Reading companions

Open beside the text: the whole Bible with everything else here next to it, a recap for the chapters you read today, the cross-references, the translations, and one Hebrew word followed through a book.

Reader · the whole Bible, four translations

Bible Companion

The whole Bible in the BSB, KJV, MSB or WEB, alone, side by side, or read aloud. Beside each passage sit sermons from Spurgeon, Piper and others, the creeds, maps, Doré’s engravings, and every app and post on this site that cites it. Tap any word for its Hebrew or Greek, a lexicon entry and every verse it stands in. Installs to a phone’s home screen and keeps a reading plan in sync.

From the Berean texts, the KJV, Brown-Driver-Briggs and Abbott-Smith, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, and each sermon’s publisher · sources

Reading companion · eight books

Where Were We?

For a book read a few chapters a day: tell it today’s chapters and it recaps the argument so far, shows where today fits, and traces the threads back to what you have read. Genesis, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Luke, John and Hebrews.

From the BSB text, with each book’s recap checked against it · sources

Cross-references · 340,000 threads

Every Word Entwined

The threads that bind Scripture to itself, from any verse, topic, person or word. The underlined phrase in a verse is the one its cross-references hang on; click it to follow the thread.

From OpenBible.info’s cross-reference votes and topics (CC-BY), the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, and Theographic

Translations · five, verse by verse

In Other Words

The KJV, Young’s Literal, the ASV, the WEB and the BSB compared across 31,000 verses: where they disagree most, the verses that aren’t in every Bible, and which translations are closest kin.

From the five public-domain texts via scrollmapper and eBible.org; similarity is word overlap after folding archaic English

Word study · one Hebrew root

Understanding in Proverbs

Every occurrence of the root bîn, understanding, insight, discernment, in Proverbs: 67 in 61 verses, a map of what the book sets beside understanding and against it, and a concordance set as Hebrew lines.

From the Hebrew text of Proverbs, with the ESV’s renderings beside it

Reference finder · spoken sermon text

Chapter and verse

Preachers say “Romans chapter eight verse twenty-eight”, “Second Peter” or just “verse 29”. Paste sermon text and every reference is found and turned into a passage, in your browser, with the passages cited most across about 2,900 sermon transcripts.

Rules tested against Claude-labeled snippets, with a small model as an option · sources

Topic tagger · runs in your browser

What is this sermon about?

Paste a passage from a sermon and a small model trained on Claude’s labels names its topics, from grace and election to suffering, money and the end times, then shows the topic mix of every series in a church’s sermon archive.

Topics grounded in the doctrine apps’ questions; labels and scores on the page · sources

Guided walks

One thing at a time, slowly: the temples in three dimensions, Paul’s gospel in five sentences, what an ordinary Sunday holds, and the people who staked their lives on a promise.

3D · the camp and four temples

Sacred Spaces

Walk the camp of Israel, look over the high priest’s garments, and walk through Solomon’s, Ezekiel’s, Zerubbabel’s and Herod’s temples, in annotated models built in Blender, with a note on where the text stops and the modelling guesses.

From Exodus 25–28, 1 Kings 6–7, 2 Chronicles 3–4, Ezekiel 40–48, Josephus and the Mishnah’s Middot · notes

Guided walk · Romans, five sentences

The Romans Road

Paul’s gospel in five sentences from his letter to Rome, walked slowly, with every claim linked back to the argument around it.

KJV text; connections from OpenBible.info’s cross-references (CC-BY)

Guided walk · Ephesians 1:3

Every Spiritual Blessing

What prophets and kings longed to see, sitting inside an ordinary Christian Sunday: waking forgiven, an open Bible, folding chairs, bread and a cup. A slow scroll through the riches, with Scripture.

BSB text; each quotation’s edition and context in its own source note

Lives · twenty witnesses

A Cloud of Witnesses

Twenty Christians, from Stephen to Mehdi Dibaj, who staked their lives on a promise of God: what they were promised, what they said when it was tested, and what happened.

From the witnesses’ own words: the Martyrdom of Polycarp, Foxe, Judson’s journal, Müller’s Narrative, The Hiding Place, Dibaj’s court defence and more, each in a source note

Maps, trees & timelines

The shape of the whole: the kings and prophets on one clock, Adam to Jesus on one line, every chapter as a constellation, and how the English Bible and the church itself branched.

Timeline · forty-two thrones

The Line of Kings

Six centuries, two kingdoms: the reigns of Israel and Judah and the prophets from Elijah to Malachi untangled on one timeline, co-regencies hatched, and each king judged as Kings and Chronicles judge him.

Dates after the ESV Study Bible’s charts of the kings; post-exile dates from Ezra–Nehemiah’s Persian regnal years

Genealogy · sixty-four generations

The Book of the Generations

Adam to Jesus on one descent chart, from Genesis, Ruth 4, the kings of Judah and Matthew 1: the promise line, the branches that leave it, the mothers the text names, and every lifespan Genesis states on one axis.

Ages from the Masoretic text as printed in the ESV; where Scripture gives no age, none is shown

3D graph · 1,189 chapters

The Living Word

Every chapter of the Bible as a light in one constellation, joined by its strongest cross-references, with doctrines, people and topics as overlays and a reader that opens any chapter.

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, distilled from about 590,000 verse references to 3,500 chapter links, and OpenBible.info’s topics

Family tree · the English Bible

The Translation Tree

How the English Bible descends, from Wycliffe and Tyndale through the KJV to the ESV, NASB, LSB and beyond: every major translation, and the stream of original text each one drinks from.

Streams follow each version’s New Testament base text; dates are first complete editions; licences from each text’s eBible.org page

Family tree · AD 33 to now

The Denomination Tree

How one church became many: from the undivided church through the Great Schism and the Reformation to the Pentecostals and the non-denominational tide, every branch and where it came from. Placement describes history, not judgment.

Dates mark formal separations, foundings or unions; adherent figures are rough 2020s estimates

Map · 7,500 churches

A Church Nearby

Every church in the 9Marks directory and The Master’s Seminary church finder on one map, 7,500 congregations across 67 countries, and the American metros farthest from any of them.

From the 9Marks church search and the TMS church finder; a listing is information, not endorsement

Doctrine

What Christians believe and divide over: the questions sorted by how much hangs on them, the positions and the verses each side leans on, and who holds what, each stance cited to something the person published.

Positions · questions by tier

Where They Stand

The questions Christians divide over, sorted by triage tier, with the positions on each, the Scripture each side leans on, and where well-known Christians land. Plot any two questions against each other, or compare two people.

Every stance cites something its holder published; tiers after Mohler (2005) and Ortlund’s Finding the Right Hills to Die On (2020) · sources

Sorting room · four levels

Theological Triage

Al Mohler’s triage of Christian doctrine, demonstrated: four priority levels, the questions that decide a ranking, and a sorting room where you take the clipboard yourself.

Framework after Mohler (2005), with a fourth level after Minter; KJV text · sources