Kerygma · Tools
Free tools for slow Bible study.
Small utilities for the reading itself — when Easter falls this year, how to read the Bible in a year, what the Lord's Prayer says in five translations side-by-side. Each one is free, ad-free, and works in your browser. No login. No data leaves your device.
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Free Bible trivia round
A 5-question round in your browser, no login. Pick a category and difficulty, get AI-generated questions on real Scripture. Every answer reveals the verse text and a short commentary. Free taste of what the iOS app does.
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Liturgical calendar calculator
Enter any year to find Easter, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week, Ascension, and Pentecost — plus the liturgical colour of each season. Uses the Computus algorithm the church has used since AD 325.
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Bible reading plan generator
Pick a start date and one of four plans — read the Bible in a year, in 90 days, just the New Testament in 90 days, or just the Gospels in 30 days. Daily schedule with checkboxes that remember where you left off.
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Bible verse lookup
Type any reference — John 3:16, Matthew 5:3, Psalm 23 — and read it in the ESV translation. Every lookup is a shareable URL. Links to other translations on Bible.com.
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Books of the Bible memorizer
All 66 books in canonical order, grouped by section (Pentateuch, Major Prophets, etc.). Flashcard quiz with two modes — "what comes after X" and "what's book number N". Score persists across sessions.
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All 66 books of the Bible — overviews
Brief overview of every book — author, date, audience, theme, structure, key verses, and why it matters. Tap any book for the full page. Grouped by section: Pentateuch, Historical, Wisdom, Major and Minor Prophets, the Gospels, Acts, Paul's Letters, General Epistles, and Revelation.
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Bible character profiles
29 of the most consequential figures in Scripture — Abraham, Moses, David, Esther, Jesus, Mary, Peter, Paul, and more. Each profile: who they were, when they lived, their key verses, and why their story still matters. Grouped by testament.
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Bible chapter summarizer
Type any chapter — John 3, Romans 8, Psalm 23 — get a concise, theologically grounded summary plus key verses, themes, and how the chapter connects to the wider canon. Powered by Claude.
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Random Bible verse generator
A verse and a short commentary, picked from a curated pool of 370+ passages. Re-roll for a different one. The same pool that drives Kerygma's daily verse push.
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Bible cross-references
Parallel passages for any verse in the Bible — 340,000 cross-references across 29,000+ verses, drawn from the openbible.info dataset (CC-BY 4.0). Sorted by community confidence. The same tradition behind every modern study Bible's cross-reference margin.
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The Lord's Prayer
The full text in five versions side by side — ESV, KJV, Book of Common Prayer (1662), modern ecumenical (ELLC), and the original Greek transliterated. Clause-by-clause commentary plus a short history of where each version comes from.
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The Apostles' Creed
The oldest Trinitarian confession of the Western church — text in four versions (BCP 1662, ICET, contemporary Catholic, original Latin), commentary on every clause, and a short history of how it grew out of the early baptismal liturgies.
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The Ten Commandments
Exodus 20:1–17 in the ESV with brief commentary on each commandment, plus a comparison table showing how the Reformed, Catholic/Lutheran, and Jewish traditions number them differently.
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The Nicene Creed
The most ecumenical of the historic creeds — Sunday liturgy across Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and many Protestant traditions. Three English translations, the original Greek, clause-by-clause commentary, and a short history of the Councils of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381).
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The Beatitudes
Matthew 5:3–12 — the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, eight blessings that invert almost every honour-shame assumption of the ancient world. Each blessing in the ESV with brief commentary on what Jesus is doing with it.
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The Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22–23 explained — love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. The Greek behind each word, and Paul's deliberate use of fruit (singular) rather than fruits (plural).
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The Armor of God
Ephesians 6:10–18 — the six pieces of Roman military gear Paul repurposes as a metaphor for spiritual readiness. The OT passages from Isaiah 11 and 59 that Paul is drawing on, and brief commentary on what each piece protects.
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Liturgical color today
Pick any date — see the liturgical colour and season of the Western Christian calendar for that day. Violet for Advent and Lent, white for Christmas and Easter, red for Pentecost and the martyrs, green for Ordinary Time. Includes the two rose-Sunday exceptions.
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Saint of the day
A short, sober profile of the saint commemorated on any date — about 100 saints across the year, drawn from the shared calendar of Western Christianity. Today's saint by default; pick a date to look ahead or back.
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Heresies of the early church
Ten doctrinal errors the church fought through its first thousand years — Gnosticism, Arianism, Modalism, Nestorianism, and the rest. What each claimed, how the church answered, and the creeds those answers produced.
The point of the tools is to send you back to Scripture.
Kerygma is the app these tools all point toward — AI-generated Bible trivia paired with the verse behind every answer. Free for seven days; no credit card required.
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