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Abib Bible Reader

A compact and fast Bible reader for your desktop or laptop. Abib helps you follow Scripture while listening to an online sermon or during personal study. It takes little room and has separate windows for the various parts.

Not this crowded normally.

What's to like in Abib

• Quick: jump to any verse quickly with abbreviated book names and chapter verse like jo3.16
• which is John 3:16 or 1th5.28 for 1 Thessalonians 5:28.
• Compact: a tidy window that sits neatly beside video or notes
• Simple 'Find': find words and phrases fast in the Bible.
• Search the Books, Commentaries and Dictionaries, with the 'Search' button.
• Built‑in daily readings: Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening
• John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible — click the Commentary button.
• Extras: Pilgrim’s Progress and other classic works included
• Light or Dark theme; font size you can adjust with Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-.
• Works offline; no accounts, no telemetry.

Get Abib (Windows)

1. Download the latest installer:
   • https://github.com/Abib-ops/Abib/releases
2. Run the installer and follow the prompts.
3. Launch “Abib” from your Start menu.

Quick start

• Jump to a verse: type ge50.7 to go to Genesis 50:7 (use a period between chapter and verse)
• Or use the three drop‑down boxes (Book, Chapter, Verse)
• Search: open the Find dialog from the menu and enter a word or phrase
• Daily reading: open the Devotional “Morning & Evening” by C. H. Spurgeon,
• or use "Daily Light on the Daily Path".
• Other books: use the bottom‑left drop‑down to open Pilgrim’s Progress and more.

For tips and shortcuts, see HELP.txt in the repository or the installed folder.

Questions

• Updates: Abib can check for updates and offer to download when a new version is available
• or only update when you want it to.
• Privacy: Abib works offline. It only accesses the internet to check for updates.
• License: Abib is free software (GPL‑3.0 or later). See LICENSE for details.

PDF resources

These Public Domain PDFs are distributed separately and can be downloaded from here:

• A Body of Practical Divinity—John Gill
• A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God—John Owen
• A Greek-English Lexicon of the NT—W. Grimm
• A Primary History of the British Isles BOOK 1—J. Parnell McCarter
• A Primary History of the British Isles BOOK 2—J. Parnell McCarter
• A Primary History of the British Isles BOOK 3—J. Parnell McCarter
• A Primary History of the British Isles TM—J. Parnell McCarter
• After the Flood TM—J. Parnell McCarter
• Augustine and his confessions—B. B. Warfield
• Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy—B. B. Warfield
• BB Warfield Evolution and Early Fundamentalism—David Livingstone
• Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn
• Bible Dictionary—W. Smith
• Bible Names Dictionary—R. D. Hitchcock
• Biblical Doctrines—B. B. Warfield
• Christian Martyrdom—J. Parnell McCarter
• Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible—Jamieson, Fausset, Brown
• Commentary on the Whole Bible—Matthew Henry
• Commenting and Commentaries—C. H. Spurgeon
• Concise Study of The Case Against Darwin—J. Parnell McCarter
• Defending the Reformed Faith—J. Parnell McCarter
• Doctrinal Divinity—John Gill
• Doctrine of Election, The—A. W. Pink
• Double-Predestination—R.C. Sproul
• Easton's Bible Dictionary—M. G. Easton
• Enchiridion—St. Augustine
• Exposition of Songs—John Gill
• Foxe Book of Martyrs
• Institutes—John Calvin
• Let My People Go—J. Parnell McCarter
• Literature of the Modern Era—J. Parnell McCarter
• Literature of the Reformation Era—J. Parnell McCarter
• March to Armageddon—J. Parnell McCarter
• Morning and Evening Daily Readings—C. H. Spurgeon
• Patrick Apostle to Ireland—J. Parnell McCarter
• Puritan Bible Primer—J. Parnell McCarter
• Puritan Grammar Primer—J. Parnell McCarter
• Real Story of Mankind—J. Parnell McCarter
• River Back to Eden—J. Parnell McCarter
• Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe
• Studies in Theology—B. B. Warfield
• Swahili New Testament
• Systematic Theology—Index—Charles Hodge
• Systematic Theology Vol I—Charles Hodge
• Systematic Theology Vol II—Charles Hodge
• Systematic Theology Vol III—Charles Hodge
• The Bible Doctrine of Election—C. D. Cole
• The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance Explained—John Owen
• The Five Points—David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas
• The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible—B. B. Warfield
• The Moravian Church—J. E. Hutton
• The Person and Work of the HOLY SPIRIT—B. B. Warfield
• The Person Of Christ—B. B. Warfield
• The Pilgrim's Progress—John Bunyan
• The Plan of Salvation—B. B. Warfield
• The Plan of Salvation—Charles Hodge
• The Trinity—John Owen
• The Works of Thomas Brooks—Thomas Brooks
• Torrey's New Topical Textbook—R. A. Torrey

Credits (Most are in the "Other Works" section of the application and not listed above.)

• Bible text: King James Version (Pure Cambridge Edition, from Matthew Verschuur)

• Other Works (public-domain texts) include authors such as:

• Arthur W. Pink — The Doctrine of Election; Comfort for Christians, The Antichrist

• C. D. Cole — The Bible Doctrine of Election

• Charles Haddon Spurgeon — Morning and Evening (via Eternal Life Ministries / spurgeongems.org);

• A Puritan Catechism, Sermons on Proverbs

• Charles Hodge — Systematic Theology (Vols. I – III)

• Daily Light on the Daily Path — Anonymous

• Edward M. Bounds — The Essentials of Prayer; The Necessity of Prayer, Power Through Prayer,

• Prayer and Praying Men, Purpose in Prayer, The Reality of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer

• George Whitefield — Free Grace Indeed! A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley

• John Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress; The Holy War

• John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion; Of Prayer, Commentaries

• John Flavel — A Saint Indeed

• John Owen — A Display of Arminianism; Catechisms, Of Communion with God the Father,

• Pneumatologia, The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance,

• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, Son and Holy Ghost,

• The Doctrine of Justification by Faith, The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined,

• The Sermons of John Owen

• Jonathan Edwards — The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volumes 1 & 2

• M. G. Easton — Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Martin Luther — Commentary on Galatians; Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, The Small Catechism

• Orville J. Nave — Nave's Topical Bible

• Reuben Archer Torrey — Torrey's New Topical Textbook

• Rev. Dr. Horatius Bonar, D.D. — God's Way of Peace

• Richard Baxter — A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

• Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• Sadhu Sundar Singh — At The Master's Feet

• Many public-domain texts were sourced via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL, ccel.org).

• Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/.

• The Library of Christian Classics

• archive.org

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