A Bible research engine
King James, Berean Standard, New World Translation (NWT), Reina-Valera and more, in hundreds of languages, side by side. Regular expressions, proximity across verse boundaries, fuzzy matching, results as you type. Then turn what you find into a comment worth making — in either language, on a phone, with no signal.
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Personal study · Group discussion · Bible reading · Verse-by-verse analysis
Why a Bible engine lives in a coaching tool
Comment Coach exists to help you say something well — usually to a group, often in a language you are still growing into. That needs source material, and most source material is a poor fit for it. It exists in one language, or its translations do not line up, or it is copyrighted, or everyone in the room is reading a different edition of it.
Scripture is none of those things, and one property in particular is why this engine is here rather than somewhere else: it is aligned. Genesis 1:1 is Genesis 1:1 in every one of the 179 translations and 64 languages this catalog carries. That mapping is exact, and it is free — no translation engine, no drift, no guessing which sentence corresponds to which. For anyone studying in a second language that turns the whole library into a parallel corpus you can read both halves of and be certain the halves match. The original-language layer takes it one step further, to the Hebrew or Greek word standing behind both of them.
So the Bible is not here because of who the audience is. It is here because very few large bodies of text are parallel across dozens of languages at verse granularity and openly licensed in most of their editions — and none of the others is the thing this audience was already preparing to speak about.
How it compares
Set against the tools people actually reach for, the picture is lopsided in both directions and it is worth being honest about each. Logos and Accordance are libraries with a search box attached; their value is thousands of licensed volumes and the datasets built over them. This has no library and no plans for one. On that axis the gap will not close, and pretending otherwise would be checkable in a minute.
The real comparison is with Blue Letter Bible and STEP Bible — free, browser-first, Strong’s-aware, no account required. On reference depth they win: they have full lexicons and commentaries, and this has brief glosses. On search mechanics it is not close in the other direction. Fuzzy matching, regular expressions over the whole canon, proximity across verse boundaries, results as you type, distribution normalised by book length — none of the five tools we checked offers those, and six capabilities on this page exist in none of them at all.
And there is one difference none of them can close by adding a feature. Every other tool hands you a verse and stops. This one knows you found it because you have something to say on Thursday, and the same verse becomes a draft you are working on — in whichever of two languages you are thinking in, on a phone, with no signal.
How It Works
179 translations available. Search by reference ("Heb 6:10"), keyword, or browse the book navigator. Install Bibles from the catalog with one click.
Press C to enter selection mode. Click verses to select, Shift+Click for ranges. Tap any verse number to compare it across all installed translations.
The selected verses become your source text. Write in English, Spanish, or both. Add tags to organize by topic. Comments auto-group into subjects by chapter.
AI coaching scores your comment for clarity, depth, and relevance to the passage. Suggestions help you share observations that are meaningful and well-expressed.
Browse → Comment
Read a chapter, select the verses that stood out, and write your comment right there. No switching between apps or copying references by hand.
Comment opens the same workbench you write in everywhere else, with your selected verses as its source — coaching, ideas and translation included. It saves as you type, and Done takes you back to the verse.
"For God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name..."
"This verse highlights a quality of God that brings comfort — he remembers our efforts even when others might not notice them..."
Consider adding a practical application — how does this quality affect daily life or interactions with others?
"for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name..."
"Porque Dios no es injusto para olvidar vuestra obra y el trabajo de amor que habéis mostrado a su nombre..."
"For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name..."
Compare Translations
Add Bibles as columns and read them side by side — English, French, Hebrew, whatever you have installed, each in its own direction. Click any verse number to see it across every Bible at once.
Noticing how different translations render the same verse often reveals nuances you'd miss reading just one version.
Everything it does
Every capability, grouped by the job it does. Four of them are offered by none of Logos, Accordance, Blue Letter Bible, STEP Bible or e-Sword — those are marked. The table below compares all six tools row by row.
148 install from the catalog in one tap; the other 31 you import from their publisher. Two come bundled, so search works before you add anything.
EPUB, MySword, e-Sword, JSON or SQLite, in any language. Drop the file — the format is detected, and it opens straight in the reader.
Download the New World Translation EPUB from its publisher in French, Hebrew, Tagalog or any other language and it imports whole — every book recognised by its place, named in its own words.
Deuterocanonical books import, search and browse under their own names, in their traditional order.
