Scripture At Scale
Access every verse of the LDS Standard Works in 88 languages. Bilingual parallel text, full-text search, and Swagger docs.
View Documentation →# Get Genesis 1:1 in English, Spanish & Korean
curl https://liahonalinguist.com/api/v1/verses/1/parallel?langs=en,es,ko
{
"data": {
"verseId": 1,
"bookTitle": "Genesis",
"chapter": 1,
"verse": 1,
"translations": [
{ "lang": "en", "text": "In the beginning God created..." },
{ "lang": "es", "text": "En el principio creó Dios..." },
{ "lang": "ko", "text": "태초에 하나님이 천지를 창조하시니라" }
]
}
}Endpoints
A complete RESTful API covering the entire canon of LDS scripture.
Volumes
Browse all 5 Standard Works — Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price.
GET /api/v1/volumes
Books
List all books within a volume, get book titles in any supported language.
GET /api/v1/volumes/:id/books
Chap & Vers
Retrieve chapters within a book and verses within a chapter, translated to any language.
GET /api/v1/chapters/:id/verses
Parallel
The killer feature — get any verse or chapter with side-by-side translations in multiple languages.
GET /api/v1/verses/:id/parallel
Search
Search across all scriptures using SQLite FTS5. Supports searching in any of the 88 languages.
GET /api/v1/search?q=faith
Languages
List all 88 supported languages with native names, verse counts, and full 5-volume coverage stats.
GET /api/v1/languages
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