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Random KJV Bible Verse

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalm 23:1 (KJV)

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Drawn from 597 verses on rest, hope, grief and gratitude — the ones we quote in our own writing, not all 31,102.

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The King James Version, and why it is the free one

The King James Version was completed in 1611 by six committees working across Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge, and its cadences have shaped English prose ever since. It is also the translation you find behind almost every free Bible tool on the web — not by taste, but because it is in the public domain. Modern translations such as the NIV, ESV and NKJV are under copyright, and no site can serve unlimited verses from them without a licence.

So a KJV verse from this page carries no strings. Copy it into a sermon, a greetings card, a group chat or a print, and no permission is needed.

Reading the older English

Four centuries change a language. Let once meant hinder, prevent meant go before, and "be careful for nothing" in Philippians 4:6 means be anxious for nothing — the opposite of how it sounds today. If a verse reads strangely, the main verse generator shows the same passage in the World English Bible, a modern-English revision, which usually settles it in a second.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the King James Version free to use?
Yes. The KJV of 1611 is in the public domain worldwide, so the text carries no licence restrictions — you can copy any verse from this page and use it in a sermon, a card, a post or a print without asking anyone. (In the United Kingdom the Crown holds a perpetual patent, which is why some publishers there still note permission; everywhere else it is simply public domain.)
Why not NIV, ESV or NKJV?
They are under copyright. A site cannot serve unlimited verses from them without a licence, which is why the free verse generators you find are almost always KJV or another public-domain translation. We offer the KJV and the World English Bible for exactly that reason.
Is this a truly random KJV verse?
Within a curated pool, yes. Each click draws from 597 verses this site has quoted in its own articles and daily audio, weighted so the ones we return to most often come up more. It is not a truly random draw across all 31,102 verses — that returns genealogies and census lists, and no verse generator actually does it, though most do not say so.
What is the difference between the KJV and the World English Bible?
The World English Bible is a modern-English revision in the same textual tradition, so it reads much closer to how people speak now — "In nothing be anxious" rather than "Be careful for nothing". Both are public domain. Use the main verse generator if you want to see a verse in both at once.

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