Using the Bible Reader

Scripture has its own place in Psalmlog. You can read whole chapters, highlight what stands out, and carry a passage straight into a reflection — and reading is free on every plan, with no session counter and nothing to unlock.

Opening Read

There are three ways in:

From the sidebar: click Read to open the full-page reader. This is available on every plan, including Free.
During a session: while you're reflecting, click Read Scripture to open the reader beside your entry without losing your place.
From your guidance: when your guidance includes a Scripture reference, click it to open that passage.

Finding a Passage

Use the controls above the text to choose a book, a chapter, and a translation. The arrows on the left move to the previous or next chapter, so you can keep reading without going back to the picker.

The passage reads as continuous prose with small verse numbers, rather than as a list of separate verses — closer to reading a Bible than scanning a table.

Reading in Other Languages

Psalmlog offers 46 translations across seven languages:

English — 17 translations, opening on the New International Version
Spanish — opening on the Nueva Versión Internacional
Portuguese — opening on the Nova Versão Internacional
French — opening on La Bible du Semeur 2015
German — opening on Hoffnung für alle
Hindi — opening on the Indian Revised Version
Italian — Diodati Bibbia 1885

The translation picker groups versions by language and puts yours at the top, so you don't have to scroll past six other languages to find it. You can choose any version from any language at any time — nothing is locked to the language you started in.

Matching Your Language

The first time you open the reader, Psalmlog matches your browser's language and opens on that language's default translation. Whatever you pick after that is remembered.

Tip: If you read in more than one language, try the same passage in both. Reading a verse you know well in another language is one of the fastest ways to notice something you had stopped seeing.

What You Can Do With a Verse

Click any verse and a small bar appears just beneath it:

Reflect on this — opens a new session with that passage already attached.
Highlight colors — shown when your YouVersion account is connected. Pick a color and the highlight saves to your Bible App too.

Press Escape or click elsewhere to close the bar.

Reflecting on a Passage

Reflect on this is the bridge between reading and journaling. Choosing it opens a new session with three things already in place:

The passage appears at the top so you can see what you're responding to.
The reference is added to your Scripture References, so it's saved with the entry.
A question drawn from that passage replaces the blank page — if you'd rather write about something else, Change focus brings back the full prompt picker.

The passage is there for context only. What gets saved with your entry is the reference, exactly as it would be if you'd added the tag yourself.

Tip: You can dismiss the passage card and keep writing. A session that starts with a verse is still your session — it doesn't have to stay about that verse.

Verse of the Day

If you're on Seeker or above, your dashboard shows a verse for each day. From there you can read the full chapter or reflect on the verse, whichever you're in the mood for.

Your Own Highlights

Connect your YouVersion account and the highlights you've made in the Bible App appear while you read here, in the colors you chose. New highlights you make in Psalmlog sync back the same way.

See Connecting YouVersion for how to set this up.

Tagging Scripture in a Session

While you're writing, open Read Scripture, find a passage, and click Add as Tag to attach it to your entry. You can tag up to 3 passages per entry.

Tagged passages appear alongside your entry and your guidance, building a record of what Scripture meant to you at that moment. On a past entry, clicking a Scripture tag opens the verse text without leaving the page.

Tips

Try a different translation. With 17 English versions alone, reading a familiar verse in unfamiliar wording is one of the quickest ways to notice something new in it.
Highlight before you know why. If a verse stands out and you can't say what for, mark it anyway. The pattern usually shows up later.
Use Read as a starting point. On a day when you don't know what to write about, open a chapter and see what surfaces.
Reading is always free. Sessions are what your plan covers — Scripture isn't metered, so read as much as you like.

Next Steps

Connecting YouVersion — bring your highlights with you and keep them in sync.
Writing a Journal Entry — turn a passage into a full reflection.
Understanding Your Guidance — how Scripture shows up in the guidance you receive.