Bible and verses
Read the Bible in Prayminder, attach verses to your prayers, change the Bible version, and manage the verse of the day.
Prayminder includes a Bible reader, and any verse you read can be saved to one of your prayers so it comes back to you alongside your notes. Bible content is provided through YouVersion.
Read the Bible
Open the Read tab and tap The Bible. The reader opens where you left off; the first time, it opens at John 1.
- Tap the chapter title at the top to pick a different book and chapter.
- Use the arrows to move to the previous or next chapter.
- Tap the version chip (for example NIV) to switch to a different Bible version.
Press and hold a verse
The quickest route to almost everything on this page is to press and hold a verse. Two places respond to it: the verse of the day at the top of the Reminders tab, and a verse you have saved onto a prayer.
The verse of the day
Long-press the day's verse and a menu opens with everything you can do with it.
- Save Scripture: attach it to one of your prayers.
- Read chapter: open the reader at the chapter it comes from.
- Change version…: show the daily verse in a different Bible version.
- Copy: put the verse, its reference and its copyright line on the clipboard, ready to paste into a message.
- Hide daily verse: take the verse off the Reminders tab.
On a day when the verse cannot be matched to a chapter, only Copy and Hide daily verse are offered.
A verse saved on a prayer
Long-press the verse card on the prayer's Notes tab. The same menu is behind the … button in the card's top corner, so use whichever is closer.
- Read chapter: open the reader at that chapter.
- Change version…: show this verse in a different Bible version.
- Copy: put the verse, its reference and its copyright line on the clipboard.
- Remove verse: take it off the prayer.
Attach a verse to a prayer
Three ways in, shortest first.
From the verse of the day. Long-press it and choose the save action (Save Scripture on iOS, Save to a prayer on Android), then pick the prayer. Nothing to find in the reader; this is the fastest way to keep the day's verse.
From the reader, for any other verse:
Select the verses
Tap a verse to select it; tap more verses to add them. Tap a verse again to deselect it.
Choose the prayer
A Select prayer list appears, grouped like your prayer list. Tap the prayer. The verses are attached and the reader clears your selection.
From a prayer, when you already know which prayer the verse belongs to:
Open Add Scripture
Open the prayer, tap the plus button and choose Add Scripture. The reader opens on top of the prayer.
Select and save
Tap the verses you want, then Save Scripture. Because you started from a prayer, there is no list to pick from; the verses go straight onto it.
Where do attached verses appear?
On the prayer's Notes tab, as a card with the reference and the text. Tap the card to read the whole passage, and tap Read chapter on iOS or Read Chapter on Android to jump into the reader at that chapter. Tap the small arrow on the card to collapse it to just the reference. Press and hold the card for everything else you can do with it.
Copy a verse
Long-press the verse of the day, or a verse saved on a prayer, and choose Copy. What lands on the clipboard is the verse text, then the reference with the version in brackets, then the translation's copyright line, ready to paste into a message or a note.
Remove a verse from a prayer
Long-press the verse card on the prayer's Notes tab and choose Remove verse, or tap the … button on the card and choose the same thing. Confirm with Remove.
This only removes it from the prayer; nothing happens to the Bible or to your notes.
Change the Bible version
Prayminder keeps a version for the reader and a version for the verse of the day, and each verse you save onto a prayer carries its own. They are all set separately, so changing one never changes the others.
The daily verse
Long-press the verse on the Reminders tab and choose Change version….
The longer route is the Settings tab → Bible Settings → Bible version (verse of the day), under Verse of the Day. It opens the same list.
The list ends with a Classic versions section holding NIV, KJV, CSB and ESV, offered for the daily verse only. It appears when the list's language is English.
The reader
Tap the version chip at the top of the reader (for example NIV). The Bible Version list shows the versions available in your language; tap one to switch. Tap Bible Language to see versions in other languages; that list has a search box and keeps your recent languages at the top.
The same setting is in the Settings tab → Bible Settings → Bible version, under Bible Reader, if you are already there.
A verse on one of your prayers
Long-press the verse card and choose Change version…. The card reloads in the version you pick and stays that way. This is the only way to change it, and it changes nothing else: the reader and the verse of the day keep their own versions, and so does every other verse on your prayers.
Both settings in one place
The Settings tab → Bible Settings holds the reader's version and the verse of the day's version in sections of their own.
Not every translation is in the list; see Why are some Bible versions missing?
The verse of the day
The Reminders tab shows a verse at the top each day. It is chosen for you and changes daily.
To hide it, long-press the verse and choose Hide daily verse. The longer route is the Settings tab → Bible Settings → switch off Show verse of the day, which is also where you turn it back on.
To read it in a different version, see The daily verse under Change the Bible version.
Why are verses not loading?
If a message says the chapter or the verse is not available in the version you have chosen, that passage is missing from that translation, or the publisher has not made it available. Pick another version from the chip at the top of the reader, or, for the daily verse, by long-pressing it and choosing Change version…, and it will load.
Otherwise it is usually the connection. Bible text is fetched over the internet the first time you read a chapter, so you need to be online. If you are online and a passage still will not load, give it a moment and try again; the service may be busy. See Troubleshooting if it keeps happening.
Do I need an account to read the Bible?
No. No account is required to read the Bible, and there is no sign-in anywhere in Prayminder. What you read is not tracked, and your prayers and the verses you attach to them remain on your device. See What information leaves my phone?
Why are some Bible versions missing?
Not all Bible translations are available to use. Each version is owned and managed by its publisher, and access depends on licensing and permissions. Because of this, some versions will not appear in the Bible Version list even though they exist elsewhere.
More are added as additional licenses become available through YouVersion, which partners with publishers and Bible societies to make Scripture available digitally while respecting the rights of each translation. The goal is to make the Bible accessible to as many people as possible, across languages and traditions. If the version you read is not there, tell us through the contact form.
Copyright and attribution
Most Bible translations are copyrighted works. When reading the Bible in Prayminder, you may see copyright information specific to each translation. This reflects the original publisher's ownership and is required when displaying their content. About Bible content in Bible Settings has more.