Read the Scriptures

The Bible

The whole of Scripture, in three translations you can switch between at any point in the text. Every one of them is free of copyright, which is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation.

The Old Testament

39 books

The New Testament

27 books

Translations carried

KJV

King James Version

Public domain

WEB

World English Bible

Public domain

BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Public domain

The King James Version follows the Received Text; the other two follow the critical text. Where they differ over whether a verse belongs in the text at all, the reader says so rather than passing over it in silence.

What else each chapter carries

The original languages. Any chapter can show the Hebrew or Greek beneath each verse, word by word, with transliteration and Strong's number. Every word links to its lexical entry and everywhere else it stands in Scripture.

Cross-references. Passages that bear on each verse, ordered by how strongly readers have judged the connection rather than listed indiscriminately.

Commentary. Eight works beside the text — Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, John Wesley, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, and others — with Spurgeon through the Psalms. Each says what it covers, and Henry stops where he stopped.

The dictionary. The names and terms a chapter contains, each opening where you are reading. Five works — Easton, the ISBE, Smith and more.

Original-language text and tagging from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House), CC-BY. Cross-references from openbible.info, CC-BY. Strong's numbering from the concordance of 1890 and 1894, public domain. Commentary from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and the CrossWire Bible Society, public domain; the dictionaries likewise.

Numbers beside each book are its chapter count. Scripture quotations elsewhere on this site are from the King James Version.