Tools
Help for reading, understanding and sharing the Bible. Here you see what is ready now, and what we are working on.
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Ask the Bible
Ask a question and see what the Bible says, with the verses in front of you and different Christian views named.
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Timeline
71 key events in order, from creation to Paul in Rome, with links to the texts.
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Word study
See the Hebrew and Greek text word by word, with meaning and other places the word is used.
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Bible study for small groups
Choose a passage and get a conversation outline with read, see, understand, live and pray, ready to print.
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Use right away
No account, no waiting.
Find a verse
Type a reference like “John 3:16”, a topic or a word, and jump straight there.
Open →Verse image
Make a nice image of a verse to share, in square, story or wide format.
Open →Compare translations
Read two translations side by side, verse by verse.
Open →Verses for occasions
Find fitting verses for baptism, weddings, confirmation, birthdays, illness and funerals.
Open →What does the Bible say about …?
Tell us what you are wondering about, and get Bible passages, a short explanation and a small reading plan.
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Read and understand
From a single verse to the whole context.
Reading plans
Small steps every day, from seven days of hope to the whole Bible in a year.
Open →Cross references
Enter a verse and see other places in the Bible that belong with it.
Open →Verse explanations
Short, plain explanations of more than fifty well-known verses, with context and related verses.
Open →People
Profiles of the people in the Bible: family, birthplace and the verses where they are mentioned.
Open →Places
Cities, countries, mountains and waters, where they were, and the verses where they are mentioned.
Open →Bible maps
Follow Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Elijah, Jesus and Paul from place to place, with the verses at each stop.
Open →Historic maps
24 maps from 1915 of the land through Bible history, with zoom all the way into the detail.
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Your own things
Needs an account.
For churches and groups
Help for leading others.
Print-friendly verse and chapter
Open the Aa menu at the top and choose “Print”. Menus and buttons are hidden, and the text is clean and readable on paper.
Open →Sermon support
Outline, background and cross references for a text.
Open →Confirmation course
Eight ready sessions of an hour with tasks, questions and homework.
Open →Widget for congregations
The verse of the day on the congregation’s own website, with a simple piece of code.
Open →Quiz
Ten questions made from our data: which book, what happened first, family and topics.
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Why open?
Reading and understanding the Bible should not cost anything. The tools here are made to make it easier to get started and to go deeper. What you enter in the tools is not stored by us unless you are logged in and choose to save it.