The difficulty with a full-size study Bible is that it stays on a desk. The Personal Size edition keeps the entire apparatus and reduces the trim so that the book can be carried to church and to a class.

Inside is the complete ESV Study Bible: twenty thousand study notes, eighty thousand cross-references, more than two hundred charts, over fifty articles, and two hundred and forty full-color maps and illustrations. The type is correspondingly smaller, which is the trade-off. Bound in black genuine leather.