Search the text of Scripture

Full-text search across all 31,102 verses of the Berean Standard Bible — how you find a passage you can half-remember but cannot cite.

All words must appear in the same verse. Wrap words in double quotes to require them adjacent as a phrase ("a still small voice"). Results rank by how much of the verse is your query, so short exact matches come first.

get/scripture

Request

  • Base URL: https://vineverse.bible/api/v1
  • URL: https://vineverse.bible/api/v1/scripture
  • Auth: none required

Query parameters

qstring required

Words to find. Double quotes require adjacency.

bookstring

Restrict to one book, by slug or OSIS id. See /vocabulary.

testament'OT' | 'NT'
limitinteger
offsetinteger

Skip this many results. Compare with total in the response to page.

Response

Matching verses, best match first.

querystring required
totalinteger required
offsetinteger
countinteger required
termsstring[]

How the query was tokenised.

phrasesstring[]

Quoted runs, required adjacent.

translation'BSB'

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.