{"id":276,"date":"2026-08-09T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:56:44","slug":"bible-gateway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/?page_id=276","title":{"rendered":"Bible Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Burgundy-on-White-background-jpg-600-x-113px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Burgundy-on-White-background-jpg-600-x-113px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Burgundy-on-White-background-jpg-600-x-113px-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Burgundy-on-White-background-jpg-600-x-113px-500x94.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/votd\/votd.write.callback.js\"><\/script>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/votd\/get\/?format=json&amp;version=NCB&amp;callback=BG.votdWriteCallback\"><\/script>\n<!-- alternative for no javascript -->\n<noscript>\n<iframe framespacing=\"0\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/votd\/get\/?format=html&amp;version=NCB\">View Verse of the Day<\/iframe>\n<\/noscript>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/quicksearch\/\">\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" style=\"border-color: #600;\">\r\n<tr><th style=\"background-color: #600; color:#fff; text-align: center; padding: 0 10px;\">Lookup a word or passage in the Bible<\/th><\/tr>\r\n<tr><td style=\"background-color: #fff; text-align: center; padding: 0 10px;\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\r\n<input style=\"margin:2px\" type=\"text\" name=\"quicksearch\" \/><br \/>\r\n<input style=\"margin:2px\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Search BibleGateway.com\" \/><br \/>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/\" title=\"The Bible in multiple languages, versions, and formats\">\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/assets\/images\/logos\/bglogo_sm.gif?103106\" width=\"146\" height=\"44\" alt=\"BibleGateway.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\r\n<small>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/usage\/form\/\">Include this form on your page<\/a><br \/>\r\n<\/small>\r\n<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/form>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award-winning and critically-acclaimed Bible Gateway App is free to download (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/app\/\">https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/app<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<rssapp-list id=\"ND53Mt9Gi7x6iV5N\"><\/rssapp-list><script src=\"https:\/\/widget.rss.app\/v1\/list.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating an Online Bible Legacy: Bible Gateway<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venture back in time to the year 1993. Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States. The Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl. Women were granted combat roles in the US military. The final episode of \u201cCheers\u201d aired. Michael Jordan retired from basketball to play minor league baseball, then quit baseball and went back to the hoops court. The Mosaic Web browser launched, representing a major turning point in the Internet\u2019s journey toward wide-scale consumer acceptance. And, topping the news in 1993, The Bible Gateway, a fledgling idea in the mind of a university staffer, launched as an internal research tool for university students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Internet\u2019s takeover of modern communications and culture has been rapid and unparalleled. In 1993, the Internet, truly in it\u2019s youth from a consumer perspective, accounted for only 1% of telecommunications information flow. By 2007, 97% of telecommunications information flow was Internet-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, in the center of the information deluge flowing on the Web, sits BibleGateway.com (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BibleGateway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BibleGateway<\/a>), the most-visited Christian website in the world; home to more than 200 different Bible translations in more than 70 languages (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/versions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BibleGateway.com\/Versions<\/a>); and a trusted resource for more than 20 million people each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bible Gateway History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1993, Bible Gateway wasn\u2019t yet truly public. It was a simple database tool built by Nick Hengeveld, a staffer at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as a resource for other Calvin faculty, staff, and students. He wanted to employ technology to make it easy to quickly look up and read Bible text. The idea clearly had merit, because by 1995, BibleGateway.com was publicly accessible and had already begun amassing its loyal following. When Hengeveld went to work for Gospel Communications, he took Bible Gateway with him, and he and the Gospel Communications team continued adding to the site\u2019s content and functionality, always with the mission of enabling easy and free access to Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over time, and as a part of the Gospel Communications focus on technology in ministry, Bible Gateway faced and surmounted numerous challenges and changes: the evolution of devices, browsers, connectivity and consumer behaviour, the rise and fall of myriad start-ups, and the growth of multiple Bible sites in the Christian marketplace. Through it all, Bible Gateway never strayed from its