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Check any verse for yourself.
Compare four public-domain translations side by side — or choose from fifteen, including Darby, the Geneva Bible of 1599 and the Jewish Publication Society's TaNaKH. Read the Hebrew or Greek behind them, and follow the cross-references. No account, no paywall.
Examine a question
All questions →- What does it mean to examine the Scriptures for yourself?
A study of the Bereans’ example and the Biblical balance between receiving instruction, testing claims, and submitting our conclusions to Scripture.
- Does God still want me after what I've done?
Examine what Scripture says about guilt, shame, repentance, forgiveness, hard warning passages, and consequences that may remain.
What are you trying to work out?
Start where you actually are. Each of these opens Scripture on the question, with the passages in front of you.
- Someone told me the Bible says something. How do I check?A study of how the Bereans tested what they were taught
- I'm grieving someone I've lost.A seven-day reading plan
- I don't know how to pray.A seven-day reading plan
- I'm new to the Bible. Where do I start?A seven-day reading plan
- I could use some encouragement.A seven-day reading plan
- Who was Jesus, actually?The passages where Jesus is identified with God
- What is God actually like?What Scripture says about God's character
- What does God ask of me?The Ten Commandments, in context
- What did Jesus actually teach?An eight-lesson study of the Sermon on the Mount
- What does faith look like when life is hard?A study of people Scripture calls faithful