Study tools

Timeline places Scripture and history on a scrollable timeline. Switch views (events, books, etc.) from the page controls. It complements reading by showing overlap between books and eras.

The former Book order URL redirects here into the books-oriented view.

Scarlet thread is an interactive graph of thematic links between passages—useful for tracing themes across the canon. Pan and zoom; follow edges to related nodes. A text summary of the messianic thread appears below the chart for readers who prefer prose. Performance depends on device; very large graphs may feel heavy on older hardware.

Map shows places named in Scripture. Click markers for context and references. Coordinates are approximate guides for orientation—always confirm places in Read. Ancient boundaries differ from modern political maps.

Strong's lets you search Hebrew and Greek lexicon entries by number or gloss, and follow links from the reader where Strong's numbers are embedded in the translation. Use it to compare how words are used; lexicon articles are reference tools, not devotional commentary.

In Library → Creeds & confessions, historic confessions and catechisms are available to read alongside Scripture. Pick a document, browse articles or questions, and use proof-text popovers where provided to jump to Bible references in the reader.

Text is presented for study; it is not a substitute for your church's teaching or pastoral care.

Theology hosts longer systematic and devotional works (for example classic systematic theologies) split into chapters you can read in the same reference layout as other long-form pages. Use the table of contents to move within a work.

How to read by genre is a long-form guide: narrative, law, poetry, prophecy, gospels, epistles, apocalyptic, and how each genre shapes responsible reading. It links out to the reader and timeline where relevant.

In Library → Historical texts, you can open full English texts of 1 Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp to the Philippians from a single public-domain edition (Project Gutenberg) for historical reading alongside Scripture.

Freedom and bondage of the will is an interactive circular chart of the 1524–1525 debate between Erasmus and Luther. It is a visual study aid with prose summaries—not a substitute for reading those authors or Scripture itself.

Full public-domain English texts on their own pages: Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (1517) and On the Bondage of the Will (1525, Henry Cole via CCEL). Both use the same long-form Library reading layout as other primary and confessional texts.