A verse or passage

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/bible-api/v1/verse" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/bible-api/v1/verse", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/bible-api/v1/verse");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/bible-api/v1/verse",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "passage": {
            "text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.",
            "verses": [
                {
                    "book": "John",
                    "text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.",
                    "verse": 16,
                    "chapter": 3
                }
            ],
            "reference": "John 3:16",
            "translation": "World English Bible",
            "verse_count": 1,
            "translation_id": "web"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T15:47:05.324Z",
        "request_id": "18f6121a-1238-47e8-8558-7cbf53d559a5"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Verse retrieved",
    "success": true
}