Selah
Ask anything. Rooted in Scripture. A calm companion for reading the Bible and for bringing the questions you actually have to it — where the verse is always quoted, never written for you.
Reading the Bible is free, always — every translation, every book. Free readers also get 3 grounded answers a day.
Three parts
Today
A verse for the day, and a way straight back into whatever you were last reading. No streak to break, no badge to lose.
Read
The full sixty-six-book canon, bundled in the app. It opens with no connection, in a quiet reading view with adjustable text size.
Ask
Ask in your own words. Selah searches Scripture first, then offers a reflection that points back to the text — with the passages quoted and the sources shown.
What it refuses to do
An app that puts a language model next to Scripture earns trust by what it declines to assert. These are enforced in the app, not in the copy on this page.
- I
It never writes Scripture.
Every verse is retrieved verbatim from a trusted text. The AI does not paraphrase it and does not invent it. When a reference cannot be resolved against the text, Selah drops it rather than guessing.
- II
It keeps commentary visibly apart from Scripture.
Reflection is set in its own typeface under its own label, so you can tell at a glance which words are the text and which are a machine reading it.
- III
It does not quietly pick a side.
Where traditions read a passage differently, Selah shows the range. Neutrality that hides a preference is worse than an argued one.
- IV
It does not claim authority it has none of.
Selah is a study aid, not a pastor, a priest, or a counselor — and not medical, psychological, or legal advice. For pastoral care, speak to a person in your own community.
The whole canon, offline
Five public-domain translations are bundled in the app, so reading works with no connection at all.
- World English BibleEnglish
- 口語訳Japanese
- KoreanKorean
- Reina-ValeraSpanish
- AlmeidaPortuguese
Deuterocanonical books are named in the interface, but their text is not yet included. Selah will not quote a text it does not have.
Free, with an optional way to support it.
Selah Plus is for going deeper: ask as much as you want, every day — US$6.99 per month or US$39.99 per year. It also keeps Selah independent: there are no ads and your data is not sold. Reading the Bible stays free either way.