Partner: Biblica

The story of Biblica

Founded in 1809 as the New York Bible Society, Biblica began by sharing God’s Word with city residents, immigrants, sailors, and soldiers. Over the years, the ministry expanded globally—sponsoring William Carey’s Bengali Bible translation, supplying Scripture to prisoners and Civil War soldiers, offering Bibles in dozens of languages to immigrants at Ellis Island, and publishing the first Braille Bible. Biblica helped provide Scripture at Billy Graham’s 1952 crusades, invested in translating the NIV released in 1978, and later distributed millions of Bibles after the fall of the Soviet Union. With digital innovation, Biblica made the NIV available online, launched Reach4Life to disciple young people in South Africa, partnered with YouVersion, and joined the Every Tribe Every Nation alliance to accelerate global Bible access. More recently, the ministry has advanced digital translation tools, released hundreds of biblical texts under Creative Commons, and fast-tracked a contemporary Ukrainian New Testament in response to the war in Ukraine. For more than 200 years, Biblica has remained committed to bringing Gospel hope to the unseen, overlooked, and unreached.

General Terms of Use for Hoffnung für alle ™

The HFA ™ Bible text may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic or audio), up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without the express written permission of the publisher, providing the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted account for twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted. For such uses, notice of copyright must appear on the title or copyright page as follows:

Scripture quotations taken from the
Hoffnung für alle ® HFA ™
Copyright © 1983, 1996, 2002, 2015 by Biblica, Inc.
Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

When quotations from the HFA ™ Bible text are used by a local church in non-saleable media such as church newsletters, orders of service, posters, overhead/onscreen displays, or similar materials, a complete copyright notice is not required, but the acronym (HFA ™) must appear at the end of each quotation.

Permission requests that exceed the above General Use Guidelines must be directed to and approved in writing by Biblica, Inc. Please send permission requests through the Contact link at Biblica.com/Permissions, or by mail to Biblica, Inc., Attn: Rights and Permissions, 300 General Palmer Drive #4, Palmer Lake, Colorado 80133.

BIBLICA, THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY, provides God’s Word to people through Bible translation & Bible publishing, and Bible engagement in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. Through its worldwide reach, Biblica engages people with God’s Word so that their lives are transformed through a relationship with Jesus Christ.