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Every verse of the World English Bible, searched in your browser. Exact phrases, topics, references, or plain questions.
All Scripture text on Better Verses comes from the World English Bible (WEB), a modern-English translation in the public domain. The search recognizes approximate wording and the common ways people remember passages, but results are always displayed from the WEB.
What you can type
- A phrase you remember: be still and know, love is patient, camel through the eye of a needle. Put it in quotes to require the exact words.
- A topic: verses about debt, forgiveness, clay. Related words are included and labelled.
- A saying you think is in the Bible: God won’t give you more than you can handle, money is the root of all evil, the lion and the lamb. We’ll tell you whether it’s a verse, a misquote, or not Scripture at all, and show the closest real one.
- Wording from the Bible you grew up with: whosoever believeth, fear not, smite, the LORD Almighty. Where the World English Bible uses different words, we translate and tell you what we did, with a link to search for exactly what you typed instead.
- A person, story, or event: Moses burning bush, Zacchaeus, the prodigal son, water into wine.
- A reference: John 3:16, Psalm 23, Matt 6 25-34.
- A person or section: Jesus on worry, Paul and running a race, Proverbs about the tongue.
- What you’re facing: starting over, can’t sleep. If we have a hand-picked page for it, it appears above the results.