Devout includes the whole Bible alongside the daily reading — in several translations, side by side when you'd like.
Opening the Bible
The Bible link in the sidebar opens the reader. You can navigate by book and chapter, or pick up wherever you last left off. The interface is intentionally quiet: large, well-spaced type set in a way that asks to be read slowly.
Available translations
Devout includes a range of translations chosen for their faithfulness and their place in the tradition:
- The Douay-Rheims Bible (Catholic, Challoner Revision) — the historic English Bible of the Catholic Church, including the full Catholic canon
- The King James Version (1611)
- The Geneva Bible (1599) — the Bible of the Reformers and the Puritans
- The American Standard Version (1901)
- The World English Bible — a public-domain modern English translation
The translation set continues to grow. Your tradition's preferred translation is selected for you by default, but you can switch translations at any time. Each translation also has a history page in the Library — how it came to be, who translated it, who reads it now.
Protestant and Catholic canons
Devout supports both the Protestant canon (66 books) and the Catholic canon (73 books). The seven additional books in the Catholic canon — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees — appear in their canonical interleaved positions when you read the Douay-Rheims. They are also available as full chapters in the Bible reader. The Catholic Esther (16 chapters) and Daniel (14 chapters, including Susanna and Bel and the Dragon) are likewise present in their full Catholic length in the Douay-Rheims.
If you read a Protestant translation (Geneva, KJV, ASV, WEB), the book picker shows only the 66 shared books. If you read the Douay-Rheims, it shows all 73.
Switching translations
Inside the Bible reader, a translation picker sits near the top of the chapter. Choose another translation and the chapter updates in place — your position, your book, your verse all stay the same. Your choice is remembered as your new default.
For closer reading, you can also open the same chapter in a second translation in a new tab to compare the wording side by side.
Reading plans
If you'd like a longer arc through Scripture than the daily reading offers, the Reading plans section has structured plans of varying lengths — a week, a month, a year. Reading plans run alongside the daily reading and don't replace it.
The library beside the Bible
The Library sits next to the Bible reader. There you'll find:
- Bible verses by theme — gathered passages on comfort, courage, hope, grief, and more.
- Articles — essays and guides on Scripture, its symbols, and its practice.
- The Catholic Lectionary — the Sunday Mass readings of the Roman Catholic Church on the three-year cycle, with the readings for every major feast.
- The Orthodox Daily Lectionary — the Apostolos and Gospel for every Sunday and Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox year.
- The Anglican Daily Office — Morning and Evening Prayer per the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
- The Christian Prayer Book — historic prayers across the traditions: the Jesus Prayer, Anima Christi, Cranmer's collects, and the prayers of Augustine, Aquinas, Bonhoeffer, and more.
- Catechisms — Heidelberg, Westminster Shorter, Luther's Small.
- The collected works of John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, and Andrew Murray in daily-meditation form.
- The Saints and the Synaxarion — the Roman and Orthodox calendars of saints and feasts, day by day.
- Resource pages for each translation — its history, its translators, and how it reads.