A Bible site built from a daily habit.

My name is Faisal Alsarraf. I was born in Houston, Texas, in 1987, and I've lived here all my life. I believe in Jesus Christ, and 2009 is the year I count as being truly born again.

Not long after that, I bought a little book of Bible verses from Half Price Books. I was going through a low period and wanted encouragement, so I would open it at random, hoping to find something I needed to hear. It was a small beginning, but the habit stayed with me.

Before long, I found websites that did the same thing. I kept one open throughout the day, on my computer or phone, and I have done so almost every day since. What began as a search for encouragement became part of how I liked to find inspiration and investigate the Word of God spontaneously, and along the way I learned its larger story and grew in my faith.

I'm not a pastor or a theologian, and this site isn't an institution speaking on behalf of one. I'm a Christian who has spent years reading the Bible this way and wanted to build a better place to do it.

I launched TrulyRandomVerse in early 2024, after about fifteen years of using random Bible verse websites. I had ideas about what would make one more useful: genuine randomness, an easy way to move from one verse to the next, a clean reading experience, and the context and study resources close at hand.

I had also wanted to learn software development for a long time. I have been going through prolonged trials in life, and I still am, and building something gave me a worthwhile place to put my attention. So I started with a simple version of the site, made for myself and a few people around me. I shared it, kept using it, and kept adding the things I wished it had.

That's still how much of the work happens. I use the site, notice what is missing or could be better, and work on it. Over time, that small project grew into the platform you see today.

Most of what we read during the day is selected for us by a feed, a schedule, or our own habits. We naturally return to familiar passages. A random draw offers a different way in: every verse in the Bible has the same chance of appearing, including one you might never have thought to look up.

Scripture records God's people casting lots at decisive moments. The land was divided by lot, and the apostles filled Judas's place that way (Acts 1:26). Since 1731 the Moravian church at Herrnhut has drawn its daily watchword by lot. Here the draw is made by a Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator, the same class of algorithm used in banking and encryption, and it is uniform across all 31,102 verses. Daily integrity reports go into the Randomness Archive if you'd like to check.

I don't believe a random number generator can tell someone what God is saying, or that every verse that appears is a private message meant for that moment. The draw is simply a way of choosing what to read. What matters is the Scripture itself, read carefully and in context.

For me, the practice has often been less about one isolated verse and more about the sequence: what comes up, what I read around it, and the connections I notice along the way.

TrulyRandomVerse is a random Bible verse site first. Around each verse is a growing set of resources for following the passage into its wider context: the chapter and passage, related passages, Hebrew and Greek word information in Strong's Concordance, commentary, articles, and study material for the books of the Bible. From there you can follow a person, place or topic through Scripture with the verse tags.

The aim is to make useful reference material easier to reach, so that a verse can be read as part of the chapter, the book, and the larger story of the Bible.

1. 01

   Read the passage

   A verse is a starting point into the chapter around it.

2. 02

   Follow the connections

   Cross-references and related passages help show how Scripture speaks across books.

3. 03

   Look at the words

   Hebrew and Greek tools offer another way to examine what the text says.

4. 04

   Check what you read

   Commentary and study notes are references to weigh against Scripture.

AI is a significant part of how TrulyRandomVerse is built. It has written the site's code from the first version onward, and it now helps produce much of the explanatory material. I direct the work, decide what the site should do, review changes, test them against the live data, and keep refining the results.

I was cautious about using AI for Bible content. For the first year, I kept it out of the writing. In early 2025, I began using it to explain the context around individual verses. The results were useful enough to pursue, provided the writing was grounded in reference material and checked rather than simply accepted.

Scripture itself is not written by AI. Bible translations, Strong's data, cross-references, and historical commentary are drawn from their respective texts and datasets. AI produces the site's original explanations, articles, the daily devotional, and much of its study writing.

That distinction matters. AI-generated material can be wrong, and no amount of automation makes it an authority. I work to identify and correct errors, improve the instructions and sources behind the writing, and make the material more dependable over time. If you find a clear factual error, I want to hear about it, through the contact page or at [email protected].

Ask AI works from the same sources and links every claim back to where it came from. You can also give an AI app you already use the same sources through the site's free MCP server, and the connect page shows how.

TrulyRandomVerse is an independent resource, not a church, denomination, seminary, or publisher. It does not claim to settle every interpretive question. Where faithful Christians differ, the site's explanatory writing aims to represent widely attested readings rather than present one denominational position as the only possible answer.

The study library draws on public-domain and openly licensed works, including the King James Bible, Strong's Concordance, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Matthew Henry, and writings from the early church fathers. The source and licensing information is at the foot of this page so readers can see where the material comes from.

I'm working toward accuracy, but I won't claim perfection. The writing and data are continually reviewed and improved. Important claims should be checked against Scripture and the cited sources.

The random verse draw, Bible texts, and study library are free to use, and no account is required for the core experience. The site has no advertising or sponsors, and signing in doesn't put you on a mailing list. It is built and maintained independently, and its running costs are kept as low as I can manage.

Ask AI is a separate, supporter-funded feature because each conversation has a real operating cost. The site's MCP connection is available as a free way to use its reference sources with other AI applications.

If TrulyRandomVerse has been useful to you and you'd like to help with its upkeep, you can support the project. There is no obligation, and I'm grateful simply that people find it worth using.