Bible studies
Free Bible studies, one chapter at a time. Read every verse, see who is speaking, and see what the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words say, in plain English.
Old Testament39 books, 929 chaptersNew Testament27 books, 260 chaptersOther Scripture1 of 215 books ready
How to read a study
- The verse
- Each verse is the World English Bible, or Brenton’s English of the Greek for Other Scripture. Words God speaks are printed in gold, and those verses are marked God speaks.
- In plain English
- The box under each verse starts with the verse in everyday words. This is SAM's explanation, not scripture.
- Notes
- When a Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek word matters, short notes follow: what the word is, how this Bible translates it, what changes if it is read another way, and where church tradition says more than the text does.
- Blue verse references
- Tap one to read that verse right there, without leaving the page. Tap again to close it.
- Show the Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek
- Tap it to see every Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek word in the verse: how to say it (the stressed part in bold), the word itself, and what it means.
- Mark as read
- At the end of each study, tap "Mark as read". The chapter turns solid blue with a check on the book's page, so you can see your progress. It is saved to your free SAM account.
Sources
- Verse text: World English Bible (public domain).
- Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words and word meanings: adapted from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), licensed CC BY 4.0. We changed how the pronunciations are spelled and shortened some meanings.
- Counts in the notes ("this Bible says ... about 9 times out of 10") are measured by SAM from the Hebrew and Aramaic text (Westminster Leningrad Codex) and the World English Bible, or, for the New Testament, from the Greek text (Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine edition) and the World English Bible, or, for Other Scripture, from the Greek text and Brenton's English.
- New Testament Greek: the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine text (public domain), the Greek the World English Bible follows.
- Other Scripture verse text: Brenton's English translation of the Septuagint (1851, public domain). The Greek each study is checked against is Swete's Septuagint (1930 edition, public domain), in the digital text at github.com/eliranwong/LXX-Swete-1930.