Bishop: The SWORD Project for

CrossWire Bible Society, Software Development Team

About this app

Bishop is a Bible research application which works with the vast library of resources (2000+ Bibles, commentaries, lexica, and more) published for use with The SWORD Project from the CrossWire Bible Society. Unique tools include ancient New Testament manuscript research utilizing the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room resources from the Institute for New Testament Text Research.

The application is available in: Afrikaans, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, Slovenščina, Tok Pisin

Bibles are available in hundreds of languages. CrossWire desires to make available as many resources as we are able. These include Bibles and commentaries out of copyright. Many modern Bible publishers have also graciously allowed CrossWire to make their Bibles freely available for use with our software, including the Lockman Foundation's New American Standard Bible (NASB). Finally, a small number of publishers directly offer their texts for use with our software for a small fee, including the German Bible Society's Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament (NA28). By far, the vast majority of Bibles, commentaries, lexica/dictionaries, daily devotionals, etc., available for our tools are free and CrossWire never charges for our software tools or resources. If you have a text for which you control the permissions or you know of a text which is currently not available, and you would like this resource to be available for use within our software, please send an email to our modules team at: [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

New phone with Android 10 instead of the 11 I was used to and the app actually asked for permissions and didn't have any issues. I see how it's supposed to work now and it's my new favorite tool for Bible study went back to old phone and manually added permissions and it works well there too. Not sure why it didn't ask. Love all the repositories and options for tools. Love the view options for having side by side comparison in the app. Not sure what more I could want in a tool. Great job guys.

This is a good app. But there is a serious problem. Every time I open it, the app keeps telling me that no module(s) installed. I had delete and reinstalled it, and re-download some of its library. At first it runs smoothly, but later when I opened it again the same problem occured. Please help to fix it. I like this app because the features is good.

bishop is no where near the usability or stability of the SWORD project apps on iOS or Linux. Selecting text suddenly goes to selecting all when scrolling, the commentary assistant should be ditched and just allow for selecting the commentary just like selecting a Bible revision. I've always enjoyed the SWORD projects work until bishop.

What’s new

Modified Language Assist view mode for stability on older phones.