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Read the Bible

A calm reader. Chapter and verse views, side-by-side translations, and a glossary of terms.

Books of the Bible

Pick a book to open it at chapter 1, verse 1.

Old Testament

39 books

New Testament

27 books
Gospels
4 books

Four accounts of the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Acts
1 book

The story of the earliest church and the spread of the gospel.

An apocalyptic vision of judgment, endurance, and the new creation.

Apocrypha / Deuterocanon

10 books

Second-temple histories included in Catholic and Orthodox canons.

Wisdom and prayer texts from the same second-temple tradition.

Versions

48 translations available across the reader. Default is KJV.

All other versions

33

The English Bible — a lineage

Sources at the top, present-day translations at the bottom. Lines trace what each version inherits from.

PastPresent
Hebrew TextMasoretic OTGreek TextLXX + Greek NTLatin VulgateJerome · c. 400Wycliffe1382Erasmus GNT1516 · Textus ReceptusDouay-Rheims1610Tyndale1525Coverdale1535Matthew Bible1537Great Bible1539Geneva Bible1560Bishops' Bible1568King James Version1611RV / ARV1885 / 1901NKJV1982RSV1952NASB1971NRSV1989ESV2001NAB1970NIV1978NLT1996CEB2011

Word-for-word ↔ Thought-for-thought

Where each translation sits on the spectrum from strictly literal (formal equivalence) to freely paraphrased (dynamic equivalence).

Literal · word-for-wordDynamic · thought-for-thought
Interlinear
NASB
ESV
KJV
NKJV
RSV
NRSV
CSB
NIV
NLT
The Message

Glossary

Search 44 terms from Scripture and biblical scholarship.