ESV Bible Copyright

Last updated: June 25, 2026

Word Ministries uses the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible as its default English translation. The ESV is a registered trademark of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Standard Copyright Notice

English Standard Version (ESV) - © 2001 by Crossway

Full Copyright Statement

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language.

Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or any of the material from the ESV Bible in any format without written permission from Crossway. Users may not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or any of the material from the ESV Bible in any format without written permission from Crossway.

Official ESV Website

For more information about the English Standard Version, visit www.esv.org.

How Word Ministries Uses the ESV

• Picture Verse Bible — verse text displayed alongside community illustrations
• Passage lookup and keyword search via the licensed ESV API
• Teaching reader and study tools — scripture references resolved to authoritative ESV text
• Verse overlays — ESV text rendered on picture-verse images (fetched from the licensed API, not AI-generated)

ESV scripture text is never generated or altered by artificial intelligence. All ESV content is fetched verbatim from the licensed ESV API and displayed with the required copyright attribution.

Contact

For questions about Bible copyright on Word Ministries:

• Website: word-ministries.com
• ESV licensing: Crossway Permissions