BibleTimes

BibleTimes exists to make the Bible accessible to intellectually curious people: believers and skeptics, Christians and secularists, academics and first-time readers. The Bible is the single most influential and historically consequential corpus of texts, particularly in the West. And yet, most people have never read it. BibleTimes aims to focus on a simple objective: to make it easier to learn about the Bible, regardless of your beliefs or denomination. BibleTimes delivers one curated passage per day to build a meaningful practice without collapsing under its own weight. Every passage is presented with rigorous scholarly commentary by our in-house team that represents competing theological traditions without editorial pressure toward any denomination, institution, or ideological position. BibleTimes is proudly independent, unaffiliated with any church, denomination, or parachurch organization. BibleTime's core product is the verse-of-the-day email, whereby one passage from the King James Bible delivered each morning by email, selected for its theological significance and cultural weight, accompanied by scholarly interpretation covering its historical setting, the identity and context of its author and original audience, how major Christian traditions have read it across centuries, points of ongoing interpretive debate, and its contemporary relevance. Beyond the daily verse, the platform includes a full KJV Bible reader (a mobile Bible reader supporting dark mode, verse bookmarks, cross-device sync), a topic discovery system spanning 50+ life categories (mental health, leadership, relationships, parenting, healing, addiction recovery, financial stewardship, sacrifice, justice, faith, and more), and a pericope study library covering 500 essential passages from across the biblical canon. In addition to offering the best free Bible reader on the market, BibleTimes offers a scripture studio to make it easier than ever to discover inspirational or thought-provoking content on modern social media platforms, including Instagram, BlueSky, X, and other major networks. These features allow for the creation of professionally designed templates with no design skills required. Free features include the full KJV reader, daily verse, morning email, basic sharing, and saved favorites. The Scholar Plan ($4/month at early-access pricing) unlocks premium scholarly commentary, full pericope and topic study access, reading history, customizable email delivery scheduling, advanced sharing studio templates, and high-resolution downloads. BibleTimes is built on semantic AI and topic modeling trained on the King James Version. Unlike traditional Bible search, which returns results based on keyword matching, BibleTimes finds passages by meaning: a query about anxiety surfaces passages thematically connected to trust, provision, and fear even when those exact words do not appear together. Topic modeling groups the full biblical canon into 50+ semantic clusters derived from thematic analysis rather than editorial categorization, so a user studying forgiveness encounters every passage the text connects to that concept across genres, testaments, and literary contexts. The daily verse curation system combines editorial judgment with a passage significance scoring model that weights historical theological influence, cross-canonical resonance, and thematic density. All AI and semantic features run on the KJV text exclusively, ensuring consistency with the scholarly commentary layer. The platform is a web application, fully mobile-optimized. with native iOS and Android apps in development.