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Every verse of the World English Bible, searched in your browser. Describe the person and the moment, type a phrase you half remember, or give a reference.
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. I’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, I translate and tell you what I 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.
- The person and the moment: a friend who is grieving, my dad before surgery, starting over. If I have a hand-picked page for it, it appears above the results.