Bible Verses by Topic
What does the Bible say about…?
Start with a word rather than a chapter. Type a topic below — faith, money, anger, a name you came across — and you get every place Scripture speaks to it, laid out the way two careful men spent years arranging it. Every reference opens in the Bible Reader, or you can read the verses right here without leaving the page.
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Where these topics come from
- Nave’s Topical Bible — Orville J. Nave, 1896
- An army chaplain’s fourteen years of study, indexing the King James Bible under every subject he could find in it — doctrines, people, places, animals, trades, feelings. 5,320 topics here, and the bulk of the references. Public domain; this edition comes from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
- Torrey’s New Topical Textbook — R. A. Torrey, 1897
- Fewer topics — 628 — but each one laid out as an argument rather than a list, which is why a topic both books cover shows Nave’s index of every mention and Torrey’s outline of the teaching. Public domain, from the CrossWire Bible Society.
Both men worked from the King James Bible, and every one of the 116,681 references here has been checked against it — a reference that does not resolve to a real verse is not shown. The wording of the topic headings is theirs, a century and a quarter old, and it sometimes shows. Verse text is yours to choose, from any of the Reader’s six translations.