Frequently asked

Type a reference into the Read bar — John 3:16, Psalm 23, 1 John 4:7-12. Spaces work in place of the colon too, so john 1 1 finds John 1:1. As you type, the dropdown offers matching books, chapters and verses; arrow keys move through it and Enter opens the highlighted one.

He sets the passage in the NASB above each group of his notes, and that translation belongs to the Lockman Foundation rather than to him — his permission to share his work is not theirs to give. So his notes are here in full and the verse headings say which verses each group treats, while the passage itself stays in the reading pane above, in whichever translation you chose.

Yes. Type any phrase — "the lord is my shepherd" — and matching verses appear in the dropdown. Free-text search covers the translations stored on the site, and it knows that a text may spell a word its own way: searching "honor" finds "honour", and "show" finds the King James "shew".

Then you are offered a short list beside the results. Search a person — David, Ruth, Paul — and it names the episodes they are known by, the contest on Carmel rather than the troop lists. Search a subject — love, grief, forgiveness — and it names the verses that subject is known by. Counting words in the text cannot find either, so both are written out by hand and checked against the text itself.

Yes — up to six. The day's reading is always the first tab and can't be closed; anything you look up afterwards opens to its right. Once six are open, the next lookup closes the oldest of the others.

As far as you like. A passage opens in its chapter, and the chapter scrolls — keep going and the next one loads underneath, on through the end of the book and into the next. The two small arrows floating at the top and bottom of the reading name the chapters either side, so you can step straight to them. Reading back works the same way: scroll up and the previous chapter appears above you.

The reading opens at that verse rather than at the top of its chapter, and tints it for a few seconds so your eye finds it. Everything before and after it is there to scroll through, and the “Whole chapter” button beside the reference takes you back to the chapter’s first verse whenever you want to start it from the beginning.

Under every passage, in a scrolling pane of its own. There are nine, and every one of them is read here rather than followed to somebody else's site: Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Wesley's Explanatory Notes, Adam Clarke, Gill's Exposition and Spurgeon's Treasury of David are all public domain; the Gospel Coalition allow theirs to be reproduced in full for non-commercial use; and Bible Lessons International allow Bob Utley's Free Bible Commentary to be shared free of charge with credit. Because TGC's permission is to reproduce each volume whole, theirs opens at the section covering your chapter with the rest of the book above and below it.

Spurgeon wrote on the Psalms and nothing else, so he is offered there rather than everywhere with nothing to say. Utley did not treat every book, and Wesley's source edition has its own gaps — 2 Samuel 24 and much of Proverbs among them. Where a commentary has nothing on your chapter the pane says so and offers its publisher's own page for it.

Yes — the chooser beside the tabs holds all of them plus a page on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and up to six can be tabs at once. Four are picked to begin with: Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Wesley and Spurgeon. Your choice is remembered on your device, and follows your account between devices once you're signed in.

Yes — the Aa and A controls above the passage switch between three typefaces and three sizes. Signed out, your choice is remembered on that device; signed in, it is saved to your account and follows you to any phone or computer you sign in on.

25, across 9 languages. 13 are stored on the site itself and load instantly; the rest are fetched when you open them — the modern editions from their publishers' licensed service, the older ones from a free public-domain library.

Pick up to six from the translation menu. Each becomes a tab above the passage, so you can flip between them on the same verse. The first tab you open loads immediately; the others load as you visit them. If you aren't signed in, the reader opens with three to start: the KJV, the Amplified Bible (AMP) and the New King James Version (NKJV), with the KJV showing. Close any you don't want, or add others; this browser remembers your set. Signed in, your account keeps your own choice.

The Douay-Rheims and the Clementine Vulgate follow the older Septuagint numbering, where the Psalms are offset by one for much of the book — their Psalm 22 is the King James Psalm 23. That is faithful to those translations, not a mistake.

