Bible Companion — the whole Bible, with this site beside it

Sources

The text

Berean Standard Bible, the official tab-delimited edition from berean.bible, dedicated to the public domain in 2023. Sixteen verses it keeps only in footnotes (Matthew 17:21 and the like) are shown here from the KJV, marked as such. Its red letters and footnotes come from the same publisher’s USFM edition.

King James Version (1769 text) via scrollmapper/bible_databases, public domain.

Majority Standard Bible, the Berean translators’ rendering of the Byzantine Majority Text, public domain alongside the BSB; and the World English Bible, an update of the 1901 American Standard Version, public domain (“World English Bible” is eBible.org’s trademark for faithful copies). Both from the USFM editions at eBible.org.

Audio: the BSB read by Bob Souer, Barry Hays, or Jordan Gilbert, dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0), streamed a chapter at a time from OpenBible.com.

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, gathered from the references of Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others and first published by Samuel Bagster & Sons in the 1830s (later reissued with an introduction by R. A. Torrey); public domain. Read from the tab-delimited developer export of 2011: 63,676 key words and phrases on 29,050 verses, pointing to some 306,000 passages. The phrases are the KJV’s own words, so they are underlined in each verse’s KJV line.

What sits beside the text

Every tag comes from the resource’s own citations, never from guessing at its subject. Each app’s stops, people, and cases are read from its source data; sermons from the passages Berean Community Church’s recordings name in their titles and speak aloud in their transcripts; blog pages from the references they print. The index lists every resource and what it is tagged with.

Maps from the Bible Mapper Atlas by David P. Barrett (text and maps © David P. Barrett), listed beside the chapters its own index assigns them to. The pictures load from biblemapper.com, which allows its maps’ non-commercial use when it is credited and linked; each card links its map’s post there.

Topics from the OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC-BY): the topics readers searched for, voted onto the passages that answer them. Most-voted cross-references from OpenBible.info’s cross-reference votes (CC-BY).

People from the Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0); each name opens its page in Every Word Entwined. Places: identifications from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0), mapped on OpenStreetMap and CARTO tiles.

Hebrew and Greek, word by word, and the section headings, from the BSB’s own translation tables and USFM text (public domain), which also place each original word in the BSB’s English for the underlines. Lexicon: for Hebrew and Aramaic, Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906; public domain), from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project’s digitized text and Strong’s index (CC BY 4.0); for Greek, G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1922; public domain), as formatted by STEPBible.org, whose Translators Brief lexicons (Tyndale House, Cambridge; CC BY 4.0) also give each word’s lemma, transliteration, part of speech, and gloss. Verse counts are the BSB tables’ own.

Creeds and confessions from the Compendium of Reformed Standards (Apache 2.0; the texts themselves are public domain), linked to reformedstandards.com. Doré’s engravings (1866, public domain) from Wikimedia Commons. Overview videos by BibleProject, linked.

Sermons: C. H. Spurgeon’s, indexed by the texts in the Spurgeon Archive and linked to spurgeon.org, with his Treasury of David on Blue Letter Bible; a hand-picked set of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s series at the MLJ Trust; and John Piper’s Look at the Book labs, linked by the passage each studies.

Changelog

10 Oct 2026Highlights in five colors: choose a verse and pick one in its panel, or press 1–5 (0 clears). Sign in with Google, from the top right on any page, and they follow you to every device along with the reading plan.
8 Oct 2026Restyled in the site's shared look: white, Helvetica, plain titles.
6 Oct 2026A reading plan: the Navigators Bible Reading Plan (once the Discipleship Journal’s), four readings a day through the whole Bible in a year. Tick each one off on the plan page or at the foot of the chapter, and it takes you to the next. Sign in with Google to keep your place on every device.
6 Oct 2026How a word is translated, counted: each Hebrew or Greek word’s card sums up its range in a sentence (“often ‘spirit’, ‘wind’, or ‘Spirit’; sometimes ‘breath’”) over a bar for every way the BSB renders it. Choose one to see just those verses. And the sidebar and the word card are easier to read.
5 Oct 2026The Hebrew or Greek beneath the English: the Hebrew (or Greek) button underlines every word of the BSB that renders an original word. Choose one for its lexicon entry, Brown-Driver-Briggs or Abbott-Smith, and from there every verse it stands in, charted by part of the Bible, with the word in bold.
3 Oct 2026A new name: Take Up and Read is now the Bible Companion, at the same address.
3 Oct 2026An app on your phone: in Safari, Share → Add to Home Screen. It opens full-screen, keeps every chapter you read for reading offline (Settings can save the whole Bible), and puts the audio on the lock screen with next and previous chapter.
2 Oct 2026Two more translations, the Majority Standard Bible and the World English Bible; a parallel view that sets any two side by side; and a Settings panel with prose (now the default) or verses, verse numbers, headings, red letter, and footnotes. And a Listen button: the BSB read aloud, chapter after chapter, by your choice of three narrators.
2 Oct 2026Easier to read: a white page with a dark mode, the text in a clear sans-serif by default (serif one click away), larger type in the sidebar, and the Hebrew and Greek word by word set larger, the Greek now in EB Garamond.
1 Oct 2026Where Were We?’s new chapters on Ecclesiastes, Jeremiah, and John appear beside the text.
29 Sep 2026Every Where Were We? chapter is linked beside the passage it retells.
24 Sep 2026First published.