Everything is stored in your own browser. Read and search on a phone with no signal. Install it as an app.
Export the whole library, restore it on another device, or sync two devices directly.
Bring in an audio or video file and it becomes study material: mark a moment with one tap while it plays, transcribe it, and comment on any paragraph. Every note is tied to the second it belongs to, and the transcript is kept on your device rather than on our servers. How it works.
The workbook already says which weeks it covers, and the study article prints the week it is considered. Import the file and those dates come with it — read, then checked against the calendar, in English and Spanish alike. Nothing to maintain, which is why it is still right in March.
The publication prints every part and how long it is given. So the week that is on now offers Run it, and it loads the real programme by name with the publisher’s own times. Nobody builds a template on a Thursday evening while people are arriving. Start it on the day and the clock anchors to the hour — sitting down at 7:04 shows four minutes gone.
Say which part is yours and rehearse it against its own budget: 4:22 / 4:00, and whether the last run fitted. Going over is the real worry of a timed part, and it is the one number a calendar can never show you.
Subscribe one read-only link from Google, Apple or Outlook and your meetings appear where you already look, with a reminder at the hour you prepare. We would rather feed the calendar on your lock screen than ask you to check a second one.
Ranked, typo-tolerant, and accent-folded so Spanish works whether or not you type the accents. Hebrew and Arabic match without their vowel marks, and Chinese, Japanese and Thai are searched word by word.
Served from indexes already in memory, so a keystroke never waits on a load.
Quote an exact phrase. faith OR hope and faith NOT works both do what they say.
Real regular expressions over the whole Bible: every form of a word, or every verse that is a question. Runs on your phone in milliseconds.
Search by H/G number and get the same complete verse list in every translation you have — including ones carrying no tagging at all, because the layer is keyed to the original text rather than to anyone's rendering of it.
Every aorist passive participle, every niphal imperfect, or one Strong’s number in one form — H1254 qal perfect finds “created” in Genesis 1:1. The parsing of all 447,000 words, searched in a line of plain grammar.
A book, a range, a chapter, the Gospels, the Prophets, a testament — read out of what you typed and offered as a chip. Nothing to memorise.
Same verse, within a number of verses, same chapter, same book — with the widest gap reported for each group.
A strip across the whole canon, counted before any cap and regardless of your scope — so it can tell you “not here, but sixty-one times elsewhere.”
Raw counts partly measure how long a book is. Divide by verse count and a short book stops being punished for being short — which changes the answer, not just the chart.
A saved search restores what it was aimed at, not only the words. Pattern searches keep their flags.
Add any installed Bible as a column, each headed with its own name, book and chapter — and linked to that chapter online. Tap a verse number to see it in every Bible at once. No cap, no upsell.
One tap opens the verse in every Bible you have, its Hebrew or Greek word by word, its cross-references, and your own comments on it — a sheet on a phone, a panel beside the text on a wide screen.
Words, words near each other, a concordance count and Strong’s — over this chapter, this book or the whole Bible — and a result takes you to the verse with the list still there to step through.
Five highlight colours, on one verse or a whole selection, and bookmarks — all gathered on one page. They need no account; sign in and they follow you to every device.
Select a word to define it, or a phrase to see it in your other language, in the column you selected it in. Nothing is saved; it is there to read and gone.
A column is headed with its translation’s name and its book and chapter, in its own language. The name opens a page about that Bible — publisher, edition, copyright — and the book and chapter open that place online.
A play button on every column reads it in a voice for its own language — about 45 of them — so the English and the French can be heard in turn.
Put two translations of a verse together and the words that actually differ are marked — in any two you have installed, including ones you imported yourself.
Notes from the publication you imported, lettered across the chapter and opened where the marker falls.
Where a Bible you import carries a glossary, appendix, book outlines or map places, they are there to consult — and a footnote that points to one opens it in place.
English and Spanish, including compact forms like ge1.3-5,7, with the verse previewed before you press Enter.
Hebrew psalm superscriptions and the New Testament splits are mapped, so a reference means the same verse across traditions.
Read through the Bible by day, in blocks or along a timeline, in chronological order if you prefer, with your progress kept.
Strong's codes, morphology, readable grammar and glosses — stored once and shared by every translation, rather than paid for per Bible.
Any verse word by word in its original language, Hebrew reading right to left as it should, each word opening to its full parsing.
