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I am going to go through a course of bible study, and the used bible version is NIV. Sometime, but rarely King James version is used, but that is very unlikely. I have been searching for a week for a good free program that lets me read the bible digitaly on my ibook.

I came across these: but it has tons of versions that i have never heard of but it dosen't have NIV! So, is there one? Even just a txt file?

Currently i use but it's only accesible online and i don't want to copy and pase every chapter in the bible so. Any recomendations? The best Bible Software available is a Mac-only app. Its called Accordance. It may be more than you're looking for, but you can get the NIV as well as just about any translation you want (including original Greek, Hebrew, and several ancient translations too I believe). The website is It looks like you can get the starters edition for like $39 and then add modules (translations) as you like. I don't think there is any free NIV software though.

Zondervan is pretty picky about their copyright. Other versions are a different story and can usually be found. Hope that helps. I did a little reaserching on NIV, and realized that it is copyrighted. No wonder it isn't free.

Therefore it is impossible to download an offline version of NIV. I used p2p software, and while trying not to do any of the usual illegal stuff, i only looked for basic document files like.txt,.doc, and adobe reader.

I found the old testiment this way, and i tried not to download any programs to keep myself as clean as possible, but it was tempting to download those programs for macs though now i am looking for new testiment adobe readers, and i should be fine for now then. That is my last resort anyway. No other choice. I needed the NIV and on my computer for my classes. Yeah, pirating the Bible has a certain irony to it. I bought a program called iLumina, and I was about to say that I was sure it had an NIV translation in it too.

I just checked, though, and it's only NLT and KJV. As has been said already, the NIV is pretty heavily protected and you won't find it free anywhere. A pity, since it seems to have become the de facto standard for Bibles these days. When I owned a Palm PDA I used a program called MyBible which did have an NIV translation available - I also got The Message and NLT. Click to expand.Thats good to know, I didn't know Logos was available for OS X.

However, (at least on the PC side) Logos is sort of known for having more resources available as add-ons (like commentaries and other works) whereas BibleWorks is thought to be better for working with the actual text of the Bible. That probably carries over to the Mac side as well. I'm pretty sure Accordance is still going to be a better option. I know several guys who have switched to Macs because its better than anything on the PC (including Logos). Click to expand.haha. A good question actually.

Some translations are copyrighted. Not the original text, of course, and the copyrights of older translations have run out so they are public domain and easy to find online. The reason for the copyright is that a publishing company pays a lot of money to have a big translation committee works for several years on a translation. The money they make from the copyright pays those expenses and of course the rest of it is profit. It's a publishing company, after all, what do you expect? But if there wasn't money in it they wouldn't have undertaken the whole process to begin with so I guess its about the best option. From what I can tell, you are not going to be able to get the 'newer' more popular translations for free (including NIV, NKJV, NASB, NLT), though I woundn't think it'd be too hard to find a simple version of the NIV text for sale on CD ROM.I checked Zondervan (.com) and they only have Bibles available in eBook format and in Windoze CD format.

But if you look at publishing companies like that you might be able to find one.sorry this isn't of much help. If anyone out there has a windoze box, is possibly the most amazing peice of free Bible Study software ever created, check it out for sure.

Mac Bible Software Guys, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion on this topic, and there doesn't have to be. You can find a LOT of information about Mac Bible Software on the web-site of the.

Currently the only Bible programs for Mac which offer the NIV are. The edition of the NIV available with Online Bible is the European edition, meaning there are differences in spelling and minor wording differences from the American edition.

Has been ported to Mac, but initial have not been great, and QuickVerse will likely never offer the NIV. Has announced plans to release a Mac version, but it's not available yet.

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Hope this clears up some of the confusion, and be sure to check out CMUG for more on Mac Bible Software. Sincerely, David Lang Content Editor.