Dusty old Bibles? You can keep ‘em, vicar! All the modern Christian needs is the BibleXpress iPhone application (okay, they’ll need an iPhone or iPod Touch too), which offers a bunch of different translations of the Bible, “from conservative to contemporary”.

Naturally, the app uses the iPhone’s touchscreen to let you flick through the pages, but its real use is for people studying it, as you can make virtual annotations and associate them with particular verses.

I’m no Christian scholar, so I’ll just report that it includes the ASV, NRSV, ESV, NASB and LBLA versions of the Bible, and hope that you know what those acronyms mean. The app is fairly pricey by App Store standards at £17.99, but considering you get all those different versions, it’s not bad (and will save you bookshelf space).

App Store Direct Link: BibleXpress