About this edition

This web edition was built from a specific published print volume, the Study Bible – Today's King James Version, prepared by Grace Ministries (Krupa Paricharya Charitable Trust, Bangalore, India). It is important to understand exactly what that means before this text is treated as "the King James Bible."

This is not the verbatim 1769 Authorized (King James) Version. The Scripture wording in this edition is a modernized paraphrase of the KJV, prepared by this edition's publisher. It follows the KJV's structure, book order, and chapter/verse numbering, but the wording itself has been updated (for example, "thee/thou" and archaic verb forms are generally modernized). If you need the verbatim public-domain 1769 KJV wording, this site is not that text.

What is and isn't public domain here

The underlying King James Version translation (1611, standardized 1769) is in the public domain worldwide. That status covers the historical KJV text — it does not automatically extend to any particular publisher's modern edition built on top of it. This edition adds:

Its own modernized paraphrase of the Scripture wording (not the verbatim 1769 text);
Original study notes, verse-by-verse commentary, and book introductions written by this edition's editors;
Its own page layout, typesetting, and formatting choices.

The source PDF carries an explicit copyright notice from the publisher ("All rights reserved"). That notice applies to the paraphrased wording, the study notes, the book introductions, and the specific presentation — the elements this edition's editors created, as distinct from the underlying public-domain KJV structure.

Why this matters for this site

This web edition was built as a technical proof of concept — a real, working, searchable study Bible site — from the source PDF supplied for this project. Before this site (or any part of its Scripture text or study notes) is published on the live, public uecf.net domain, UECF.NET should either:

obtain explicit written permission from Grace Ministries / Krupa Paricharya Charitable Trust to republish this specific edition's wording and notes online, or
replace the Scripture text and study notes with genuinely public-domain material (for example, the verbatim 1769 KJV text, and either public-domain commentary or newly-written original notes).

The site's data files are deliberately structured so that swap can happen without touching the code: each chapter's Scripture and notes live in their own small JSON file under data/chapters/<book>/<chapter>.json, so replacing content is a data change, not a rebuild.

Extraction accuracy

This site's text was extracted automatically from the source PDF's character-level layout data (font, size, and position), then validated by comparing chapter and verse counts against an independent public-domain KJV reference dataset. The great majority of the Bible matches that reference exactly. A full account of what was checked, what was found, and what remains imperfect is in the project's Validation Report, delivered alongside this site.

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