01Get a Random Verse

The homepage draws a verse at random from the entire Bible using a cryptographically secure random number generator. The card shows the verse, its reference, and the heading of the passage it belongs to. Click the reference to open the verse’s full study page.

At the top of the card, Listen reads the verse aloud, and Aa opens the reading settings: typeface, text size, bold and italic, Strong’s underlines, and a mood backdrop matched to the verse. Below the reference are seven reactions, then four ways to open the verse without leaving the page: Context (the passage around it), Echoes (verses that resonate with it across Scripture), Insight (a short commentary), and Compare (the same verse in another version).

Another verse draws the next one. The play button beside it keeps drawing new verses by itself after a short pause, at the pace you choose. The arrows step back and forward through the verses you have drawn, and the clock button lists them all. The heart saves the verse to your favorites, and Share copies the verse, turns it into an image, or shares a link to it.

In the bottom row, Range decides how much of the Bible the next verse is drawn from. At the left is the whole Bible, all 31,102 verses. Slide right and the draw narrows to the best-known verses, down to the 100 most familiar, such as John 3:16 and Psalm 23:1. The ranking comes from the community votes on OpenBible.info’s cross-references: how often readers there were led to a verse, and from it. The draw stays random within whatever range you choose. The slider’s scale is logarithmic, so its middle is about 1,800 verses rather than half the Bible. Leave it at the left for everything. If you are signed in, your setting follows your account.

Below the card, the passage and the chapter around the verse open in place, each with a button that rolls a random one instead. Further down are articles to read and the site’s study tools. The search bar above the card takes a reference, a word, or a question.

The homepage verse card showing Psalms 139:23-24 drawn from the top 1,000 best-known verses, with Listen and Aa at the top, a row of seven reactions, Context / Echoes / Insight / Compare buttons, and a bottom row with the history button, Range, Another verse and its play button, and save and share — The homepage card, here with Range narrowed to the 1,000 best-known verses.

02Study Any Verse

Click any verse reference to open its study page. The verse sits at the top in six English translations: KJV, BSB, ASV, WEBM, the Geneva Bible (1599), and Young’s Literal Translation. The More languages… menu opens the same verse in dozens of other translations, and Compare sets several side by side.

Under the version tabs, choose how to read the King James text: plain Text, Strong’s, which links every word to its Hebrew or Greek entry, or Interlinear, which lays the verse out word by word in the original Hebrew or Greek, each word with its transliteration, English meaning, Strong’s number, and grammar. Below the verse, buttons copy it, share it, save it, or turn it into an image, and Ask opens a conversation with the AI about the verse you are reading.

Details opens the verse’s tags: the people it mentions, the period it belongs to, and its themes, and for most verses a biblical-era map. Every tag is clickable — tap "David" to see all verses mentioning him. Further down are the verse’s seven strongest Cross-References, strongest first.

Study This Verse holds the commentary under four tabs. Our Insight is the site’s own commentary, written for every verse and averaging about 2,200 words, in sections from summary, context, and exposition through theology, reflection, and a short FAQ. The other tabs are Matthew Henry, the Church Fathers (dated quotations from Christian writers between AD 100 and 1500, where they survive), and More Resources, a curated set of links to trusted study tools for that passage.

The verse study page for John 3:16: the title and passage link, the six English version tabs with More languages and Compare, the Text / Strong’s / Interlinear switch, the verse in red letters, Copy / Share / Save / Create image and Ask buttons, a Details row, and previous / random / next verse buttons above Cross-References — A verse page: six English translations, three ways to read the KJV text, and the verse’s details, cross-references, and commentary below.

03Ask the AI

The AI study assistant answers questions about Scripture using a curated set of trusted sources — verses across multiple translations, Strong’s word studies, commentary, and cross-references, with Matthew Henry and the Church Fathers when you turn them on. Every claim links back to the verse, word, or quotation it came from. Click any citation to verify it yourself.

Ask anything: "What does agape mean and where does it appear?", "Compare KJV and ASV on John 3:16," "Walk me through the structure of Romans 8." Conversations are multi-turn, so you can drill deeper on each answer. You can type your question or dictate it with the microphone button, in browsers that support voice input (Chrome, Edge, and Safari; not Firefox). The language button above the question box sets the language and Bible version the AI answers in for that conversation; your usual one is set in your account.

For a supporter, the AI page opens with three ways in below the question box. The first column picks up your recent conversations where you left off; before you have any, it suggests questions to try. The second lists the verses you have saved with the heart, ready to ask about one by one or all together. The third asks about a random verse, passage, or chapter — draw two and it asks how they connect. Past conversations can be pinned, renamed, or deleted, and Share makes a read-only link to a conversation that never shows your name.

