☩ A Field Guide To Your Desk ☩

Everything you can do here

Parallel Scripture is a quiet desk for the Word — lay passages side by side, trace cross-references, study the original words, and let a careful AI help you see the text in context. Here is the whole desk, tool by tool.

☉ Take the interactive tour Back to your desk

Up to four passages, side by side

Compare the same verse across translations — KJV, ASV, BSB, WEB and more — or set different verses next to each other. Use the 1–4 selector in the topbar to choose how many panes are open.

Ⅰ John III KJV

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…

Ⅰ John III BSB

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…

Type a reference the way you say it

The parser understands the natural forms — no rigid syntax to learn.

Jn 3:16 Rom 5 1 Cor 13 Ps 23 romans 5:1-11

John 3:16 go ↵

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Cross-references, one click away

Click any verse number to open the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge drawer, sorted by weight. Load any reference straight into a pane.

§ Cross References · John 3:16

Romans 5:8●●●

1 John 4:9●●

John 3:36●

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Ask the AI Rabbi

Highlight a phrase and choose ✢ Rabbi. It reads the whole chapter and the verse's cross-references before answering, and stays under strict rules of sound interpretation: context first, Scripture interprets Scripture, never beyond what is written. It cites references — the verse wording always comes from our own translations, never the model.

“God so loved the world”

Summary

God's love is the ground and motive of the gospel — the gift of the Son flows from it.

A caution

“World” here speaks of its scope and wickedness, not of universal salvation.

Romans 5:81 John 4:9

Find a verse from a thought

Describe a half-remembered idea and the assistant returns matching passages, every one validated against our text. The ✶ Find button opens it.

“where Paul says we're saved by grace, not works”

Ephesians 2:8-9Romans 3:28Titus 3:5

Study the original words

In the King James text, tap any word for its Strong's number, transliteration, definition and every occurrence. Turn on Lemma (Strong's) in the View menu to see the transliteration beneath each tagged word, and Word diff to highlight where two translations differ.

loved αγαπάω · G25

agapaō — to love, to welcome, to be fond of; of God's redeeming love.

And at hand whenever you need them

📜 Commentary Matthew Henry's exposition, opened beside the text from the 📜 in each pane.

✎ Highlights & notes Four colours, with a study note attached to each highlight; ✎ marks the ones with notes.

⚲ Full-Bible search Find any phrase across the whole text and jump straight to it.

► Read aloud Have a passage read by the browser — no network, no cost.

◐ Memorize mode Blank the words, then tap to reveal — for scripture-memory drills.

🔐 Preach mode Project verse-by-verse, fused 1–3 per slide, with large auto-fit text. The reference (e.g. “John 3:16 · KJV”) shows across the top so the congregation always knows the passage. ⧉ Project opens a second-screen output window; ⌗ Stage adds a confidence monitor (NEXT verse big, plus a clock); ✦ Screen sets the projector's theme and text size.

✶ Emphasise a word Land on the minister's key word — “peace”, “grace” — and make it glow on the projector and on every following phone. Tap ✷ Emphasise, then tap the words on the verse; tap again to release.

⚓ Teaching anchor Pin your main passage with the ⚓ under Text, then snap straight back to exactly where you paused — the H key or ⌂ — no matter how many cross-references you detoured through.

♫ Preach queue Line up the whole service — scriptures, songs, thoughts, and pictures (announcement slides, up to 5 MB) — then step through it in order. Queue several scriptures at once by separating them with commas (John 3:16, Rom 8:28, Ps 23). Blank lines split lyrics into stanza slides. Pick a hymn from the built-in public-domain hymnal or reuse a song you've queued before, so you never retype lyrics.

▢ Blank screen Snap the projector to a calm holding screen before the service and between segments — the Blank button, or the . key. Cue the next verse underneath, then tap again to bring it back.

➤ Quick chase + AI search In the Go box, type what the preacher called (rom 8:28) — or describe it (“the walls of Jericho”) and the AI offers the matching passages to put up. ⟲ Back (or B) returns to where you were — exact verse, exact stanza.

☎ Phone remote Pair a phone by secret QR and drive the projection from anywhere in the room — next, previous, chase.

☉ Go Live The congregation scans a QR and the Scripture follows the pulpit on their phones — live, no account needed. When you end, they get “tonight's scriptures” to keep reading.

❖ Reading plans Pace a book, the NT, the year, or your own path — and tick each day done.

☰ Reading view Text size, candle/day theme, sync-scroll — all in the View menu.