

Scripture is living and active. Languages are living expressions of community, culture, and identity. Translation is where the two meet.
For many of us, the Word shaped our faith because we encountered it in a language we understand. A confirmation verse. A passage that steadied us in grief. Words that were clear, not distant. The Verse is a monthly partnership that sustains this careful work so the Living Word can be clearly heard in every language.

When we say bring your verse to the table, we mean the verse that found you. Not the one you looked up. The one that showed up: at a graveside, in a hospital room, at the moment your certainty gave out. The confirmation passage you memorized at thirteen that still surfaces in your hardest moments. The Scripture your grandmother had on her wall. The line that broke through your doubt at exactly the right time.
That verse carried weight because it was clear: in your language, in your words, spoken into your life with precision and care. Many communities around the world do not yet have that clarity. Not because the Word is absent. Because the translation is still in motion.
“Your verse. Their language. One faithful step at a time.”
Translation is not a moment. It is steady, faithful work. It happens at a table where local leaders, theologians, and language experts move through Scripture together, verse by verse, with theological depth and linguistic precision. For $35 a month, you sustain that table. One verse of Scripture is translated into a language that has never had it, with the same care that gave your verse its power.
Translation is careful, collaborative work. When you join The Verse, your monthly partnership helps move Scripture one verse closer to completion.
You begin with the verse that shaped your faith. The passage that found you at exactly the right moment.
Pastors, translators, and language experts gather around Scripture together. Carefully. Faithfully.
Each verse is carefully rendered into the language a community understands best. Clear, not distant.
Families, churches, and communities encounter Scripture clearly. In the language of their hearts.
Your verse becomes part of a larger story.
Bring Your Verse to the Table
We are inviting the first 600 partners to establish the foundation of The Verse, a community gathering at the table to provide consistent, monthly support for this steady work. Be one of the first 600.
Each dot is a seat at the table — tap any filled seat to see their name and verse, or tap an open seat to take your place.
$35/month sustains one verse translated into a language that has never had it. Bring the verse that found you.
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When you join the Founding 600, you bring your verse to the table. The passage that shaped your faith travels with your partnership into languages still waiting for it. Your name and your verse become permanently part of this community of faithful stewards.
600 monthly partners at $35/month generates $252,000 annually. That is the exact amount needed to sustain one full-time translation team for a full year. A defined cohort creates momentum, signals seriousness, and gives scale to the vision. The Founding 600 become the steady pulse behind this work.
When you join The Verse, you are not standing outside the work. Your monthly partnership sustains the table where local leaders, theologians, and language experts move Scripture from one language into another with care. God has already spoken. Translation ensures His Word can be read clearly in every language. You make that steady progress possible.
Translation ensures clarity across every language. Over 1.5 billion people still cannot read Scripture in the language they understand best. Not because the Word is unavailable, but because the translation is still in progress. Lutheran Bible Translators is committed to changing that by 2033. Steady monthly partnership is what makes this steady, faithful work possible.
God loved this world such that he gave His begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. That's one of the verses that I appreciate much, especially when I read it in my language.
— in the Founding 600. Bring your verse. Sustain the careful, faithful work of translation. The Living Word. Every living language. Verse by verse.