French (Français) · 1744 (rev. 1996)
Ostervald 1996 (rev.)
Best for
French readers — the historic Geneva/Ostervald line.
LanguageFrench (Français)
Year1744 (rev. 1996)
LicensePublic Domain
“Car Dieu a tant aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle.”
Jean-Frédéric Ostervald’s 1744 revision of the Geneva Bible became the standard French Protestant Bible for two centuries.
The text here follows the public-domain 1996 revision, which gently modernizes spelling while preserving Ostervald’s voice.
BibleDawn’s French edition (/fr/) is built on this text.
Source text: ebible.org/details.php?id=fraobl