About this edition
This web edition was built from a specific published print volume: The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, New King James Version (Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing). It reproduces that edition's NKJV Scripture text and its full set of study features — Dr. Stanley's Life Principles, verse-by-verse "life lessons" notes, textual footnotes, and book introductions — extracted directly from the publisher's own PDF.
Copyright
The New King James Version® is a registered trademark, and the NKJV Scripture text is copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Life Principles, life-lessons notes, footnotes, book introductions, and all other study material original to The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible are copyright © Thomas Nelson and Dr. Charles F. Stanley. All rights reserved.
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What "Life Principles" and "life lessons" are
Dr. Stanley organizes this edition around 30 numbered Life Principles — recurring biblical truths (e.g. "Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him") introduced at their key Scripture location and cross-referenced throughout the Bible. Alongside them, most verses carry a short devotional life lesson, and many chapters include a boxed "What the Bible Says About…" topical article. These, together with the textual footnotes (translation notes on the Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic, marked with superscript letters in the text) and each book's introduction, are this edition's study material — kept visually distinct from the Scripture text itself throughout this reader, and shown in the right-hand notes panel (or the Notes tab on mobile) rather than mixed into the verse text.
Extraction accuracy
This site's text was extracted automatically from the source PDF's character-level layout data (font family, size, and position — not OCR), then validated by comparing every chapter's verse count against an independent public-domain versification reference. 31,101 of 31,102 expected verses matched exactly (99.997%); the one remaining gap is Psalm 119:100, whose verse-number glyph appears to be missing from the source PDF's own text layer (the verse's text is present, merged into the end of verse 99). A handful of ornamental drop-cap initial letters at the very start of a few front-matter paragraphs are similarly missing from the source PDF's text layer and are not reconstructed. The front-matter Life Principles Index and Promises Index (pages 18–47) are reproduced as a readable best-effort reflow rather than a pixel-exact re-layout of their original two-column, multi-section print design — for the exact original typesetting, each of those pages links to the matching page of the original PDF. A full account of what was checked, what was found, and what remains imperfect is in the project's Validation Report, delivered alongside this site.
The original PDF
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