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Biblia.com
This site is a Bible study resource that is pretty simple to operate and offers a good bit of features such as various translations. It's basically just a simple tool for reading the Bible with a few study options built in as well. You can have the Bible open on one side and have a devotion open on the other. It's nice and intuitive but may be a bit difficult to get around sometimes. Definitely worth your time to tinker around with and see how it can help you grow closer to God!
There are quite a few places to read the Bible online that are also rich in features and resources to assist you're studying. Another great site is:
YouVersion.com
Now this site is similar to Biblia in a few ways but I think it may have a few more resources. They are both fairly similar. They both offer note taking features, I'm not sure if you can highlight with Biblia though. Both are worth tinkering with to see which one you prefer to use to help you study! Neither sites require you to download any software but YouVersion offers more social features that you need to sign up for in order to utilize them. The other upside to YouVersion is that they offer what I believe is the top rated Bible app on Android and I'm assuming it is on the iPhone as well! So you always have the tools you need to study the Bible wherever you are! YouVersion offers you various reading plans and devotions as well as a verse of the day all available to you on your mobile device.
With great resources like these, and I'm sure there are many more as well, you should always have the tools available to you to take to heart the word of God.
The hardest to use and most feature rich resource I've found is the e-Sword Bible study software!
e-Sword.net
If you're serious about studying the Bible then this tool is for you. It offers a built in word processing functionality for fantastic formatted note taking as well as many translations including commentaries, devotions, dictionaries etc. Most of them are free but a few are premium but everything you could possibly want in a Bible study application is here! They also just recently released an iPhone app, nothing for Android that I know of yet. It is available for Windows PCs, Mac and Linux. I highly suggest going to the site and checking out the features this software is packing and if you enjoy the free software then I would highly recommend you donate to them because it is really amazing what e-Sword is offering to Christians around the world for free.
That about summarizes a lot of the tools I utilize for my studies but if you're old fashioned, absolutely nothing wrong with that, then you can always go out and get a Study Bible and some highlighters and get to work. The internet is full of good resources but also some bad ones so be careful! Another site that you may enjoy checking out is John Piper's site DesiringGod.org He has a lot of books and sermons you can read for free but if you like his work then I would suggest purchasing some of his materials as well when you get a chance.
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