BSN: Red-Letter Bibles

For the history of how red-letter Bibles came to be, see the 19th century in Bible Development Timeline.

For a selective concordance of the words Jesus spoke, see Red Letter Concordance.

Every chapter of the four Gospels has at least some red-letter words in them, except for Mt 1, Mt 2, Lk 1, and Lk 3. That’s 85 of 89 chapters.

In addition, at least some red letters appear in the following chapters:

Acts 1
Acts 9
Acts 10:13, 15 – ESV and CSB show these are red; NASB and KJV don’t.
Acts 11:7, 9,16 – ESV and CSB show 7 and 9 as red; NASB and KJV don’t. All show 16 as red.
Acts 18:9-10
Acts 20:35
Acts 22
Acts 23:11
Acts 26
1 Cor 11:24-25
2 Cor 12:9 – KJV, ESV, and CSB show these as red; NASB doesn’t.
1 Tim 5:18 – (quoting Lk 10:7) ESV and CSB show this as red; NASB and KJV don’t.
Rev 1
Rev 2
Rev 3
Rev 4:1 – ESV and CSB show this as red; NASB and KJV don’t.
Rev 16:15 – ESV and CSB show this as red; NASB and KJV don’t.
Rev 21:5-8 – Of the sources listed below, the only one showing this is JesusBelieverJD who says he is using 1769 KJV. But this position is logical because if “I am the Alpha and Omega” is red in Rev 1:8 and 22:13, why would you make the same phrase black in Rev 21:6? It just seems that more modern translators are flinching at the Son becoming a father – but what good reason is there for that? Do not sons become fathers? (Ps 45:16)
Rev 22:7, 12, 13, 16, 20 in the NASB 1995, KJV, ESV, and CSB. The CSB additionally puts verses 10-11 and 14-15 in red (except for, of course, the “Then he said to me” at the beginning of verse 10).

Sources used to compile the list above: