Living In The WORD
Living In The WORD, Version 2.3, is an accessible offline Windows Bible-reading and study program designed especially for JAWS and NVDA screen-reader users.
Version 2.3 was released October 27, 2026 and was designed by Ronald L. Worley Jr.
The program works offline after installation. Version 2.3 includes five natural-sounding synthetic Scripture narrator voices. These are offline computer-generated voices, not recordings of human Bible narrators.
Included Features
- Five complete public-domain Bible translations.
- An offline general English dictionary and an offline Bible dictionary.
- An offline Strong’s Concordance indexed to the King James Version.
- Four complete 365-day Bible reading plans, including chronological reading.
- Five independent Scripture study tabs.
- Word and phrase searching, Parallel Verses, word navigation, copying, and chapter navigation.
- Daily reading progress stored locally on the user’s computer.
- Personal verse notes that can be added, read, edited, and searched from regular passages and daily readings.
- Keyboard commands and screen-reader-friendly dialogs designed for JAWS and NVDA.
- Five fully offline Scripture narrator voices: Heart, Isabella, Michael, Lewis, and Daniel. Lewis is the default.
Download
Download Living In The WORD, Version 2.3
Download size: approximately 213 MB.
What’s New in Version 2.3
- A redesigned main screen and Scripture-passage screen provide clearer access to passages, translations, daily reading plans, study tabs, and verse actions.
- Personal notes can be attached to individual verses, edited later, and searched by a word or phrase.
- Verse notes are available from both regular Scripture passages and daily-reading passages.
- Note and verse-action windows use shorter JAWS announcements and improved keyboard focus.
- Five natural-sounding, fully offline Scripture narrator voices.
- Lewis is the default Scripture narrator.
- The narrator reads Bible text only. The active screen reader continues to speak menus, buttons, tabs, Strong’s Concordance, dictionary results, search results, and program messages.
- Press A for the next narrator or Shift+A for the previous narrator.
- Use Left Bracket and Right Bracket to adjust narration speed. Press Backslash to return to normal speed.
- Press F2 to open the Scripture Narrator Settings window.
- Verse numbers are separated from the Scripture text to provide smoother listening. Use Left and Right Arrow to move between the verse-number and verse-text columns.
- Daily-reading completion and missed-reading improvements are included.
- Press Control+Shift+H to open Version Information. Press Escape to close it.
Installation
- Download the ZIP file above and save it to your computer.
- In File Explorer, focus the ZIP file, press Shift+F10, and choose Extract All.
- Open the extracted folder.
- Open Setup-Living-In-The-WORD.vbs.
- The Install button receives focus. Press Enter or Spacebar.
- When installation finishes, Living In The WORD opens automatically unless you clear that option during setup.
Setup installs the program for the current Windows user and does not require administrator permission. If the VBS setup file does not open, use Setup-Living-In-The-WORD.cmd instead.
Existing users can install Version 2.3 over an earlier version without uninstalling. Saved reading-plan progress and saved verse notes are preserved.
After Installation
Open Living In The WORD from the Desktop or Start Menu. Press F1 inside the program for a list of keyboard commands, or press H for the Help menu.