The English the Berean Standard Bible uses for it, most frequent first: H2617 is loving devotion forty-four times and kindness twenty-four.
The words carrying that original word are marked in the line — shown rather than asserted. This works while you read a Spanish or NWT text that carries no tagging of its own and never will.
Occurrences, not just verses: Jehovah is 6,889 times across 5,822 verses in the ASV. It also names where your translations disagree most.
Not just a gloss: the whole article for every Hebrew and Greek word — abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs and Abbott-Smith — its references linked into the reader, and there offline once opened.
Under any New Testament verse, the words some printed Greek editions lack — NA28 and 27, Tyndale House, SBL, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine — with who prints them, and the readings an edition has instead.
Each verse links out to BibleHub for dozens more languages, and every verse from Matthew to Revelation to the Kingdom Interlinear on jw.org — links, so nothing is copied here.
Each carrying the number of readers who marked it, so a connection nine hundred people make reads differently from one that two do.
Three and a half thousand references sit at zero votes or below. A connection its own contributors voted down is not one this app will assert.
Not one verse — the entire result set, ranked by how many of your results agree. It surfaces passages that none of them mentioned by name.
Describe what you are looking for and the search is written for you — editable, with the engine chosen and explained. Needs an account and a connection; everything else here works without either.
It cannot misquote a verse and cannot invent a citation, because neither is in its output. Only your question and the translation's name ever leave the device.
The verses come from a deterministic scan of your own text, and will still be the same verses years from now with no model involved.
Select what you found and it becomes a comment you are writing — without leaving the app or losing the reference.
Clarity, conciseness, depth and relevance, with the speaking time as you type. Your wording, made clearer — not replaced.
The menus are in English and Spanish; the Bibles are in whatever language they were published in. Book names come from the edition itself, and Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and other right-to-left scripts run right to left.
Rehearse your comment against the time you actually have, then hear it back. Or record the talk and tap once when something is worth answering. Free, no account, nothing uploaded — try the recorder.
Checked on 26 September 2026 against the five tools named above, from their own documentation; the table below shows every answer and where it came from. Not a superlative — a comparison you can repeat.
Six Bible tools, twenty things a student of the text reaches for. The other five columns come from each tool’s own documentation; where it did not settle a question, the cell says so rather than guessing.
| Capability | Comment Coach | Logos | Accordance | Blue Letter Bible | STEP Bible | e-Sword |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free to use | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Works offline | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Runs in a browser, nothing to install | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Translations side by side in columns | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Import your own Bible files (EPUB, MySword, e-Sword, JSON) | Yes | Partly | Partly | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Partly |
| Bibles in any language, right-to-left included | Yes | Partly | Yes | Partly | Yes | Partly |
| Search every translation at once | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Boolean and proximity search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Partly |
| Regular-expression search | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Strong’s number search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Strong’s search in an untagged translation | Yes | No | Partly | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Search by parsing (tense, voice, mood, stem) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Interlinear | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly |
| Full lexicon entries | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| Textual variants | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Cross-references | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Word-level differences between translations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Commentaries and reference library | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Personal notes and highlights | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Audio or read-aloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes |
● yes · ◐ partly · — no · ? not confirmed by the tool’s own documentation
Where Comment Coach is partial: its lexicon is abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs and Abbott-Smith, not BDAG, HALOT or LSJ; its variants show which of eight printed Greek editions carry each word, not a manuscript apparatus; its notes are verse comments you draft and refine, alongside highlights and bookmarks, with no separate note layer. It has no commentaries or reference library, and is not trying to.
Checked on 26 September 2026 from each tool’s own documentation: Logos · Accordance · Blue Letter Bible · STEP Bible · e-Sword
Ways to Use It
Daily verse reflection
Read a chapter, select the verse that resonates, write a quick observation. Build a journal of insights over time.
Prepared participation
Prepare verse-grounded comments before your group meets. Coach your wording for clarity and substance.
Compare translations
Install multiple translations and compare how each renders key passages. Discover nuances across versions.
EN/ES side by side
Read in your stronger language, write comments in both. Practice expressing scriptural concepts in your second language.
Reading, searching and comparing need no account at all. One is only needed to save your own comments.
to save comments and coaching
Translations are named only to say this reader opens them. Comment Coach is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any Bible publisher — including the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society or Jehovah’s Witnesses. Each translation’s text belongs to its rights holder.