About BibleHearth
BibleHearth is a free Bible site for people who are still getting oriented to Scripture. Here is how the studies are written, which sources appear beside them, and how to tell us when something needs to be corrected.
What is on this site
The site brings together Scripture and BibleHearth's own study material.
The Bible reader displays Scripture licensed from each translation's publisher and served through the YouVersion Platform. Every page that shows a translation also carries the publisher's required copyright notice. The plain-text versions of our studies link to verses on the site because their license does not allow us to republish the passages there.
The rest is written here: 30 chapter studies, 25 topic pages and 5 answers to common Bible questions. BibleHearth is responsible for that writing and for keeping it clear, accurate, and current.
Who it is for
It is for anyone who opens the Bible and reaches a chapter that needs context.
The studies assume no seminary training and no previous church experience. Terms such as covenant, atonement, and righteousness are explained when they first appear. Difficult passages stay difficult; the page gives you the background and the main ways readers have understood them.
How a chapter study is written
Each study begins with the chapter and follows the same basic process.
The chapter is read through in full before anything is written about it.
Its movement is mapped verse by verse. Each heading points back to the part of the chapter it explains, so readers can check the summary against the text.
Every word that needs explaining is explained where it first appears, in plain English.
Common misreadings are addressed directly. The caution section explains where a familiar interpretation asks more of the chapter than the words support.
Common questions receive direct answers in the same words readers use when they ask them.
Three named commentaries appear underneath: Tyndale's Open Study Notes, released under a Creative Commons license, and Matthew Henry (1706) and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (1871), both public domain. Reading them beside the study makes agreements and differences easy to see.
Where they cover the chapter you are on, the page also links out to The Gospel Coalition's commentary and BibleProject's overview of the book. We check every destination before adding it, so some chapters have fewer links.
Every study carries the month it was last reviewed. That date moves when the page does.
What this site will not publish
There are 1,189 chapters in the Bible. 30 of them are written up so far. The other 1,159 have a working page where you can read the chapter and the commentaries. Until an original study is ready, that page stays out of search indexes and the sitemap.
Larger sites already publish the same public-domain commentaries. An indexable BibleHearth page needs an original study that helps the reader understand the chapter. Until that study exists, the page stays out. The study index lists the chapters that have cleared that bar.
Where this site's help ends
BibleHearth is a study resource. It is not a church or a substitute for pastoral care.
These pages explain what a passage says, how it has been read, and where readers disagree. Personal decisions about a marriage, a diagnosis, or grief need help from people who know the situation. Pages that touch serious subjects say that clearly. The depression page, for example, directs readers to a doctor or crisis line when immediate help is needed.
Sources and licenses
Every work reproduced or linked here is listed on the attributions page: who holds it, under what license, and what we changed. Verse selections on the topic pages are our own, informed by Nave's Topical Bible (1897) and Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), both public domain.
Nobody pays for placement in a verse list, and no page on this site is sponsored.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us. hello@biblehearth.online is a working inbox, read by the person responsible for these pages, and the contact page says what else it is for.
A correction is made on the page itself and the review date moves with it. If an error changed the meaning of a page, the corrected page includes a note explaining what changed.
Who runs this
BibleHearth is independently run and has been publishing since August 2026. It is not affiliated with a church, a denomination or a Bible publisher, and nothing written here is endorsed by one. Bible text reaches these pages through the YouVersion Platform, which any developer can apply for. That license allows us to display Scripture; it is not an endorsement of the writing around it.
There is nothing to buy here, no account to make, no advertising and no newsletter. We measure which pages get read, using Google Analytics, Vercel Analytics, Ahrefs and Microsoft Clarity. Nothing on this site asks you for anything.