The three columns under the AI question box: What you can ask, with five example questions; From your saved verses, listing John 14:27, Isaiah 40:31 and Psalms 23:1 with an Ask what runs through them link; and Something new, offering to ask about a random verse, passage, or chapter — The start page, for a supporter with three saved verses and no conversations yet.

Since 15 October 2026, AI study is for supporters: a gift of $5 or more can come with 25 conversations. An example conversation shows what one is like before you decide. There are no marketing emails, ever, and your past conversations are saved. Matthew Henry and the Church Fathers are off unless you turn them on — as your default from your account or the sources button under the question box, and for one conversation from the settings cog beside its reply box — and when you read in another language, the AI translates their words and says so.

The example AI study conversation, answering ‘The mercy seat in Exodus 25 and the “propitiation” in Romans 3:25 — what’s the connection?’, with linked verses and Strong’s numbers in the answer, and a Sources panel beside it listing every verse and Greek word cited — Every answer cites its sources inline — tap any verse, Strong’s number, or commentary link to verify it yourself.

04Study With Your Own AI

The Bible study MCP server brings the same sources into the AI app you already use. Add it to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Grok as a custom connector, or to any other app that accepts an MCP server, and your AI looks things up here while it answers you: verse text in 46 editions, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek, cross-references, the site’s commentary, Matthew Henry and the Church Fathers.

It is free and needs no account or key here; your AI app runs on your own plan with its provider, and the site sees only what your AI looks up, never the conversation. The address is https://mcp.trulyrandomverse.com, and the MCP Server page has the steps for each app and questions to start with.

The MCP Server page: the server address https://mcp.trulyrandomverse.com with a Copy button, marked Free, No sign-in or key and Read-only, beside a list of apps to choose from: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok — The address to paste, and the app to choose for its steps.

05Read in Any Language

The chapter reader displays full chapters in 46 Bible translations across 40 languages — including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, Bengali, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Hebrew, Persian, and many more. Right-to-left languages render natively. Choose a translation from the version button in the reader’s bar.

English chapters carry section headings and AI-generated study notes: the small mark after a verse opens its note. Chapter overview summarises the chapter and lists its people, places, and time period. The settings button switches between reader, list, and column layouts and holds the typography controls. The chapter name in the bar opens a menu that jumps to any book and chapter, and Ask AI asks the AI about the chapter you are reading.

In the King James, Berean Standard, and American Standard versions, Listen reads the chapter aloud. It can stop at the end, carry on into the next chapter, or move to a random one. If you follow the Ten Lists, it can also read the rest of your day: each chapter in turn, ticked off once it has been heard to the end.

To reach the chapter reader: click the passage or chapter link on any verse page, use Read the Bible or the Study Hub, or follow a link from the Ten Lists tracker.

The chapter reader showing John 3 in the King James Version: a bar with previous / next around the chapter name, then KJV, Listen, Ask AI, copy, and Aa; Chapter overview under the title; the heading ‘Jesus Teaches Nicodemus’; the words of Christ in red; and study notes in the margin — The chapter reader: the version, Listen, and Ask AI sit in its bar, and each lettered mark opens a study note.

06Search the Bible

The KJV was published in 1611. Words like "anxiety" do not appear in the text. The search engine bridges this gap. It searches by meaning, so "anxiety" returns KJV verses like "fearfulness and trembling are come upon me," "let not your heart be troubled," and "take therefore no thought for the morrow," along with the Hebrew word for anxiety, dᵉʼâgâh, which the KJV renders "heaviness."

Results are grouped into Scripture, Passages, Strong’s, Church Fathers, Articles, and Devotionals, with a tab for each. You can search by verse reference ("John 3:16"), by Strong’s number ("G25"), by topic, by phrase, or with a question. Each verse result can show its Context, be copied, or find Verses like this. For full conversational study, Ask AI about this takes your search to the AI.

Search results for ‘anxiety’: Ask AI about this beside the match count, tabs for All, Scripture, Passages, Strong’s, Church Fathers, Articles and Devotionals, and the first Scripture results, Psalms 55:5 and Deuteronomy 28:66, each with Context / Copy / Verses like this — Searching "anxiety" finds verses that never use the word, plus passages, Strong’s entries, Church Fathers, articles, and devotionals.

07The Ten Lists Reading System

Developed by Professor Grant Horner, this method divides the Bible into ten genre-based lists. You read one chapter from each list every day — 10 chapters total. Because each list is a different length, the daily combination never repeats in your lifetime.

The built-in tracker manages everything: click a card to read the chapter, mark it done, and advance to the next. Read in any translation on the site by choosing it from the Bible version menu, and if you began the plan somewhere else, Adjust dates takes the day you started and works out where each list should be. Your progress saves in the browser — no account needed. Sign in and it saves to your account instead, so it follows you to your phone.

