COBOAM Online Bible Study

Enter passages you wish to view or compare (each of a chapter or less). For example...

This page shows how to use the Bible query and search.

matt 5:43-48; 6:5-8; 6:19-21; 7:24-28: book names can be shortened, and there is no need to repeat them for successive passages in the same book
matt 19:16-30 | mark 10:17-31 | luke 18:18-30: parallels are easy with pipes (SHIFT-Backslash)
philemon or 2 john 2-3: you don't need to enter chapter numbers for single-chapter books
matt 13:1-3, 24, 31: commas can be used to provide a list of verses from a single chapter, in the conventional manner. An ellipsis (…) will show any gaps in the resulting text
php 2 or jn 3:1-2, 4, 9: as well as allowing shortened book names, some common abbreviations are also recognized

grace peace: entering something that isn't a reference drops you into a search of the New Testament for a verse containing ALL terms entered
god lov: partial words will be matched — so lov matches love, loved, loving, pavlova, and so on
grace peace love: adding more search terms will narrow down the search results
SHINE: entering a search in capitals will search the Old Testament instead — a little quirky, but it keeps the interface nice and simple
luke-: to search for a word that's also the name of a book, put a dash on the end