Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.2 Timothy 2:15

Tools that honor the text

Easy enough for a first read. Deep enough for a scholar. Every feature below is live — switch the theme in the top bar and watch them follow.

Highlighting

Highlight the word, not just the verse

Most apps stop at coloring whole verses. Gospel Grasp highlights single words, nests overlapping highlights, and keeps ten purposeful categories — God, Promises, Commands, Warnings, and more — consistent across every theme.

  • Word-level precision with drag selection
  • Nested highlights — word colors over verse colors
  • 10 default categories + unlimited custom colors
  • Per-theme palettes with contrast checking
John 3 · Bible Reader

16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Tap a category — highlights apply to single words, not just whole verses.

Word Study

Heat maps for the whole canon

Search any English word, land on its Strong’s entry, and see 425,214 indexed occurrences come alive — density heat maps across all 66 books, frequency charts, timelines, and word families.

  • 16,481 Greek & Hebrew words, fully indexed
  • Density heat maps across books and testaments
  • Frequency analysis, timelines, and word families
  • Cached locally — works on the Free plan, even offline
Word Study · love
ἀγάπηagápēG26116 occurrences

love — especially benevolent, self-giving love

Density across the New Testament
Mat1
Luk1
Jhn7
Rom9
1Co14
2Co9
Gal3
Eph10
Php4
Col5
1Th5
1Jn18
Jud3
Rev2

1 John burns brightest — 18 uses in 5 short chapters.

Author Study

Every author has a fingerprint

Compare how Paul, John, and Moses use language. Signature-word analysis, biographical timelines, journey maps, and the scholarly debates about who wrote what — with the evidence laid out.

  • Signature vocabulary per biblical author
  • Interactive journey maps — all four of Paul’s journeys
  • Authorship confidence with scholarly sources
  • Side-by-side author comparison
Author Study · Paul
Paul of Tarsus
13 letters · 4 missionary journeys
Signature words — relative frequency
χάρις
grace
πίστις
faith
δικαιοσύνη
righteousness
εὐαγγέλιον
gospel
σάρξ
flesh

Vocabulary fingerprints reveal each author's theological heartbeat.

Lens

See the chapter the way its first hearers did

Lens surfaces the setting, the tension, the theme, and the Old Testament echoes underneath any passage — study-Bible concise, never devotional filler. Plus character graphs and an interactive map of 702 biblical places.

  • Passage context cards: setting, tension, theme
  • Tap a theme or key term — jump straight to its verses, highlighted in the chapter
  • Canonical echoes traced back to their source
  • Character relationship graphs as you read
  • Interactive map of 702 biblical locations — draw routes, annotate, measure distances
Lens · John 6:22–59
The Bread of Life
Setting

The synagogue at Capernaum, the day after Jesus fed five thousand on the far shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Tension

The crowd wants more bread; Jesus offers Himself. Their hunger is physical — His answer is eternal.

Theme

Jesus is the true manna: provision that satisfies forever.

Themes & key terms
mannasignfleshsent

Tap a theme to jump to its verses — vv. 35, 48 highlight right in the chapter.

Canonical echoes
  • Exodus 16:4Manna from heaven in the wilderness
  • Psalm 78:24“He rained down manna… grain from heaven”
  • Isaiah 55:2“Why spend money on what is not bread?”

Bible Map

Draw on the Holy Land

Inside Lens lives an interactive map of 702 biblical places. Draw routes, annotate journeys, and measure distances in modern units — the same conversion that turns “3 cubits” into feet or meters the moment you tap it in the text.

  • 702 biblical locations, theme-aware map tiles
  • Draw and annotate routes — trace Paul’s journeys yourself
  • Tap-to-measure distances in miles or kilometers
  • Ancient units convert in the text: cubits, talents, denarii → modern equivalents
Lens · Bible Map
CaesareaNazarethCapernaumJerusalemBethlehem75 mi

Line: drag on the map, or tap a start point then an end point — distances label automatically.

Lexicon

The original language, one tap away

Tap any word for its Greek or Hebrew entry — Strong’s number, transliteration, part of speech, and a plain-English gloss. Full interlinear display and morphology parsing for when you want to go all the way down.

  • Strong’s concordance built in
  • Interlinear Greek & Hebrew display
  • Morphology decoded into plain English
  • Gematria calculator for Hebrew study
Lexicon · 1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and . But the greatest of these is love.

ἀγάπηagápēG26
Noun, Feminine · 116 occurrences

Self-giving, benevolent love; the highest form of love.

Tap any word in the reader for its original-language entry.

Sermons

The sermon doesn’t end at noon

Record the message live. Gospel Grasp transcribes it, detects every Scripture reference with timestamps, and — here’s the part nobody else does — links them back into your Bible. Open a passage your pastor has preached on, and the sermon is one tap away.

  • Live recording with automatic transcription
  • Scripture references detected, timestamped, and auto-tagged to verses
  • Sermon icons appear beside verses as you read — pastoral perspective, in context
  • Moments with photos, linked to the timeline
  • Full-text search across every sermon you’ve kept
Sermons · Recording
The God Who Provides
Pastor David Chen · 42:18
Scripture detected automatically
Genesis 22:1408:32Philippians 4:1921:07Matthew 6:2629:45
Moment captured at 21:07
Whiteboard: Jehovah-Jireh word study

The recorder stays dark in every theme — by design, so your screen never distracts the pew beside you.

…and back in the reader

19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

The God Who Provides21:07
Walking by Faith14:52

Every sermon you keep adds pastoral perspective to the verses it preached on.

AI Insights · Pro

A study guide from every sermon

Pro turns each recording into a structured summary — teaching points, applications, key quotes, and cross-references. And in the reader, swipe any verse for AI historical and cultural context.

  • Structured sermon summaries with teaching points
  • Discussion questions and applications, ready for small group
  • Swipe a verse for historical & cultural insights
  • Your recordings, your data — delete audio anytime
Sermon SummaryPro

A study of God’s provision from Genesis 22 — Abraham’s test reveals a God who provides the sacrifice Himself.

Teaching points

Jehovah-Jireh: “The LORD will provide” names God by His character, not just His acts.

Provision often arrives in the place of obedience — on the mountain, not before it.

Genesis 22 foreshadows the cross: God provides the Lamb.

Where God leads, God provides. Walk up the mountain.

And that's the short list

Fuzzy reference search — type j316, get John 3:16 and Judges 3:16. Tap “3 cubits” in the text and see it in modern metric or imperial. Version comparison with word-level diffs, chiastic structure viewer, OT-in-NT quotations, topical search, study stacks, auto-scroll reading…