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Follow a verse through the Bible

The Bible quotes and echoes itself across centuries. See how its 66 books connect on one line, then choose any verse to read the passages it connects with, in the Berean Standard Bible.

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66 books · 31,102 verses · 343,582 connections

The whole Bible on one line.

Each book is a stretch of the line, as long as its verses. Each arc joins two books, thicker where more of their verses connect. The colored arcs belong to the verse you have chosen: Isaiah 53:5, with 19 connected passages.

How the books of the Bible connect The most connected pair is Psalm and Isaiah, with 4,544 connections. Genesis: 1,533 verses Exodus: 1,213 verses Leviticus: 859 verses Numbers: 1,288 verses Deuteronomy: 959 verses Joshua: 658 verses Judges: 618 verses Ruth: 85 verses 1 Samuel: 810 verses 2 Samuel: 695 verses 1 Kings: 816 verses 2 Kings: 719 verses 1 Chronicles: 942 verses 2 Chronicles: 822 verses Ezra: 280 verses Nehemiah: 406 verses Esther: 167 verses Job: 1,070 verses Psalm: 2,461 verses Proverbs: 915 verses Ecclesiastes: 222 verses Song of Solomon: 117 verses Isaiah: 1,292 verses Jeremiah: 1,364 verses Lamentations: 154 verses Ezekiel: 1,273 verses Daniel: 357 verses Hosea: 197 verses Joel: 73 verses Amos: 146 verses Obadiah: 21 verses Jonah: 48 verses Micah: 105 verses Nahum: 47 verses Habakkuk: 56 verses Zephaniah: 53 verses Haggai: 38 verses Zechariah: 211 verses Malachi: 55 verses Matthew: 1,071 verses Mark: 678 verses Luke: 1,151 verses John: 879 verses Acts: 1,007 verses Romans: 433 verses 1 Corinthians: 437 verses 2 Corinthians: 257 verses Galatians: 149 verses Ephesians: 155 verses Philippians: 104 verses Colossians: 95 verses 1 Thessalonians: 89 verses 2 Thessalonians: 47 verses 1 Timothy: 113 verses 2 Timothy: 83 verses Titus: 46 verses Philemon: 25 verses Hebrews: 303 verses James: 108 verses 1 Peter: 105 verses 2 Peter: 61 verses 1 John: 105 verses 2 John: 13 verses 3 John: 14 verses Jude: 25 verses Revelation: 404 verses Genesis Exodus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Ruth 1 Samuel 1 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Job Psalm Proverbs Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Zechariah Matthew Mark Luke John Acts 1 Corinthians Hebrews Revelation Old Testament New Testament

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Isaiah · chapter 53

Isaiah 53:5

3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

4Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

5But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

← Isaiah 53:4 Isaiah 53:6 →

19 connected passages: 5 in the Old Testament and 14 in the New. The three most-voted are marked.

In the Old Testament

Genesis 1

  • Genesis 3:15

    And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Isaiah 2

  • Isaiah 53:6–8

    We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

  • Isaiah 53:10–12

    Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Daniel 1

  • Daniel 9:24

    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Zechariah 1

  • Zechariah 13:7

    Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

In the New Testament

Matthew 1

  • Matthew 20:28 most voted

    just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Romans 4

  • Romans 3:24–26

    and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

  • Romans 4:25

    He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

  • Romans 5:6–10

    For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. …

  • Romans 5:15–21

    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! …

1 Corinthians 1

  • 1 Corinthians 15:3

    For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

2 Corinthians 1

  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

    God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 1

  • Ephesians 5:2

    and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Hebrews 4

  • Hebrews 9:12–15

    He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God! …

  • Hebrews 9:28

    so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

  • Hebrews 10:10

    And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • Hebrews 10:14

    because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

1 Peter 2

  • 1 Peter 2:24–25 most voted

    He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.” For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

  • 1 Peter 3:18 most voted

    For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

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Which books connect most

Psalm and Isaiah: 4,544 connections.

2,036 of the 2,145 possible pairs of books are connected by at least one verse. These are the twelve most connected, with the link readers found most helpful between them.

  1. Psalm and Isaiah4,544Isaiah 41:10 → Psalm 27:1
  2. Isaiah and Jeremiah3,460Jeremiah 29:11 → Isaiah 55:8-12
  3. Matthew and Luke3,165Matthew 6:33 → Luke 12:31
  4. Jeremiah and Ezekiel2,779Jeremiah 15:16 → Ezekiel 3:1-3
  5. Job and Psalm2,509Psalm 33:10 → Job 5:12-13
  6. Psalm and Jeremiah2,238Jeremiah 29:11 → Psalm 33:11
  7. Matthew and Mark2,026Matthew 9:13 → Mark 2:17
  8. Matthew and John1,988Matthew 6:33 → John 6:27
  9. Psalm and Proverbs1,925Proverbs 3:5 → Psalm 37:5
  10. Isaiah and Ezekiel1,879Isaiah 44:3 → Ezekiel 39:29
  11. Luke and John1,698Luke 11:9 → John 16:23-24
  12. Mark and Luke1,588Luke 11:9 → Mark 11:24

186,803 Old Testament to Old

42,949 Old Testament to New

29,940 New Testament to Old

83,890 New Testament to New

What a connection is

Connected passages, not proof texts.

The connections come from OpenBible.info, which draws mostly on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, a public-domain index of parallel passages first published in the 1830s. A connection can be a quotation, an allusion, a parallel account or a shared theme; the data doesn't say which, so this guide calls them connected passages.

Readers on OpenBible vote for the connections they find helpful. The votes put the strongest first and mark the three most-voted for each verse. They measure usefulness to readers, not certainty, and connections readers voted down are left out.

The verses are in the Berean Standard Bible, a modern translation dedicated to the public domain in 2023. Where the Berean, like most modern translations, gives a verse number no words (16 verses, such as Matthew 17:21), this guide says so.

For study

Ideas for family and homeschool study.

Younger readers · 15 minutes

Follow the Lamb

Start at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham says God will provide the lamb. Follow its connection to John 1:29, then from there to Isaiah 53:7. Draw the three places on the line above.

Ages 11–14 · 30 minutes

A promise and its keeping

Choose a promise: Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:2 or Genesis 12:3. Read its New Testament connections in context. Write down what is promised, who receives it, and how the later passage uses it.

Ages 15–18 · one or two sessions

Weigh the connections

Pick a verse with many connections, such as Genesis 3:15. Sort its connected passages into quotations, allusions and shared themes. Which are direct, which are debated, and what would you need to check in a commentary?

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Sources and limits

Verse text: the Berean Standard Bible (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab), public domain. Connections: OpenBible.info Bible Cross References (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab) (file dated 2 November 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, drawing mostly on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. OpenBible's 3 John 1:15 is the Berean's 1:14. A link to a range is counted under the book the range starts in.

What each record contains

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FieldHow to read it
FromBookNbr The book's place in the Bible, 1 (Genesis) to 66 (Revelation), in the Berean's order.
FromBook Book name as the Berean Standard Bible writes it; Psalms is Psalm.
FromTestament Old Testament or New Testament.
ToBookNbr The book's place in the Bible, 1 (Genesis) to 66 (Revelation), in the Berean's order.
ToBook Book name as the Berean Standard Bible writes it; Psalms is Psalm.
ToTestament Old Testament or New Testament.
Connections Verse-level cross-references from the first book to the second. A link to a range counts once, under the book it starts in.
StrongestFrom The verse of the most-voted link between the two books.
StrongestTo Where that link lands: a verse or a range.
StrongestVotes Its OpenBible votes: how many readers found it helpful, not a measure of certainty.

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