As of June 15, 2018 BibleWorks ceased operation as a provider of Bible software tools. The old BibleWorks web site, activation server and forum are gone. This new forum is intended to provide a way for the thousands of people still using BibleWorks to communicate with one another. Click on "General BibleWorks Discussion" above to view messages.Or you can jump directly to two topics of general interest to everyone:
To post to this forum you must register your account. After you register and accept the TERMS OF USE, you will be sent an e-mail. You must respond to this e-mail and be activated by an administrator before you can post. This is necessary to limit the use of this forum for spam.
We get a LOT of forum registrations that we cannot activate because we got no response to the confirmation e-mail that was sent. A few are returned as undeliverable and we assume that they are spammers. We have no way of knowing if the other confirmation e-mails were even received. If you registered and never received the confirmation e-mail, you can send a message to forum@biblework.com. But check your spam folder first. Of course you are free to browse messages without registering. You just can't post to the forum or respond to messages.
Note to all users (1/20/2026): If you receive a notice from the Windows Smart App Control saying that it cannot run BibleWorks because Microsoft does not recognize it as a safe program, your only recourse is to turn off the Smart App Control completwely. There is no per app whitelist. To do this search for "Smart App Control" in the Windows search pane. The Smart App Control is a new feature that disables unsigned applications. You have to either turn it off or stop using BibleWorks. Program executables distributed after the closure of BibleWorks are unsigned. The Smart App Control starts out in what it calls Evaluation Mode. Windows says this: "While Smart App Control is in Evaluation mode it will learn if it can help protect you without getting in your way too much. If so it will automatically be turned on. Otherwise it will be turned off." I do not know what Microsoft was thinking. Answer: they were not thinking. FYI the commercial releases of BibleWorks were signed, but the registration process is very expensive. I cannot afford that now. Turn it off or stop using BibleWorks. Your choice. There are plenty of safeguards in Windows without it.