Yes. The translation picker has the Textus Receptus, the Greek New Testament the King James Version was translated from, and the Westminster Leningrad Codex, the Hebrew Old Testament from the oldest complete Hebrew Bible. Both are in the public domain and stored on the site. They are numbered verse for verse as the King James is, so John 3:16 or Malachi 4:1 opens the same verse in Greek or Hebrew as in English — where the Hebrew numbers differently (Malachi 4 is its Malachi 3, and a psalm's title is its verse 1), the text has been lined up with the King James, the title joined to the first verse. Hebrew reads right to left. Compare either with an English translation as a tab beside it, and search them by typing Greek or Hebrew in the search box — without accents, breathings or vowel points if you like (λογος finds λόγος, אלהים finds אֱלֹהִים), and a Hebrew word is found with "and", "the" or "to" written onto its front too. There is no Listen for these two: the voices read English.

Yes — AMP, NKJV, NLT are served under licence from their publishers, which is why each carries its copyright line under the passage. The rest are public domain: free to read, compare and listen to without restriction, and stored here rather than fetched.

The passage is read aloud in the site's own narration voice — a deep, unhurried one, and the same on a phone as on a desktop. The reading scrolls in time with it and the verse being read is highlighted, so you can follow along, and it carries on into the next chapter rather than stopping at the end of this one. Nearly the whole Bible is recorded in that voice; the few books not yet recorded (for now the five books of Moses) are read in a second, similar voice until theirs is done.

Ours, on nearly every device. Browsers differ wildly in which voices they have installed — many phones have no male voice to offer at all — so the narration is recorded for the site instead and simply played back. If that audio can't be reached, your browser's own speech takes over mid-passage rather than the reading stopping.

The words of the verse, yes — they go to the site, which has them narrated by Google's text-to-speech the first time anyone asks for that particular verse, and keeps the audio file so nobody waits for it twice. Nothing about you goes with them: the audio is filed under a fingerprint of the words themselves, and no record is kept of who listened to what.

Two reasons. The Amplified Bible, the New King James Version and the New Living Translation are read here under a licence from api.bible that covers showing the text and not reading it aloud, so those three are never narrated — switch to any other translation and the button comes back. Your own screen reader is unaffected and will read them like anything else on the page. Otherwise it's your browser: the button only appears where speech is supported, which most current desktop and mobile browsers are and a few older ones aren't.

Only to post a reflection. Reading, comparing, listening and the daily verse are all open to everyone, with no sign-in.

Yes. Choose "Email me a code instead" and we'll send a six-digit code that signs you in. It expires in ten minutes and works once.

Use forgot password and we'll email a reset link. It works once and expires in an hour. Resetting also signs you out everywhere else.

Signing up sends a link to your email, and your account is made when you follow it — so nobody can open an account in your name, and we can always reach you if you lose your password. If the address already has an account, we email its owner instead of saying so on the page. Older accounts that were never confirmed still work; an unconfirmed address just can't receive a reset link.

Yes — your own reflections show a delete control when you hover over them. You can only remove your own.

There is a small row of reactions under each — Amen, loved this, peace, moved me, made me think. Deliberately small, and with nothing to disagree with: a longer strip of faces turns a devotional thread into a comment section.

Yes, one or the other. A video can be up to 2 minutes and 10MB, recorded on your phone or picked from your files. A photo is resized in your browser before it uploads, which also removes the details your camera stores with it, such as where it was taken. Either uploads straight from your browser to the site's storage rather than through the page, so a long clip doesn't have to survive a form submission.

Every photo is checked automatically as you post it — this is a family site — and usually appears straight away. If the check is unsure, someone here looks at it first, and until then only you can see it; your words are published meanwhile. A photo the check finds clearly unsuitable can't be posted.

The site itself. Each day it posts one short reflection on that day's passage, and the film made for that day goes into the same thread. It is not an account anyone can sign into, and it posts once a day rather than replying to anyone.

Each part has a page of its own now, and the home page keeps the day's verse, one next step and the reader. Bible stories are at /bible-stories (the name search is still on the home page, under the verse), reading plans at /plan, the family tree at /family-tree, Christian leaders at /leaders, What's on Your Mind at /topics, hymns at /hymns, the daily puzzle Who or What Am I? at /who-am-i, the Bible Timeline at /timeline and the bedtime reading at /sleep. The menu at the top names them all (the newer ones under More), and the tiles under the verse lead to each. Old links to the home page's sections still arrive at the right page.

