Vision & Mission

Why This Project Exists

The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible itself. Cross-references help us see how Scripture interprets Scripture.

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK) is a large and careful cross-reference collection: over 300,000 connections linking specific words and phrases across Scripture. But it was built on the King James Version. When you read a modern English Bible or a French translation, the references still point to KJV phrases. You lose precision: either you see a wall of verse numbers without context, or you mentally translate 17th-century English.

We anchored these connections to modern translations so the phrase-level precision that makes the TSK valuable is preserved in the language people actually read.

What We Are Building

A study tool that works on desktop, mobile, and slow connections. We build with the rural pastor in the developing world as our constraint. If it works well on a cheap phone with expensive data, it works for everyone.

Open data that any developer can use. The cross-reference dataset is published on GitHub under CC BY-SA 4.0. The data is translation-agnostic: when a connection is improved in one language, it improves for every language.

A long-term resource. The TSK is our starting point, not our endpoint. Over time we are removing weak references, validating translation-dependent connections, and filling gaps — with the goal of producing something as useful in 200 years as it is today.

What Success Looks Like

A pastor in West Africa can study cross-references in French on a cheap phone as easily as a seminary student in North America can in English. The data is free, portable, and integrated into Bible apps beyond our own.