About this edition
This web edition was built from a specific published print volume, the Extreme Teen Study Bible, New King James Version, published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. It presents the NKJV Scripture text together with this edition's own teen-oriented study notes, book introductions, and feature boxes (Promise, Making It Real, Words to Live By, Life App, World App, Profile, and more).
What is and isn't public domain here
Nothing on this site is public domain. This edition combines:
- The New King James Version Bible text — © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., all rights reserved;
- Original study notes, verse-by-verse insights, feature boxes, and book introductions written by the editors of the Extreme Teen Study Bible — © 2001, 2006, 2012 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.;
- This site's own original page layout, typesetting, and presentation.
The source PDF's copyright page states that the NKJV text may be quoted without prior written permission only up to and including 1,000 verses, provided the verses quoted amount to less than 50% of a complete book of the Bible and make up less than 50% of the work in which they are quoted. A full, searchable reproduction of the entire Bible — as this site is — clearly exceeds those limits.
Why this matters for this site
This web edition was built as a technical proof of concept — a real, working, searchable study Bible site — from the source PDF supplied for this project. Before this site (or any part of its Scripture text or study notes) is published on the live, public uecf.net domain, UECF.NET must either:
- obtain explicit written permission from Thomas Nelson Publishers / HarperCollins Christian Publishing (Bible Rights and Permissions, P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37214-1000) to republish this NKJV edition's text and study notes online, or
- replace the Scripture text and study notes with genuinely public-domain or properly licensed material.
The site's data files are deliberately structured so that swap can happen without touching the code: each chapter's Scripture and notes live in their own small JSON file under data/chapters/<book>/<chapter>.json, so replacing content is a data change, not a rebuild. See COPYRIGHT_ASSESSMENT.md, delivered alongside this site, for the full assessment — it does not soften this recommendation.
Extraction accuracy
This site's text was extracted automatically from the source PDF's character-level layout data (font, size, and position), then validated by comparing chapter and verse counts against an independent public-domain KJV reference dataset (the NKJV follows the same chapter/verse structure). Every book, chapter, and verse count matched that reference exactly. 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.