Google Instant But For The Bible!

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

I recently wrote a small webpage that is like Google "Instant" but for searching the Bible. You can search by a keyword (ex. "faith", "love", or "love Christ") and get results, or you can search by reference (ex. "Exo 2:2-4", "1 Tim 2-4", etc.)

Clicking on the link beside a verse will show you the whole chapter.

www.swiftbible.com

Please post on Facebook, Twitter, etc. to spread the word! Also, let me know of any improvements you would like to see!

Enjoy!
Taylor

Thanks for the tips, Greg! Do you still get the PHP error now?

Hi Taylor,

I know there is a lot of search programs out there, but I like this one for its simplicity and its very quick. So if you just want to search a word it works well.

It would work well as an app for i-phones. Any chance to make it available for android?

Heydave,

I have no experience developing mobile apps. But, if someone does I would certainly work with them to make it happen!

With care in Christ,
Taylor

Wow, this is fast! I like it.
I would change two minor things, almost more like preferences: I really dislike the pink for the verses and I would like to be able to click on the logo to go back to the home page. Not that these things really matter. Other than that, it took me some time to figure out where to type, since I could barely see that on my screen, it's so light.

I just made a major update to the site and added some really cool new features.

You can string words together to find verses containing all of those words (e.g. "light life" only returns verses with both words)... You can search references (e.g. John 3:16-18)... You can search exact phrases by using quotation marks around your search phrase...

And, my personal favorite feature, you can limit your search using the "+" sign... searching for "prov 1 + wisdom" will return all occurrences of "wisdom" in Proverbs 1. "John 1-2 + light" will show you all occurences of "light" in John 1-2.

Most searches return in about 150 milliseconds. There is no need to press "enter" to search, the results will update live!

Please spread the word and click the Facebook "like" button if you enjoy using it!

great work brother! something i would find very helpful and use a lot is references, so if possible in the future to add maybe a "+ box" under each verse in search result and if clicking that you would find "reference verses" to the verse you are interested in finding similar verses, i can imagine such a thing would be very much work :) but treasury of scriptural knowledge is a very useful tool using for reference.

just an idea brother, you did great so far!

Brilliant!

Very nice web app

That is a great site, if I could add something that I think would be handy but not necessary would be the ability to gather certain scriptures you into a list, like the scriptures you want to use you after searching a certain word placing an plus or a check box for the scriptures you want to focus on and then it adds to a list which you can refer to once you are done searching what you want. I hope that helps :) Awesome, Simple, and accessible.

Thanks for the ideas, all!

I really like both the reference and the list idea. I will look into doing both of them!

Share it if you like it!

With care in Christ...

Very nice Taylor

I posted it to my facebook page and put it in my favorites. Very fast response.

Thanks, goldminer!

Greetings All,

I have just made the NET Bible a translation choice on SwiftBible.com. Soon I will have it setup where it remembers your choice by default each time you visit the site, Lord willing.

With care in Christ...

The WEB (World English Bible) translation is now available on the site. The WEB is a public domain, majority text modern translation.

Also, the site also remembers the last translation you used.

Hello snufal,

Thank you for posting the 2nd link.

white stone

its very nice..thanks:)