ASV Daily Verse by Text Message

Receive an American Standard Version Bible verse delivered to your phone every day via text message. The ASV is valued by scholars and believers alike for its literal accuracy and faithful rendering of the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Why the American Standard Version?

Published in 1901, the ASV was created by a team of American scholars who spent over 30 years refining the translation. It is considered one of the most literally accurate English translations ever produced, staying as close as possible to the original language structure while remaining readable.

The ASV is particularly valued for study because it consistently translates the same Hebrew or Greek word with the same English word, making it easier to trace themes and word usage across the Bible.

ASV Delivery by Text

Choose your delivery time, select ASV as your translation, and start receiving Scripture. One verse per day, delivered as a standard SMS text message. No app to install and no account to create. $1.99 a month after your 3-day free trial.

How the ASV Differs From the KJV

The American Standard Version was published in 1901 as the American edition of the English Revised Version, the first major revision of the King James tradition. The translators had access to manuscript evidence that was not available in 1611, and they worked with a stricter commitment to rendering the original languages consistently.

That consistency is the ASV's defining trait. Where the KJV sometimes varies its English for the sake of the sentence, the ASV tends to translate the same Hebrew or Greek word the same way each time it appears. For anyone tracing a theme or a repeated word across books, that makes the text considerably easier to follow.

The ASV also renders the divine name as Jehovah in the Old Testament rather than substituting LORD in capitals. It is one of the most visible differences between the two translations and one readers tend to notice within the first week.

Who Tends to Choose the ASV

Readers who pick the ASV are usually after precision. It reads more stiffly than the KJV, and it was never meant to compete on literary beauty. What it offers instead is a close, careful, word level correspondence to the source text, which is why it went on to serve as the foundation for several later translations.

It is also a reasonable choice if the KJV's archaic pronouns are genuinely getting in your way. The ASV is not modern English, but it is a step closer to it, and the sentence structure is easier to parse on a first read.

Switching Between Translations

You are not locked in. If you start with the ASV and decide the KJV suits you better, you can switch at the settings page in under a minute, and the change applies to your next delivery. Your reading position and your delivery time carry over.

Our ASV library holds all 31,103 verses across the full 66 books, matching the complete coverage of our KJV library. Like the KJV, the ASV is in the public domain, so we can deliver it without licensing restrictions.