This is a tiny little web app that provides a JSON API for grabbing bible verses and passages.
This service is provided by Tim Morgan. You can get the source code for this app and the open data for its database at https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api.
https://bible-api.com/BOOK+CHAPTER:VERSEYou can get pretty crazy with book names and with verse ranges using commas and hyphens. It mostly just works. (Though, if it doesn't, you can submit an issue and let us know!)
| Language | Name | Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | Cherokee New Testament | cherokee |
| English | Bible in Basic English | bbe |
| English | King James Version | kjv |
| English | World English Bible | web (default) |
| English (UK) | Open English Bible, Commonwealth Edition | oeb-cw |
| English (UK) | World English Bible, British Edition | webbe |
| English (US) | Open English Bible, US Edition | oeb-us |
| Latin | Clementine Latin Vulgate | clementine |
| Portuguese | João Ferreira de Almeida | almeida |
| Romanian | Protestant Romanian Corrected Cornilescu Version | rccv |
Help us add more bible translations! Contribute to our repository of open and freely-licensed bibles.
This service is free for anyone to use as long as you don't abuse my server. I reserve the right to block any IP that hits this service too frequently and degrades the service for others. I make no guarantees about this service's availability, quality, or correctness.
If you need more reliable service, remember you can grab the code and data for this site here and host it yourself!