Bíblia Livre Para Todos
pt-br
The Bíblia Livre Para Todos (BLPT) - 'Free Bible For Everyone' - is a public domain modern Brazilian Portuguese rendering of the New Testament. It contains the full twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon and was released in © 2022 by Free Bible Ministry Inc., which placed the complete text in the public domain so that it can be used by anyone, for any purpose, without restriction.
Origin and mission
Free Bible Ministry is part of a broader movement of Christian organizations producing Scripture translations explicitly designed to bypass the licensing frictions that surround most contemporary Bible editions. Where traditional Bible publishers must protect their investment through copyright, royalty agreements, and permission policies for digital reuse, projects like the BLPT begin from the opposite assumption: that Scripture is most useful when it can flow freely through every available channel - print, audio, video, web, app, software-development kits, and offline distribution - without anyone needing to ask permission first.
Translation philosophy
The BLPT is translated into accessible, modern Brazilian Portuguese, prioritizing clarity for ordinary readers over preserving archaic phrasing. The translators favor natural sentence structures, contemporary vocabulary, and rendering choices that communicate the apostolic message directly to a present-day Lusophone audience. Theological terms are presented in language that reflects current Brazilian Christian usage, and idioms from the original Greek are typically rendered in their meaning rather than in literal calques.
Scope and canon
The BLPT covers only the New Testament - the four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline epistles, the general epistles, and Revelation - and does not include the Old Testament. This is a deliberate scope decision shared by several modern public-domain translation projects, which often complete and release the New Testament first because of its narrower size, the relative stability of the Greek textual base, and the priority of getting the gospel narrative and apostolic teaching into circulation as quickly as possible. Users who need a complete public-domain Bible in Portuguese will typically pair the BLPT with another open Old Testament text such as the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial.
Public domain status
The most important fact about the BLPT is its legal status: it is in the public domain. There is no copyright holder, no licensing committee, no permission process, and no royalty obligation. The text can be quoted in full, embedded inside applications, recorded as audio, used in commercial publications, modified, retranslated, and shipped offline - all without legal exposure. This positions the BLPT alongside historic public domain Bibles like the King James Version, but rendered into the Portuguese a twenty-first-century Brazilian actually speaks.
Use on Midvash
On Midvash the BLPT is provided as a freely available modern New Testament, useful for everyday reading, devotional comparison, software integration, and any context where licensing certainty matters. Side-by-side with the Almeida tradition and with other modern Brazilian translations, it offers readers another clear and contemporary window onto the gospel narrative and the apostolic letters.