core mission. It became trusted as the premier place online to find any Bible verse, in a multitude of languages and translations, in text or audio, for any student of the Bible, curious onlooker, or researcher just looking for a quote. In 2008, Gospel Communications shuttered its operations and sold Bible Gateway to Zondervan, the Christian publishing house. At that time, the site had grown from just a few student users to more than six million unique visitors per month. Today, Bible Gateway is the most-visited Christian website in the world with more than 140-150 million views per month. In addition to the complete text of the Bible (including the Apocrypha), the website also offers more than 60 devotionals and reading plans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BibleGateway.com\/Newsletters<\/a>), and its award-winning and critically-acclaimed Bible Gateway App for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BibleGateway.com\/App<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Ahead?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future of Bible Gateway is a thrilling unknown, certain to be impacted by ongoing upheavals in technology and consumer behaviour. As we strive to understand and respond to those changes that we can\u2019t yet see, a few key objectives stand out as unchanging, no matter what kind of device the visitor is holding: More, better, faster: We aim to continue enhancing the Bible Gateway experience across all platforms, increasing the volume and quality of trusted Bible translations and biblical content, and making user experiences intuitive and easy while still rich and robust. We\u2019ll continue refining our study tools, Bible search engine, and general user experience. Digital resources for purchase: We&#8217;ve launched direct-to-consumer e-commerce. Users can now add to the free Bible content already available on Bible Gateway by purchasing individual titles (like the&nbsp;<em>NIV Study Bible<\/em>&nbsp;Notes or&nbsp;<em>The Story of God Bible Commentary<\/em>) and unlocking them in their secure Bible Gateway library (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/digitalstore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BibleGateway.com\/DigitalStore\/<\/a>). This library of digital reference work will continue to expand. Localization: Bible Gateway carries Bible translations in over 70 languages, but visitors currently must navigate the site in English to find those Scriptures. Our plans call for providing ways to navigate BibleGateway.com in the most popular non-English languages. Book discovery: Bible Gateway will keep our vast number of users informed about new Bible-related books and other resources through our vibrant daily blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BibleGateway.com\/Blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the strong foundation and rich legacy that has been laid for Bible Gateway in its first 20 years, we will continue building a premier Internet Bible resource that seeks to honour God and inspire people to know him better through his Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bible Gateway Visitor Testimonials:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love Bible Gateway for many reasons\u2014so many version choices! Also, wonderfully user friendly; so many websites are not, which can be frustrating and time consuming. May the LORD bless you all abundantly.\u201d \u2013 Joyce<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the past 20 years I have been a regular in Christian chat rooms. I have been called upon again and again to use bible gateway to prove my positions or statements biblically and in context. I have used biblegateway probably thousands of times. I have been using your website for as long as it has been alive, as we are kind of like cyber missionaries\u2026What is mandatory in any chat room is the ability to look up and refute or confirm doctrine on the fly. You never know what the subject will be but if you have a working knowledge of the Bible, Bible Gateway&#8217;s search engine is a very valuable tool. Thank you for this service.\u201d \u2013 Marion Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDear Bible Gateway: I want to thank you for your Internet ministry. You have been (and continue to be) a blessing to me and my life. I discovered you a few years ago and often have listened to the Holy Scriptures pour life into me\u2014even as I drift asleep.\u201d \u2013 Tonyelle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI&#8217;ve been reading from Bible Gateway for a few years. I couldn&#8217;t afford to buy the audio Bible, I&#8217;m on SS. However, I&#8217;m now listening on Bible Gateway and so enjoying it so very much. I listened the other day from Acts to Revelation. Now started in Genesis. Thank you so much for making this available. God is so good. Thank you, thank you, thank you.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would like to thank you for your daily verse. I have been saved from a drug and alcohol addiction. I am putting my faith in God, I am clean and sober today.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Verse of the Day Lookup a word or passage in the Bible Include this form on your page The award-winning and critically-acclaimed Bible Gateway App is free to download (https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/app) Celebrating an Online Bible Legacy: Bible Gateway Venture back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/?page_id=276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleacademy.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}