Short films, one to a figure, telling their life in scripture's own order rather than as a single famous scene. They are all at /bible-stories (Bible Stories in the menu), and the search under the day's verse on the home page finds any life by name. Each opens on a page of its own with a Read option beside it if you would rather open the passage than watch. The films are grouped by era, a tab each, and there is a Jesus Christ tab beside The Gospels gathering his films and the short films of his miracles (a film can sit under more than one tab, but All shows each once); on a phone, slide the row of tabs and the one that comes to rest in the middle opens, or swipe the films left or right for the next or previous era.

Yes. Every film has a page of its own at /bible-stories, with the story in a sentence, the chapters to read and the lives before and after it. Share, in the film's player or on its page, sends that page, and the preview in a message shows the film's picture and name. The whole list is under Bible Stories in the footer and the phone menu, or All films under the strip.

Yes — short clips from them, about a minute each, and the short films of Jesus's miracles whole, on YouTube (youtube.com/@ourdailyguidebible), Instagram (@ourdailyguidebible) and X (@our_daily_guide), each pointing to where to watch the whole film free here. The links are in the footer, beside Watch the films. New clips go up every day.

Then you're shown where that life is in scripture instead — the reference rather than a film, since the two are answers to different questions and the reference is true whether or not the film has been made yet. The search box takes other names too: "Peter" and "Simon" both find the same life.

His life is told across four films rather than one, each covering a stretch of the Gospels — the word made flesh, the kingdom he preached, the road to Jerusalem, and the passion and rising. One film trying to hold the whole of it would have to rush every part; four each get room to be told properly.

Yes — Hymns, at /hymns (in the menu on a phone, and in the footer of every page). It holds over 8,400 hymns of the church, every one in the public domain: 286 from the Open Hymnal Project (Amazing Grace, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Holy, Holy, Holy and the rest), each with its words, a score and the tune to play, and over 8,100 more from PDHymns.com, each with its sheet music as a PDF in standard notes and, for most, shape notes too; many also have their words, and some a tune to play — for a growing number that tune was read from the sheet music by computer, which is marked on the page, as it may have the odd wrong note. Sections include Christmas, Children, Psalms, Chants, Sacred Harp, Spanish and Bilingual. Search by title, first line, author or tune, or narrow by topic or section. Each hymn has its words set out verse by verse, the four-part sheet music (which you can print), Play the tune — a piano plays it once for each verse, lighting the verse being sung, at a slower, normal or faster speed — and Slides, the words a verse to a screen in large type for singing together. Each hymn also lists the Scripture it draws on and, from Hymnary.org, the year it was written and how many hymnals print its words and its tune, with links to its fuller history there; and below the reader, the switch at the top of Commentaries & Literature slides over to Hymns: first “Our Daily Verse related hymns”, the hymns drawn from the chapter of the day's verse, then those from the chapter you are reading if you have moved on from it, then the whole hymnal to search or narrow by section (Christmas, Easter, Evening and the rest), each opening right there with its words, tune, sheet music and slides.

When scripture is read aloud — Listen under the day's verse, or ▶ in the reader — a low bed of music plays beneath the voice: quiet music the site made for itself — "Psalm" under the day's verse (the same as under the podcasts), "Still Waters" under every other reading, the bedtime one at /sleep included — fading in as the reading starts and out when it stops. To turn it off, press the music note beside Listen (on a phone, beside the day's verse it takes the podcast button's place while a reading plays); it stays off in this browser until you turn it back on.

Yes. Wallpaper, beside Share under the day's verse, opens that day's page at "Make it your phone wallpaper": the verse drawn for a phone's lock screen, three ways — plain on cream with the Our Daily Guide logo faint behind the words, or under the logo in its own colours, on deep teal or on blush pink and white. The words sit below where the clock goes. On an iPhone, press and hold the picture and choose Save to Photos, then set it as your wallpaper from Photos; elsewhere, Download saves it. Each day of the last thirty has its own, from its page under Past verses, and if you step back a day with the slider, Wallpaper follows it.

