I took the view in this thread that downloading a file with the whole text would have a lot of big advantages compared to an API. A lot of other commenters have

I took the view in this thread that downloading a file with the whole text would have a lot of big advantages compared to an API. A lot of other commenters have expressed this idea too. But I want to highlight something from a comment of mine further down: while looking for examples of downloadable sacred texts, I found this page https://hackathon.bible/data/ https://hackathon.bible/data/ which has -- alongside downloads -- a whole bunch of actively-maintained APIs for Christian Bible verse access, some of them run by pretty prominent organizations. So, all of our intuitions about the merits of downloading sacred texts to bundle with apps are, apparently, not entirely shared by other developers. :-)