For Developers

Build on Open Infrastructure

We believe biblical data should be portable. Our goal is to provide the foundational data structures that allow you to build better study tools without being tied to a specific vendor or API.

The Data

300,000+ biblical cross-references derived from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK), restructured so that each translation has its own anchor phrases mapped to its own text and versification. The goal is phrase-level precision without requiring the reader to mentally translate from the KJV.

The dataset is available on GitHub as tab-separated files. A standalone Python parser (no dependencies) is included for convenience.

github.com/CrossReferences-org/bible-cross-references

No API — By Design

We do not host a central API for third-party applications. The data is yours to download and embed directly. Your app continues to work even if our website goes down, and you can index and query the data however your application needs.

License

Cross-reference data: CC BY-SA 4.0 — use freely, credit the project, share improvements.
Bible texts: Respect original licenses. The S21 anchor phrases are used with permission from Société Biblique de Genève; the dataset contains only short fragments, not the full Bible text.