Yes. Every chapter that hymns are drawn from has a page of its own — for example /hymns/on/psalm-23 — listing every hymn in the hymnal that sings it, with the verses each one takes up, who wrote the words, how many hymnals print them, and whether there is a tune to play; Read takes you to the chapter itself. Hymns by Bible chapter, at /hymns/on (and a button on the Hymns page), shows the books of the Bible with how many hymns sing from each; choose a book to see its chapters, and choose it again to close it. Which hymns cite which verses comes from the Open Hymnal Project and, for the rest of the hymnal, from Hymnary.org. Under the day's verse, the third button, Hymns on today's verse, opens its chapter's page with the hymns on that very verse first (stepping back a day with the slider, it follows that day's verse). In the reader's Hymns tab, each chapter shows its dozen most-sung hymns and a link to the rest.

A daily Bible puzzle, at /who-am-i (Who or What Am I? under More in the menu, and its tile under Explore on the home page). Each day there is one person, place or thing from scripture to guess — Noah one day, the ark of the covenant or Jericho another — from five clues: four written ones, the hardest first, each true to the King James text, and then a scene from their film (or a film they appear in), blurred, or where there is none, the chapter to find them in. The era they lived in shows from the third clue. Type who or what you think it is, pick the name from the list that appears as you type, then press Guess (it stays grey until something is typed). Each wrong guess shows the next clue, and "Another clue" shows it without a guess but uses a try; there are five tries. On the last clue, with nothing typed, the Guess button reads Reveal: press it to see the answer. Right or out of tries, you see who or what it was, with the film or story, the chapter to read and, for a person, their place in the family tree, and a Share button that sends your result as coloured squares (🟥 a miss, 🟩 the right guess) without giving the answer away. Your progress and streak are kept in this browser only, so there is nothing to sign in for. A new person comes at midnight Eastern time, and "Yesterday's answer" under the game shows who yesterday's was. Missed a day? Under "Past puzzles" is a calendar of the last month's: tap a day to play it (each is at /who-am-i/<date>, for example /who-am-i/2026-10-30). Days you solved are green, ones you didn't are pink, a dot means started, and today's is ringed. They play the same, but they don't count towards your streak.

Yes — Fall asleep to Scripture, at /sleep (Fall asleep to Scripture under More in the menu, and a tile under Explore on the home page). Choose a reading to begin with — Psalm 4, Psalm 23, Psalm 91, John 14 and some thirty others chosen for the night, shown ten at a time and changing every few seconds until you pick one (Show others turns them yourself) — or a whole book from its first chapter, and how long to listen: 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. The King James text is read aloud over quiet evening music, and the screen goes dark with a large, dim countdown clock of the time left and the verse being read beneath it. It reads on chapter after chapter until the time is up; then the voice stops at the next verse and the music plays on a little and fades away. Stop ends it at once, and the note turns the music off. Turn your phone's volume down low before you begin. Every book of the Bible is offered. Most are read in the site's own narration voice; the few not yet recorded in it (some of the Old Testament histories and the books of Moses, for now) are read in a second, similar voice until their recording is finished, and then move over to it by themselves.

Yes — The Bible Timeline, at /timeline (Bible timeline under More in the menu, and a tile under Explore on the home page). It lays out the people of scripture in the order their stories happened, from Adam to John on Patmos, in ten eras — Beginnings, the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the Judges, the United and Divided Kingdoms, Exile and Return, the Gospels, the Early Church and Revelation — each with rough dates (approximate, and often debated). Every person has their story in a sentence and a link to read their chapter; those with a film show a still and Watch the film, and where the family tree has them, a link to their place in it. The era buttons along the top jump straight to any age.

Yes — How are they connected?, at /family-tree/connect (the button at the top of the family tree). Choose any two people from Scripture's family records — type a name, and namesakes are told apart by whose son they were (Jonathan, David's friend, is not Jonathan son of Jada) — or try one of the pairs offered, such as Ruth & Jesus or Saul & David. It shows the line between them, a generation at a time: up from the first to the ancestor they share (marked ★) and down to the second, each step saying how it stands to the one before, with every name opening its place in the tree; long lines fold their middle until you ask to see it all. It says in a sentence how they are related — brothers, an ancestor so many generations back, or cousins (third cousins four times removed and the like). Wives, such as Ruth and Rahab, connect through their husbands, by marriage. Where Scripture lists someone with a tribe without giving every generation (Saul, Esther, Mordecai), the line still runs, but it says the record skips generations and does not count them. The prophets, the kings of the northern kingdom and the kings of Edom stand beside a family in the chart rather than in it, so they are not joined to anyone by birth, and it says so. Share this line sends a link to the same two people.

