Simple Parallel Bible

Enter passages you wish to view or compare (each of a chapter or less). For example...

• Here are some excerpts from sermon on the mount
• plus three classic chapters by the apostle Paul,
• about half of Jesus' parables
• and even the rich young ruler in parallel.

This page shows how to use the Bible query and search.

Verse references

matt 5:43-48; 6:5-8; 6:19-21; 7:24-28

book names can be shortened, and there is no need to repeat them for successive passages in the same book

matt 19:16-30 | mark 10:17-31 | luke 18:18-30

parallels are easy with pipes (SHIFT-Backslash)

philemon or 2 john 2-3

you don't need to enter chapter numbers for single-chapter books

matt 13:1-3, 24, 31

commas can be used to provide a list of verses from a single chapter, in the conventional manner. An ellipsis (…) will show any gaps in the resulting text

php 2 or jn 3:1-2, 4, 9

as well as allowing shortened book names, some common abbreviations are also recognized

Bible searching

grace peace

entering something that isn't a reference drops you into a search of the New Testament for a verse containing ALL terms entered

god lov

partial words will be matched — so lov matches love, loved, loving, pavlova, and so on

grace peace love

adding more search terms will narrow down the search results

SHINE

entering a search in capitals will search the Old Testament instead — a little quirky, but it keeps the interface nice and simple

Creating links

As shown above, you can link to passages (and searches) directly.

For example, when linking to John 15:1-7 from one of this site's pages, you would use index.php?q=john+15.1-7 for the link.

Spaces become '+' plus signs, and colons become '.' fullstops.

Obviously, if you are linking from another site, or from an email, you will need to add this site's URL to the beginning of any link.