In the
beginning was
the API.
Versemark is a Bible API for developers: six public-domain translations, concept search, 341k cross-references, and a JSON shape you'll actually enjoy parsing. No ceremony, no churchy chrome.
Six
public-domain
translations.
From the King James (1611) to the New Heart English (2010). Every verse cleaned, normalized, and queryable in milliseconds.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:1–3 · KJV
Three things you'll do all the time.
A single verse, with book name, reference, and text: already formatted for display.
Every verse in a chapter, in order, with a verse_count. Great for reading-plan apps and devotionals.
FTS5-backed full-text search with porter stemming and relevance ranking. "loved" finds "love".
Edited like a manuscript, served like an API. Every {…} footnote stripped, every "AndGod" pulled apart, every byte cached at the edge.
3,681 missing-space concatenations fixed in Darby alone. Editorial annotations stripped from WEB. Whitespace normalized everywhere.
SQLite FTS5 with porter stemming on 186k verses. Mean search: 23ms. The text never changes: caches stay warm.
Public-domain only. The licensed translations get added when (and if) the math works out. We won't fake it.
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