store.

How to start

  1. Open e-sword.net (opens an external site) and read what Rick Meyers says about itself before you read anything else.
  2. Confirm the cost and level fit: free, intermediate, over ongoing.
  3. Note the tradition — Broadly evangelical. It will shape what you are taught, and that is worth knowing going in.
  4. Put the first session in your calendar now. The gap between reading about study and doing it is a calendar entry.

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