Bible Search – search and compare multiple versions of the Bible
How to Search the Bible
- in the phrase or keywords textbox, type any of the following:
- a phrase from the verse (e.g., “God is love”)
- any word(s) that are or might be in the verse (e.g., “repentance salvation”)
- a word segment from the verse (e.g., “baptis”)
- choose a range from the dropdown box that probably currently says “Entire Bible”:
- Entire Bible searches the entire Bible (i.e., Genesis through Revelation)
- Old Testament searches the entire Old Testament (i.e., Genesis through Malachi)
- New Testament searches the entire New Testament (i.e., Matthew through Revelation)
- all other options search a common range that’s a subset of these or a specific book of the Bible
NOTE: The larger the range, the longer it will take to search it, so choosing a smaller range is desired when applicable (e.g., if you know it’s in the New Testament, then choose New Testament for the range)
- using the remaining dropdown boxes, choose up to seven (7) translations
- click the Search button
Example Searches
- “love your neighbor” (Entire Bible)
- “the word of God doesn’t return void” (Old Testament)
- “love” (Gospel of John)
How It Works
Over 15 different translations° were converted into keywords:
- American Standard Version (ASV)
- Amplified Bible (AMP)
- Good News Bible (GNB)
- Septuagint (LXX)
- Greek New Testament with and without Strong’s Numbers
- King James Version (KJV) with and without Strong’s Numbers
- Latin Vulgate (VUL)
- New English Translation (NET Bible®)
- New American Standard Bible (NASB) with and without Strong’s Numbers
- New Century Version (NCV)
- New International Version (NIV)
- New King James Version (NKJV)
- New Living Translation (NLT)
- New Living Translation, 2nd Edition (NLT2)
- Transliterated Unaccented (TUA)
- Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
- World English Bible (WEBP)
° Due to copyrights, not all of these translations are available for viewing
It then searches your primary translation and these keywords, combining the results, ordering by relevance, displaying the entire verse (as opposed to a couple surrounding words, like most other concordances).
Then it pulls up the resultant verses in each of the subsidiary versions for instant parallel comparison.
Also, all the verses are linked to the Parallel Bible section, so that you can click the verse and see it with the context of its entire chapter!