About Ave
Ave makes Ave - Daily Bible Verse, an app for iPhone and Android that sends one verse each morning and explains it in plain words. We also publish this website: free guides and tools for reading the Bible with its context attached.
Both exist for the same reason. Most people who read a verse a day are handed a single sentence, lifted out of a letter, a poem or a legal code, with nothing to say who wrote it, to whom, or what was happening at the time. A verse read that way often says something different from the passage it came from. Our work is closing the gap between receiving a verse and understanding it.
What we make
The app. Ave sends a daily verse matched to what you are going through, at the time you choose. Tap it and the verse is explained at one of three depths, quick, thoughtful or deep, so you can go as far as you want. You can ask for a verse at any time, keep a private journal of what a verse means to you, and share verse cards with someone who needs them.
Free tools. The random Bible verse generator draws from 150 passages across the whole Bible, each with a short note on who wrote it and what it is actually saying. A Spanish edition quotes the Reina-Valera 1909.
The guides. Long-form articles on what well-known verses mean in context, where familiar sayings really come from, and how to read and find a passage yourself. A good place to start is how to read a verse with its context, or how to find any verse you half remember.
How we handle Scripture
These are the standards every page on this site is written to.
- We quote established translations, and name them. English verses come from the Berean Standard Bible. Spanish pages quote the Reina-Valera 1909 and the Nueva Biblia de las Américas, credited where they are used. Where the older English wording is the subject of an article, we quote the King James Version and say so.
- We check quotations against the source text. Every verse in our random verse tool was checked word for word against the Berean Standard Bible text published by its translators, and the ones that did not match were corrected.
- We never machine-translate Scripture. When we quote the Bible in another language, the verse comes from an established translation in that language, not from software translating English.
- Context comes before application. We say who wrote a passage, who it was written to and what was happening, and we read the verses around it before saying what it means.
- Where Christians disagree, we say so. Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant readings, and Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, are set out fairly rather than settled for you.
- We name our sources. When an article relies on a commentator, a lexicon or a scholar, we cite them by name so you can check the claim yourself.
- We do not overstate what a verse promises. Scripture is not offered here as a substitute for medical or mental health care, and where that matters, the article says so plainly.
Independence and disclosure
Ave owns the app this site writes about, and every article says so where it matters. We recommend other tools when they are the better fit: our guide to daily Bible verse texts sends most readers to free notifications from another app, and to paid text message services, before it mentions ours.
Corrections
If you find a misquoted verse, a wrong reference or a factual mistake, tell us through the support page. We correct the page and update its date, so you can see when it last changed.
Contact
For help with the app, account and data requests, or anything on this site, use the support page. You can read how we handle your information in our privacy policy.