Latter-day Saints love and revere the Bible. We consider the Bible to be the word of God. We can receive strength, comfort, and guidance from the biblical accounts of God’s dealings with His people.
The National Bible Association named Salt Lake City as the National Bible City for 2013, which included a concert on Temple Square and public Bible readings.
In English, the Church publishes the King James Version of the Bible complete with study aids, such as Bible maps, a Topical Guide, and a Bible Dictionary. All these study aids are also available in the Spanish LDS edition of the Reina Valera edition of the Bible.
The Church provides the full text of the Bible online at scriptures.lds.org where you can also listen to a high-quality audio recording. When in any chapter, just click Listen in the right margin, or click Download to get your own MP3 file for listening offline. (If you want to download entire books, or the whole Bible at once, you can get a convenient .zip file at audio.lds.org).
Latter-day Saints are counseled to study the scriptures daily and apply Biblical teachings in their lives as they seek to live as disciples of Jesus Christ.
In weekly Sunday School classes, Mormons study the Old Testament for a year, then the New Testament in the following year.
Latter-day Saints believe in an open scriptural canon, which means that there are other books of scripture besides the Bible and that God continues to reveal His word through living prophets. Therefore, Sunday School study also includes a year of study of the Book of Mormon, which is the scriptural account of God’s dealings with His people in the ancient American continent.
The fourth year of study in the Sunday School curriculum is about modern scriptures: the Doctrine and Covenants (revelations from the Lord to the Prophet Joseph Smith and to a few other latter-day prophets) and the Pearl of Great Price (extracts from Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible, a translation of Egyptian papyri containing the writings of the prophet Abraham, excerpts from Joseph Smith’s testimony and history, and the Articles of Faith).
Latter-day Saint youth also study the scriptures in their daily seminary classes during high school, and in college-level institute classes.
Watch the video “The Miracle of the Holy Bible:”
The video “What the Scriptures Mean to Me” describes the personal value of the scriptures:
Learn more:
- On LDS.org, read the topics, Scriptures, Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price.
- Listen to a professor of ancient scripture discuss the Bible’s history.
- Watch high-quality videos from the New Testament in the online series “The Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos” (biblevideos.lds.org).
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