About Bible Verse Roll

Bible Verse Roll is run by a single independent builder as a set of free tools for reading the Bible at random: a main random-verse generator, a deterministic Verse of the Day, book-scoped rollers for Psalms and Proverbs, a roller for each of the 66 books, and curated, non-denominational topic lists. Every tool states exactly how its result is produced and, where the text is picked at random, uses genuine, cryptographically-secure randomness rather than a curated or algorithmically-ranked selection.

Translation and source

The text on this site is the World English Bible (WEB), published by eBible.org (eBible.org/web, translation id eng-web). eBible.org's own details page states plainly: “The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. That means that it is not copyrighted.” “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org, but the translated text itself carries no copyright restriction and may be freely quoted, copied, and republished. This site uses the 66-book Protestant canon edition (66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,098 verses), with no Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical books.

Verse text was parsed directly from eBible.org's downloadable USFX XML edition (eng-web_usfx.zip, “WEB Classic”, the 2020 stable text edition, source files dated 2026-09-12, downloaded and parsed 2026-09-17) using this site's own script, reduced to its compact per-book files. That download includes the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon; this site excludes all of it and keeps the 66-book Protestant canon only. No verse text is invented, paraphrased, or altered from that source -- footnotes and cross-references are stripped and the source's inline word-by-word tagging is unwrapped, but the words themselves are exactly eBible.org's; where this site adds its own writing -- book summaries, topic descriptions, FAQ answers -- that writing is clearly separate from the verse text itself and never presented as scripture. Five verse numbers in this edition (Luke 17:36, Acts 8:37, Acts 15:34, Acts 24:7, Romans 16:25) carry no body text -- their content in eBible.org's source is a footnote about a variant reading added by later manuscripts -- so those verse numbers don't appear in this site's data; this is why the pool totals 31,098 verses. eBible.org lightly revises the WEB text from time to time, so on rare occasions a word or punctuation mark here can lag eBible.org's current live page for that verse; email hello@bibleverseroll.com to flag one and it will be corrected.

How the random rollers work

Every random roll on this site -- the homepage, Verse of the Day's underlying pool, Random Psalm, Random Proverb, and each book's own roller -- draws through one shared set of randomness functions rather than each tool reinventing its own. Every integer draw uses the Web Crypto API (crypto.getRandomValues) with unbiased rejection sampling, and “no repeats in your last 10 rolls” is enforced with a true Fisher-Yates shuffle over the remaining candidate verses. Neither Math.random() nor a plain modulo shortcut appears anywhere in the draw path, because both are measurably biased for most ranges. Verse of the Day is the one deliberate exception: it uses a standard, non-random hash of the calendar date instead, precisely so every visitor sees the same verse on the same day -- see that page for the full explanation.

What it doesn't do

Nothing you do here is saved beyond your own browser tab: roll history lives only in memory for that page view, and there are no accounts, no server-side history, and no tracking of which verses you've viewed. See Terms.

Every core page

• Random Bible Verse Generator -- Roll a random Bible verse from the full World English Bible, filter by Old or New Testament or a specific book, see the surrounding context, and keep a running history of your last 10 rolls.
• Verse of the Day -- A single Bible verse, the same one for every visitor on a given date, picked by a deterministic formula from the date itself -- with yesterday's and tomorrow's verse one click away.
• Random Psalm -- Roll a random verse from the Book of Psalms -- all 150 chapters -- with the same crypto-secure, unbiased draw as the main generator, scoped to just this one book.
• Random Proverb -- Roll a random verse from the Book of Proverbs -- all 31 chapters of practical wisdom sayings -- with the same crypto-secure, unbiased draw as the main generator, scoped to just this one book.
• Bible Verses About -- Curated, non-denominational lists of Bible verses by topic -- strength, love, hope, fear, forgiveness, and more -- with the exact verse text pulled from the same World English Bible data as every roller on this site.
• Books of the Bible -- All 66 books of the Protestant Bible in canonical order, with each book's chapter and verse count computed directly from the World English Bible data, linking to a roller scoped to that book.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or unclear -- including a mis-tagged topic reference -- email hello@bibleverseroll.com.