Yes — From Adam to Christ, at /family-tree (Family tree, under More in the menu, and a tile on the home page). It starts with Adam; click a person to open the next generation and click again to close it. The generation you just opened is shown on large cards — all of a person’s children, so opening Noah shows Shem, Ham and Japheth side by side — while the person you clicked and those above shrink so the tree stays compact. Anyone with a family of their own has a little fork of branch lines under their card, so you can see whom to open next. Along the top, the path lists every generation from Adam to the person you are at — click any name on it to go straight there — and a line under it says where you are and what to click next. Back undoes your last move. A person with a film is marked ▶ on their card, and the card you click leads on as well as down: to their film (both of David’s, for instance — David the Fugitive and David the King) and to their passage, and a wife’s film is on her husband’s card. The panel under the tree also shows their film from Bible stories, where there is one, as a thumbnail that plays full size right there, links to the hymns on their passage, and offers “About” them: the article from Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). The same article is offered under each Bible story’s film. The messianic line is drawn in coral; everyone off it sits under "Other children" on their father's card. Every family Scripture records is mapped too, over a thousand people: Cain's line, the Table of Nations, Nahor and Lot, Ishmael, Keturah, Esau and Edom, and all of 1 Chronicles 1–9 — the twelve tribes, the high priests from Aaron to the return, Saul's house, the nineteen kings of the northern kingdom (on Rehoboam's card, each dynasty from its founder), and the ancestries of Samuel, Joshua, Ezra, Zephaniah, Mordecai and Esther. The Levite families of 1 Chronicles 23–26 are there as well: the twenty-four priestly divisions (on Aaron's card), Eli's house down to Abiathar, the singers Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun with their sons, and the gatekeepers. From 2 Chronicles come the kings of Judah's households: Rehoboam's wives and sons, Jehoshaphat's other sons, Jehosheba who hid Joash, and the kings' mothers. "Family" (or ›) beside a name opens that family as a tree of its own, and the trail along the top takes you back. Where Chronicles lists people with a tribe without saying whose sons they are — Jabez, the kings of Edom — they sit in a list of their own rather than being drawn as anyone's sons. Long runs of fathers and sons show as one strip of names, so the tree stays short without leaving anyone out. After David it forks into the two Gospel genealogies — Matthew's kings through Solomon and Luke's line through Nathan — and both arrive at Jesus. Prophets aren't fathers in the line, so they sit beside the king or ancestor of their day under "Voices of this era". Each person carries the role Scripture gives them and a link to read their passage; "Main line" opens the whole spine at once, and the search box finds anyone and opens the way to them (type a name and press Enter for the top match, or use the arrow keys to pick another; wives such as Ruth and Rahab open their husband's card). The cards where the line enters a new era carry it as a small heading, so the tree reads as a timeline too: In the beginning (Adam), the Flood (Noah), the patriarchs (Abraham), slavery in Egypt, the Exodus, into Canaan, the judges, the united kingdom (David, about 1010 BC), the kingdom divides (Rehoboam, 931 BC), Samaria falls (Hezekiah, 722 BC), exile in Babylon, the return (Zerubbabel, from 538 BC), between the Testaments, and the time of Jesus. Also mapped: Jochebed beside Amram, Hannah beside Elkanah, Bathsheba beside Solomon, Jezebel beside Ahab; Gideon and his sons (with the clan of Abiezer in Manasseh) and Samson (with Dan); Job, set beside Jacob as of the patriarchs’ days, since the Bible gives no ancestry for him; Jesus’ brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas and his sisters, under Joseph; and on Jesus’ card the families around him — Zechariah and Elizabeth with John the Baptist, Zebedee and Salome with James and John, Clopas and Mary — and the house of Herod as the New Testament names it.

