Editorial standards
These are the rules we hold ourselves to. If a page here breaks one of them, that is a mistake and we want to know about it.
Scripture comes first, and comes whole
Every verse on this site is quoted in full from a freely available translation — the Berean Standard Bible by default, which is freely licensed, with the public-domain King James Version, World English Bible, and American Standard Version alongside. We do not paraphrase Scripture into our own words and present it as the text. We do not clip a verse to make it say something the passage around it does not.
When a verse is commonly quoted out of context, we say so on the page rather than repeat the comfortable version.
What we assert, and what we don't
Our writing is arrangement and context: why these passages, what this word meant to the people who first heard it, how women have carried this text. Where Scripture speaks plainly we say so plainly.
Where it does not, we say that instead. On the questions that hurt most — why this happened, where a baby who never drew breath is now — the Bible is often quieter than we would like. We will not manufacture an answer to fill that silence, and we will not tell you your grief means your faith was too small.
Care standards for the hardest pages
Pages about grief, illness, miscarriage, depression, abuse, and dying are held to a stricter standard, and are marked as such under the byline. On those pages we do not offer medical, psychological, or legal advice; we do not promise an outcome; we do not imply that enough faith produces healing; and we always say plainly that Scripture is not a substitute for a doctor, a counsellor, or someone sitting with you in the room.
If you are in crisis right now, please reach out to a professional or someone you trust before you read another page.
Who "Grace" is
Editorial pages are signed Grace — the Bible for Women Editorial Desk, and that is a house byline rather than a person. There is no individual called Grace behind these pages, and the name is not a claim of pastoral, medical, or academic credentials.
We use it because a desk name reads more warmly than "the team," and we disclose it on every page that carries it because a byline you cannot check is worth nothing. In structured data the author and publisher of every page is Bible for Women — an organisation, not a person.
How we use AI tools
We use AI tools to help draft and arrange material — the same way a publisher uses research assistants. Being straight about that matters more to us than sounding artisanal.
What that never means: no page is published without being reviewed against these standards first. No doctrinal claim is asserted in a machine's voice. No Scripture text is machine-generated — every verse comes from the published translations named above. No page is mass-produced to fill a sitemap; if we have nothing worth adding to a passage, we publish the passage and add nothing.
Advertising never shapes the writing
Advertising helps keep the whole Bible free here. It has no influence on which passages we choose or what we say about them. Ad code is off by default across this site and switched on only for specific pages. The Bible reading pages, the individual verse pages, the candle pages, and the guides written for grief, illness, and loss carry no ad code at all.
Corrections
Every editorial page shows when it was last reviewed. If you find an error — a wrong reference, a misquoted verse, a claim we should not have made, a sentence that landed cruelly — tell us. Corrections go to the front of the queue, and a corrected page carries a new review date.
Questions about anything here? Write to us. See also about this site.