The Ten Lists tracker on Day 1 with 1 of 10 completed: a Bible version menu, Mark all done, Adjust dates and Reset progress, and the ten list cards — Matthew 1 marked Done, then Genesis 1, Romans 1, 1 Thessalonians 1, Job 1, Psalms 1, Proverbs 1, Joshua 1, Isaiah 1, and Acts 1, each with a Mark done control — The tracker shows today’s 10 chapters, one from each list. Click any card to read, then mark it done.

08Explore by Topic

Every verse in the Bible is cross-linked to a tagging system covering nearly 5,000 topics, 3,000+ people, and 1,200+ places. Click any tag on a verse page to see every verse associated with it. Tap "Jerusalem" to trace it through Scripture, or browse all people, places, and topics from the tags index.

The article library contains 1,000+ articles on biblical stories, characters, themes, and theology — organized by category. The Strong’s Concordance provides a full lexicon for all 14,000+ Hebrew and Greek words in the Bible: a plain-language word study, how the KJV renders each word, its grammatical forms, related words, where it falls across the Bible, and every verse where it appears.

For daily reading, the devotional selects one verse each day with thematic commentary. The Study Hub brings it together: a search box that can also hand a question to the AI, the verses and searches you were last on, a verse to start with, and the chapters and passages people return to most.

There is more to find from the menus and the footer: the Apocrypha, a library of the Church Fathers, a liturgical calendar, a study of the structure of Revelation, visualizations of the whole Bible drawn from the site’s own data, and Bible trivia and a crossword.

The Strong’s Concordance entry for Greek G25 ἀγαπάω (agapáō): transliteration, pronunciation and an audio button, a Root / Meaning / KJV Usage card with an Ask about this word button, and tabs for Word Study, Renderings, Grammar, Related, Context, Distribution, and Occurrences — Every Hebrew and Greek word has a full study entry, with pronunciation and every verse it appears in.

09Save and Share

Tap the heart on any verse to save it. To save a whole page — an article, a devotional, a Strong’s entry — use Save to Favorites in the page menu (⋮) at the right end of the breadcrumb trail. Your favorites page shows everything you’ve saved, sorted by date added, Bible order, book name, length, or how well known a verse is, or shuffled at random. Export a backup saves the whole collection as a file you can import again later.

The background generator creates shareable verse images with custom styling — 40+ built-in backgrounds across five categories (gallery, nature, landscapes, abstract, textures), AI-generated backgrounds, and multiple aspect ratios for social media, phone wallpapers, or print. Images download privately; if you choose to send one to the community gallery, it is reviewed before it appears there.

Favorites are stored in your browser’s local storage. No account required, completely private. The trade-off: they do not sync across devices, and clearing browser data removes them. Export periodically as a backup. Sign in and they save to your account instead, so they follow you to your phone and survive a cleared browser. An account holds up to 200 favorites.

Browser Extension — for Chrome and Firefox. Click the icon in your toolbar for a random verse, the passage around it, search, and your favorites.

Install as an App — add TrulyRandomVerse to your home screen for a full-screen experience. On iPhone and iPad: Share → Add to Home Screen. On Android: the ⋮ menu → Add to Home screen or Install app. In Chrome or Edge on a computer, use the install icon in the address bar.

10With an Account

Nearly everything here works without an account. Sign in with Google and your account keeps these for you, on every device you use:

Favorites, with their notes, tags and collections, up to 200 of them.
Highlights you make in the chapter and passage readers, in four colours.
The Ten Lists: your ticks and the day you are on, so a reset on one device resets them all.
Your Bible version. The one you choose on your account sets the language and edition of the whole site, so the header has no language picker while you are signed in.
Homepage sessions: each run of verses you draw on the homepage is kept as a map you can revisit in your sessions.
Trivia and the crossword keep your progress, and trivia can build a quiz From my reading, out of the chapters you have read.
Recently viewed verses, and your recent searches only if you switch that on in your data.
The browser extension: pair it from your data and its favorites join your account.

AI study is the one part of the site for supporters: a gift of $5 or more can come with 25 conversations, and an example conversation shows what one is like. The free way to study with AI is the MCP server, in your own AI app.

There are no marketing emails, ever. From your account you can sign out your other devices or delete the account.

11Why This Approach Works

"The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD." — Proverbs 16:33

Most Bible readers develop a "canon within a canon" — returning to the same passages while entire books remain unread. Reading plans that start at Genesis often lose momentum before Exodus ends.

Randomness removes that pattern. When you do not choose what comes next, comfort zones disappear. After hundreds of random encounters, themes and connections across Scripture begin to surface on their own.

Combine random verses for depth with the Ten Lists for breadth, and you get both horizontal coverage (knowing the whole Bible) and vertical understanding (studying individual passages closely).