Yes — Christian leaders, at /leaders (under More in the menu, and a tile on the home page): some thirty men and women who have led and shaped the church over the last thousand years, from Anselm, Francis of Assisi and Aquinas through Luther, Calvin, Ignatius and Teresa of Ávila to Wesley, the Booths, C. S. Lewis, Bonhoeffer, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Pope Francis. They are shown on a timeline from the year 1000 to today, each life a bar coloured by its era — or, at the flick of a switch, by its tradition — pick one to see who they were, as on the family tree — or as cards by era (on a phone, slide the era tabs or swipe the cards sideways to move between eras), and can be narrowed to Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant and Anglican. Each has a full profile: for those who lived before 1900, the article from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) or McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia (1867–87), both public domain and each written from its own tradition’s point of view; for the twentieth century, and for Seraphim of Sarov and the Booths, a profile written for this site with the sources it was checked against. It is a selection, not a ranking.

A way through the Bible at a pace you choose. There are five things to read — the Gospels, the New Testament, the New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, the Old Testament, or the whole Bible — each offered over three months, six or twelve. The grid on the reading pane shows what each pairing asks of a morning, in chapters and in minutes, so you can see the cost before you commit.

Not to read one. Anybody can start a plan and work through it, and the first reading is a link you can open straight away. An account is what keeps your place from one day to the next — without one the plan lasts as long as the browser tab, and the page says so while you are reading as a guest.

Nothing is lost. A plan is paced but not dated: your place is how many readings you have finished, not what day it is, so a fortnight away leaves you exactly where you stopped rather than behind. If you would still like to finish by a particular date, the page tells you how many readings that would mean catching up — as information, not a telling-off.

Yes, and without losing anything. Pick the same plan at a different length — the New Testament in three months instead of six, say — and everything you have read comes with you. It is the same scripture either way; only the number of sittings it is divided into changes.

No — one at a time. It is a months-long commitment and one is the honest number, and keeping several meant two of every control on the page. Choosing a different plan switches to it: the same plan at another length keeps every reading you have done, and anything else starts from the beginning and asks you first. The plan you are on is starred in the grid.

Yes. A reading opened from your plan — from the plan page or the card under the day's verse — shows a line in the plan's colour under Read, Listen & Compare: the plan's name, which reading it is, and "Mark as read". Ticking it off there offers the next reading straight away, with an Undo in case it was a slip. The plan's name in that line takes you back to the plan.

"Leave this plan" on the plan itself. It asks first, because everything you have marked as read is forgotten with it and there is no undo. Starting the same plan again later begins it from the beginning.

"What you have read", on the plan and on your profile. It draws a bar for each track, filling from the left, divided into its books with every slice as wide as the book is long — so Psalm takes far more room than Philemon, as it should. Hovering a slice names the book and says how much of it you have read.

If you ask it to. There is a tick box on your plan — "Email me where I am in my reading" — and it is off until you turn it on. It sends the day's reading and how far along you are, nothing else, and the same box turns it off again. If you already get the daily verse, your reading is in that email instead, so nobody gets two.

A way to find scripture by how you're feeling rather than by a reference — love, anger, hope, patience, courage, and dozens more. Type a word and pick the chip it turns into; the verses beside it are curated by hand for that subject, not ranked by how often a chapter happens to repeat the word. Before you type, one subject at a time comes round every few seconds and is shown as if you had picked it — its chip and the verses it starts with — so there is always something to read; point at it to hold it, and press a verse to open it.

Nothing about the answer — the same hand-picked list of verses either way. This is the same feature given its own name and its own page, /topics (under More in the menu), so it can be found on its own rather than only by typing a feeling into a box meant for passage references.

Each subject the section knows, shown one at a time with its own small mark, its name, and the verse it starts from. It moves on every few seconds; tap it and that subject's verses come up straight away, the same as typing the word and picking it. It holds still while you hover over it, and stays put if your device asks for reduced motion.

Try a plainer word for the same feeling — “worried” finds what “anxiety” does, “brave” finds what “courage” does. The list knows a good number of the words people actually use, but not the word for everything; if it doesn't recognise yours, the closest subject usually does.

Yes — the sign-up under the day's reading sends it each morning. Only an address is needed; the name is optional. You'll get one email asking you to confirm, and nothing else until you do — an unconfirmed address is never mailed again.

Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and it works in one click without signing in or writing to anyone.

Yes — Share this verse, under the verse at the top of the home page, opens your device's share options, or copies a link where there are none. The link is that day's verse at an address of its own, and its preview in a message shows the words, the reference and the date. Step the slider back first to share an earlier day's.

