What's This Verse About?

Read the verse and choose the theme it teaches. Learn Scripture by topic.

What's This Verse About? — Free Online Bible Game

Read a verse and choose the theme it teaches — love, faith, hope, and more. Learn Scripture by topic.

Free to play, no sign-up required — and free to embed on your own website.

What's This Verse About? shows you a passage and asks what it mainly teaches. It is less about recall than about reading — the answer is in the verse in front of you, provided you read it carefully rather than reaching for the association the wording triggers.

How to play What's This Verse About?

  1. A King James Version verse appears on screen.
  2. Four themes are offered, drawn from twenty the site uses across its topic pages: love, faith, hope, peace, strength, wisdom, forgiveness, prayer, joy, trust, fear, healing, grace, salvation, patience, courage, marriage, money, death and anxiety.
  3. Choose the theme the verse is mainly about.
  4. Ten verses make a round, drawn from the 212 verses in the collection whose main theme is one of the twenty.

What this game teaches

Reading for the main point. Verses often touch several themes at once, and picking the dominant one is the same discipline as working out what a passage is actually saying before applying it — the habit that keeps a verse from being pressed into a meaning it does not carry.

Who What's This Verse About? is for

Teens and adults, and study groups in particular: the questions people disagree on are usually the ones worth talking about afterwards.

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What's This Verse About? — frequently asked questions

What if a verse is about more than one theme?
Many are, and the game asks for the main one — the theme the verse is filed under on this site's topic pages. When an answer feels arguable, that is usually a verse worth reading in its surrounding chapter.
Which themes can come up?
Twenty can be offered as options: love, faith, hope, peace, strength, wisdom, forgiveness, prayer, joy, trust, fear, healing, grace, salvation, patience, courage, marriage, money, death and anxiety. Seventeen of them are ever the correct answer — trust, grace and courage currently appear only as alternatives, because no verse in the collection is filed under them as its main theme.
Where can I read more verses on a theme?
Every theme in the game has its own page on this site with the full set of verses, so if a round leaves you wanting more on hope or forgiveness you can go straight to that collection and read it in one place.

More Bible Games

Bible Trivia QuizBible Quiz for KidsGuess the VerseComplete the VerseName That BookOld or New Testament?

All ten games live on the free Bible games page. If you would rather be tested on Scripture knowledge directly, try the Bible quiz, or the Bible quiz for kids for younger players. Every verse used across these games is King James Version, and you can draw one at any time from the random Bible verse generator.