Printable Chinese Bible worksheets
Copying a passage out by hand is the oldest way to learn Chinese characters, and it still works better than rereading them. Each sheet below gives you a well-known passage in Chinese with pinyin and a translation, the words worth knowing with their HSK level, and 田字格 grids to trace the characters in.
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John 3:16
The best-known verse in the Bible — one sentence, sixteen characters, a good first passage to copy by hand.
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9–13. Short, rhythmic and repetitive — the passage most Chinese learners memorise first.
Psalm 23
The Shepherd psalm in full: six verses of plain, concrete vocabulary that reads well aloud.
Love Is Patient (1 Corinthians 13:4–8)
The wedding reading. A list of short parallel clauses, which makes it unusually easy to parse character by character.
The Beatitudes
Matthew 5:3–10. Eight blessings built on the same sentence frame — good practice for seeing structure in Chinese.
In the Beginning Was the Word
John 1:1–5, where 道 carries two thousand years of argument about how to translate it.
Do Not Be Anxious (Philippians 4:6–7)
Two verses that fit on one sheet with room to write them out several times.
Trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5–6)
A proverb couplet — the tightest, most quotable Chinese in the book.
Fear Not (Isaiah 41:10)
One verse, often given as a gift of calligraphy.
Be Strong and Courageous (Joshua 1:9)
A single commanding sentence — short enough to trace until the characters stick.
All Things Work Together (Romans 8:28)
One long verse with several HSK 4–5 words worth adding to a deck.
Come to Me (Matthew 11:28)
Eleven characters of invitation — the shortest sheet here, and the one beginners finish first.
From chinese-bible.com
The Gospel of John in Chinese — 21 Days
A printable workbook: one chapter a day, with pinyin, a vocabulary list keyed to HSK levels, and stroke-order diagrams with 田字格 practice grids for the characters that carry each chapter.
- 21 daily readings — the whole Gospel of John, one chapter per day
- Chinese, pinyin and English side by side, in a layout meant for paper
- A vocabulary table per day, marked with HSK level, built from the words actually used — each word taught once in the whole book
- Stroke-order diagrams for every practice character, so you learn to write them the right way round
- 187 printed pages, with a contents page that tells you where each day starts
PDF · A4 · 187 pages. Print it as many times as you like, for yourself and your household. Copies for a class, group or church need a separate licence. The worksheets on this site stay free.
How to use a sheet
Read the passage aloud once from the pinyin, then once from the characters alone. Trace the three grey characters at the start of each row, then write the rest of the row from memory — looking back at the passage is fine, that is what it is there for. A sheet takes about fifteen minutes and is worth repeating on a different day rather than twice in a row.
Every character on these sheets has its own page with stroke order, a breakdown of its parts and every verse it appears in — tap through from the vocabulary list or read the passage in context in the side-by-side reader.