Yes. Every subject in What's on Your Mind has a page of its own — /topics/anxiety, /topics/loneliness and so on — with its verses written out in the King James Version, a link into the reader for each, hymns on it and subjects to read next; the panel on /topics links to each one. Every Christian leader has one too, such as /leaders/martin-luther, with a summary of their life (and the profile written for the site, or a link to the full older encyclopedia account), their portrait where there is an honest one, and the leaders before and after them.

Yes — one episode each morning: the verse of the day read aloud, then the whole chapter it comes from, with the site's own quiet music ("Psalm") underneath, as on every episode of the site's podcasts, at /podcast (linked under the email sign-up and in the footer). It is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music (buttons on /podcast), and any other podcast app can follow it by its address, which the page lets you copy. The page plays the latest episode too, with a Download button to save it as an MP3; on the two New Testament shows' pages every episode has a ↓ download button beside its player. Downloads are counted (once per listener, episode and day, with no listener details kept — see the privacy page) so we can see which episodes are listened to.

The three-month New Testament plan, yes: The New Testament in 3 Months, at /podcast/new-testament. It is a numbered show of 91 episodes, one per reading of that plan, about three chapters and ten to eighteen minutes each in the King James Version — start at episode 1 and play the next whenever you come back. On that plan, "Listen as a podcast" on the plan page and "Podcast" on the home page's plan card open the episode for the reading you are up to; on the six- or twelve-month New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs plans it offers that show from episode 1, and on any other plan the New Testament show from episode 1. There is a second show for the three-month New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs plan — The New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs in 3 Months, at /podcast/new-testament-psalms-proverbs: the same New Testament readings with a psalm or two (and at the end, Proverbs) in each episode; readers on that plan are sent to it instead. Beside the plan card on the home page, a Podcasts button opens a short list: All Podcasts (the /podcast page), a line, then the three podcasts — The Daily Verse (its latest episode) and the two New Testament shows, the one matching your plan opening at your current episode. Under the plan card's Read today's button, All 15 Plans opens the plan page. Follow it in any podcast app by the address the page lets you copy. A podcast app cannot tell the site what you have listened to, so ticking the reading off is still done on the site.

The same verse as a notification on this device instead of an email, if your browser supports them. If you are signed in and reading a plan, it carries that morning's reading too. It asks your permission first, and turning it off in the browser stops it just as surely as the toggle does.

An assistant that can help you find a passage, explain a verse, or show you around the site. When it quotes scripture it reads the site's own text rather than reciting from memory, so the wording is exact.

It writes a short devotional reflection on the passage you're reading. It's a starting point for your own thinking, not a commentary to lean on.

Treat both as a helpful companion rather than an authority. They can be wrong or miss the nuance of a tradition — read the passage itself, and take anything doctrinal to your own church.

Only what you give us: your name and email if you make an account, and the reflections you post. No record is kept of what you read or listen to — narration is fetched by the words of the verse, not by who asked for it. The privacy policy has the detail.

Two kinds, and the difference matters. Your browser talks straight to Vercel, which hosts the site, and to Cloudflare, which runs the “are you human?” check and stores the audio and video the site plays back to you — those can see your IP address, the way any site you visit can. Everything else we call on your behalf, so it sees what was asked for rather than who asked: Turso holds the database, Google renders the narration and carries our email, Anthropic answers the assistant, and api.bible and bible-api.com supply the translations we don’t keep here. The privacy policy names every one and says what it receives.

No analytics, no advertising, no third-party trackers of any kind. The site sets one cookie of its own, and not until you sign in. Signed out, your typeface, text size, translation tabs and commentary tabs are kept by your own browser and never sent anywhere; signed in, they are saved to your account instead so they follow you between devices. The typefaces themselves are served from this site rather than fetched from a font service.

Yes. It follows the calendar — the church seasons, the day of the week, and a rotation through the year — on US Eastern time, and you can step back through the past week with the slider under it. For further back, "Past 30 days" on the line under the slider (left, with the daily podcast at the right) opens /verse: a calendar of the last thirty days' verses, each day opening that day's verse to read again or share.