Chapter And VerseAbout The Data
Nothing in the app is quoted from a model. Every verse you read comes from one of the texts below, all of them public domain, all of them bundled inside the app so it works offline.
Translations
| Berean Standard Bible | Default. Dedicated to the public domain on 30 April 2023 by its publishers. berean.bible |
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| World English Bible | Public domain, released by Rainbow Missions. worldenglish.bible |
| King James Version | Public domain worldwide; the 1769 Oxford standard text. |
The Berean and World English texts follow the critical text and lack sixteen and four verses respectively that the King James has. Switch translations in Settings if a reference comes up empty.
Topical index
| Nave's Topical Bible | Orville J. Nave, 1896. Public domain. About 5,300 topics. |
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| Torrey's Topical Textbook | R. A. Torrey, 1897. Public domain. About 620 topics. |
Both were digitised with normalised references by the open-source project topical-bible-search (MIT licence). Together they give the app 5,941 topics and 116,681 references, which is how it knows that “divorce” is about Deuteronomy 24 even when the verse never uses the word.
How an answer is made
- Your opinion is matched against the topical index and a full-text search of the verses. That gives a short list of candidate passages.
- Those candidates go to the model you chose, with instructions to cite references only, rate each one's weight, and say plainly when scripture does not address the question.
- Every reference the model gives is checked against the database. Real ones are shown with their verse text; invented ones are removed and counted.
- The verdict bar is computed from the weights of the passages that resolved. The summary is the model's words about what the passages say. It is not a verdict on you.
Models
On-device answers come from Apple's Foundation Models framework, running entirely on the phone. Bring-your-own-key answers come from whichever provider you configure. The app itself has no server and no model of its own.
Source code and reproducibility
The database is built by a script from the sources above; the app's About The Data screen reads the licences and counts from that database rather than from typed text, so the two cannot drift apart.