PrayTime.me Bible Verses

me with the aim of creating a community for believers and those seeking spiritual peace.

Wishing to make the Bible available directly on our website for free — and finding no viable way to do so using existing tools or plugins — we decided to develop this plugin to distribute at no cost to anyone running a site on this platform.

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Credit

Although the plugin is free, we kindly ask you to enable the CREDIT checkbox which is found in Settings, in order to recognize our effort to make this plugin available for free.

Donate

We thank you for your donation and wish you great success in your mission to share the Bible with everyone, free of charge.

Bible usage rights

Translation

Usage rights

BSB

Dedicated to the public domain on April 30, 2023. Publisher’s statement

ASV

Original 1901 text is public domain. Distribution notice

AKJV

American King James Version was dedicated to the public domain, allowing copying, selling and modifying. Dedication

CPDV

SacredBible states its text and files are public domain unless otherwise indicated. Original source

DBT

Historical Darby text is public domain. Distribution notice

DRB

Historical Douay-Rheims/Challoner text is public domain. Distribution notice

ERV

Historical English Revised Version is public domain; confirm the exact edition because other translations share that abbreviation.

JPS / WEY

JPS 1917 is public domain; historical Weymouth editions are public domain in the US. Later JPS translations have different rights. JPS explanation, Weymouth example

NHEB

Published as a public-domain translation. Publisher’s foreword

SLT

Julia E. Smith’s historical translation is public domain; verify the dataset contains that text.

WBT

Webster’s historical translation is public domain. Distribution notice

WEB

Text is public domain, but “World English Bible” is a trademark; the publisher asks that modified text use another name. Publisher’s terms

YLT

Historical Young’s Literal Translation is public domain. Distribution notice

Settings

me Bible Verses → Settings holds the site-wide defaults; /Shortcode attributes override them.

• Translations: the default translation, which translations are enabled, whether translation descriptions are shown, and the chapter the reader opens at.

• Appearance: accent colour, light / dark / automatic colour scheme, flowing or one-verse-per-line text, verse numbers, and stacked or side-by-side columns when comparing up to three translations.

• Verse of the day: rotate through an editable list of references, or pick a random verse each day.

• Reader links: addresses like /bible/web/john/3/ on a chosen reader page (needs a non-plain permalink structure).

• Sharing: Copy and Share buttons on passages, with click-to-copy verse numbers.

• Notes: let logged-in users write notes on verses. See “Verse notes” below.

• Credit: an optional “This plugin is freely offered by PrayTime.me” line linking to PrayTime.me. It is off until the site owner enables it.

• Data: keep the Bible texts and settings when the plugin is deleted.

Verse notes

When Verse notes is enabled in the settings, passages shown by [praytime_bible_verses] get a Notes section:

• Logged-in users can write a note on any verse, choosing whether it is private (only they can see it) or public (every visitor can see it).

• Authors can edit and delete their own notes. Users who can moderate comments (administrators and editors) can also delete public notes.

• Logged-in users can vote public notes of other users up or down; the best voted notes are listed first.

• Verses with notes show a small marker at their end with the number of notes. Hovering it previews the notes in a tooltip; clicking it opens a dropdown with all of the verse’s notes, where logged-in users also add and edit notes. For logged-in users every other verse shows a faint “+” marker to add the first note.

• All notes of the passage are also listed after it, under a “Notes” button.

• A note belongs to the verse, not to a translation, so it appears next to that verse in every translation.

• Notes are loaded by the browser from the REST API ( /wp-json/praytime-me-bible-verses/v1/notes ), so cached pages still show current notes. When a user account is deleted, its notes and votes are deleted too.

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen drops its tables (including all verse notes and votes) and its settings, unless “Keep the Bible texts and settings” is enabled in the settings. Deactivating always keeps them.