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Verse & Light

Bible Verses

There are 31,103 verses across 1,189 chapters in this translation. That is far too many to list, so this page is a map: four different ways in, depending on whether you know what you are looking for.

I don’t know where to start

Choose how you feel, what you are facing and what you need. The finder matches those preferences with a carefully tagged, verified passage.

Find my Bible verse

Give me one verse a day

A single verse chosen by the calendar date — the same for every visitor, with a permanent page for each day and an archive going back.

Today’s verse

I have a subject in mind

Hand-picked collections on love, anxiety, hope, strength, peace, faith, gratitude and encouragement, each passage with a note on what it meant in context.

Browse topics

Surprise me

Draw a verse from across the World English Bible, with optional testament, book and topic filters.

Choose a random verse

Published collections

Guides to reading

  • How to Read a Bible Verse in Context — A single verse can carry a lot of weight — and lose most of its meaning if you lift it out of the paragraph it lives in. Here is a simple method.
  • Encouraging Bible Verses for Difficult Days — Encouragement that lasts usually comes from passages written by people who were not having an easy time either. Here are eight, with their backgrounds.
  • How to Start Reading the Bible — Starting at Genesis 1 and reading straight through is how most first attempts end in Leviticus. Here is a plan that works better.