Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has released what he calls “the world’s first high-quality public domain audio copy of the King James Version (KJV) Bible” — an audio Bible that anyone may use in any project, free of charge and free of permission — through his new project, Deep Dive Bible (deepdivebible.org). Sanger describes it plainly: “Free, forever: a gift to the whole Church.”

Sanger, 57, helped launch Wikipedia in 2001 and was long known as a skeptic and philosopher. In 2025 he publicly announced his conversion to Christianity, telling how years of carefully reading the Scriptures brought him to faith in Jesus Christ. The man who helped build the world’s encyclopedia is now spending his strength putting the Word of God into the ears and hands of anyone who will receive it.

Deep Dive Bible, launched November 2, lets readers read and hear the whole Bible in one place, with 15 English translations — including the King James Version — together with commentaries, maps, lexicons, Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, and side-by-side comparisons. It is free, and no account is needed just to read and listen; Sanger says more features are being added regularly.

Alongside the KJV audio, Sanger has also released the first public domain modernized text of the Geneva Bible — the Bible carried by the Pilgrims — and plans to produce a superior public domain audio version of it as well.

Because the recording is public domain, churches, ministries, broadcasters, and publishers can use it in their own projects without asking permission and without paying royalties. The Word of God, freely received, can now be freely given — “freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8).

Listen for yourself at Deep Dive Bible: deepdivebible.org.