Read the Bible in English while you hear every word
For anyone learning the language. The chapter is read aloud, each word lights up as it is spoken, and you set the speed.
Free, and there is no account to make. The settings this page describes are already switched on when you arrive.
Hear the word and see it at the same moment
The chapter is read aloud and the word being spoken lights up as you hear it. That pairing is how pronunciation attaches to spelling. You are not guessing how a word sounds, and you are not reading silently and hoping. Every chapter is recorded, all 1,189 of them.
Go as slowly as you need
Playback runs from half speed to three times speed. Set any verse to loop and it repeats until you move on. Nothing is timed and nothing is graded.
Tap any word you do not know
A tap gives you a plain definition without leaving the chapter. The King James uses English from 1611, so some familiar words meant something else then. Nehr shows the older sense, which a modern dictionary would get wrong, along with the Hebrew or Greek word underneath.
Put a second version beside the first
The King James can sit side by side with the World English Bible, the American Standard or Young’s Literal, lined up verse by verse. When an old phrase will not come apart, a plainer version of the same verse is right next to it.
Bigger text, more space, and it works offline
Reading ease adds space between letters, between words and between lines, and switches to a typeface built for readability. Any book can be saved to your phone and read with no connection, which matters on a shared or metered plan.
Mark is the shortest of the four Gospels and the plainest, which makes it the easiest place to start. Nothing needs to be installed and nothing needs to be paid for.