Bible Study
Select up to 4 Bible translations and display them side by side. Choose a book, chapter, and up to 5 consecutive verses. You can also search for words or phrases in the first selected translation and jump straight to a matching verse. Use the commentary buttons next to each verse to open notes from Lightfoot, King, or Jewish Commentaries. You can also enable the original Hebrew/Greek text with Strong's details below.
Settings
Translations
Use each translation dropdown to pick up to 4 Bibles side by side. As soon as you change the passage or translations, the verse grid refreshes automatically.
Verse range
Type a book and chapter (for example: 1 John 5 or 1 John 5:1). Suggestions respect the real chapter end and show ranges of up to 5 verses.
Word search
Enter one or more words, such as Tree of life. The search is sent to API.Bible for the first selected translation, and the matching words are bold in the results. Click a result to study that passage.
Original text + Strong's
Use the Original text button on a verse to toggle only that verse's Hebrew/Greek panel and Strong's detail card.
Hover a word to preview Strong's numbers and click it to explore all possible glosses, lemma data, transliteration, and derivation.
Commentary buttons
Other Commentary opens BijbelAPI commentary for both Old and New Testament passages.
Jewish Commentary opens Sefaria commentary for Old Testament passages.
If no Scriptura commentators are enabled, the Other Commentary button is hidden.
1 John 2:3–6
EN - King James Version (Protestant)
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
PUBLIC DOMAIN except in the United Kingdom, where a Crown Copyright applies to printing the KJV. See http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
PUBLIC DOMAIN except in the United Kingdom, where a Crown Copyright applies to printing the KJV. See http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
PUBLIC DOMAIN except in the United Kingdom, where a Crown Copyright applies to printing the KJV. See http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
PUBLIC DOMAIN except in the United Kingdom, where a Crown Copyright applies to printing the KJV. See http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent
Original-language verse text is loaded from the installed Hebrew and Greek Bible sources in this app. The active source edition is shown above each original-text sentence.
Verse-aligned original-word tags, glosses, Strong's links, and grammar now come from the local STEPBible dataset submodule: STEPBible/STEPBible-Data. The TAGNT and TAHOT source files in that repository are published as CC BY 4.0.
Expanded Strong's-style meaning lists and derivation notes are supplemented from the local Open Scriptures Strong's dataset already present in this project. That supplemental dataset remains useful as long as these richer meaning lists stay enabled.