A place for reading and study
The five tabs bring daily reading, the Bible, your study library, Scripture memory, and your saved passages together.
Begin your reading
Open the daily passage, continue where you left off, and return to your reading plan.
Read and investigate
Choose a book and chapter. Tap a verse for saving, notes, connections, and word study. Open a linked passage and return to your place.
Build a study
Open My Study Desk, Explore Scripture, the 66 book guides, or the study lessons and resources. Saving and account and Settings & about are also here.
Learn a passage
Save a verse or passage for practice and return for scheduled review. Your saved wording and review progress stay with your workspace.
Return to a passage
Find bookmarks, highlights, personal notes, saved books, and reading history. Open an item to return to its context.
Adjust your reader
Use Reading appearance in the reader, or open Settings, to change text size, line spacing, verse numbers, and the light or dark appearance.
Explore Scripture from a verse
In Bible, choose a verse and open its study tools. Connections shows related passages and identifies references listed from the verse or pointing back to it. Words lets you inspect the source word links, definitions, and other tagged occurrences while keeping the passage in view. A source phrase may cover several English words; words without a verified tag are identified rather than assigned a guessed meaning.
In Study → Explore Scripture, choose a connection trail, Word Explorer, parallel accounts, a geographic journey, the Philippians argument analysis, or a Difficult Passages article. Trails explain why passages connect. Parallel reading keeps each account’s wording. Maps distinguish known, proposed, and uncertain locations. The argument analysis offers layers you can turn on or off; that analysis is currently prepared for Philippians.
Scripture references open the Bible text. Search accepts references such as John 3:16 and 2 Timothy 2:15, as well as words and phrases. On the website, open Study Tools from the main menu or choose a verse number and then Study.
Keep a whole study together
Open Study → My Study Desk and choose New study. Give it a name such as “Romans 8” or “Sunday’s Lesson.” Add observations, questions, passages, section headings, and worksheets. You can reorder the material and return to a saved source from its entry.
Choose Add to Study Desk while exploring a passage, word, connection, journey, or article. Select an existing study or create one. Personal notes stay separate from the saved source copy. In an entry with a passage, a phone offers Notes and Scripture sections; a wide iPad can show them beside each other.
Worksheets save your answers as you write. Check the saving status before leaving if an error is shown. Export a study to keep a portable copy; the saving controls also offer a backup of the workspace. On the website, use My Study Desk and Save to a study.
Choose how your work is saved
You can use a guest workspace without signing in. It belongs to that browser or app installation. To continue across devices, open Study → Saving and account in the app or Saved → Account and sync on the website. Sign in, enable sync, and explicitly choose whether to bring existing guest work into the account.
When email sign-in is available on the website, choose Sign in and enter your email address and password. To make a new account, choose Create an account: Eternal Word emails you a link, and you choose your password after opening it. If you already use Eternal Word through ChatGPT, use Existing account? Sign in with ChatGPT, then Add email sign-in to this account to sign in to that same account with email from then on. Your study stays with the account; nothing is merged by email address.
Check the status for saved, waiting to sync, offline, or a problem needing attention. If two devices change the same item, review the conflict before deciding which version to keep. Do not discard a version containing work you need.
Signing out returns to guest work; it does not delete your cloud account. The same controls let you export data, disconnect a device, and delete Eternal Word cloud data. Deleting cloud data is separate from deleting your sign-in-provider account or your email mailbox. If your account has email sign-in, deleting its cloud data also removes that email sign-in and password. If you signed in with Apple, deletion also revokes the app’s Apple authorization; if Apple cannot be reached, the deletion shows as pending, and you can check or retry it later from the same controls. To use the website with the account you use in the app, choose Sign in with the app in the website’s account panel and approve that browser in the signed-in app. The privacy policy explains local copies, deletion records, and retained synchronization receipts.
What works offline?
The app includes the Bible, handbook, course, study links, chronology atlas, word and connection data, and the new study library. Reading, searching that library, creating studies, filling worksheets, and practicing memory passages work without an internet connection.
The website’s offline download shows its size and progress. Wait for it to finish before relying on that browser’s offline copy. New online assistant answers, sign-in, syncing, external websites, and email support require a connection. Offline changes wait to sync when a connection is available. App content updates arrive through updates to the app.
Keep a separate backup of important work. Export your workspace from the saving controls, or export an individual study. Choose a location you can find again. Apple’s device backup is separate and depends on your settings.
Using the study assistant
Open Study → Ask a Bible question, or use the question button while reading a chapter. You will be asked for permission before your first question is sent. Include a specific passage when it helps: for example, “Explain the argument in Romans 4:1–8.”
The assistant uses the selected passage and recent conversation to understand follow-up questions. Naming a different passage in your question directs the discussion to that passage. Read the cited Scriptures alongside the explanation; an AI-generated answer can contain an error.
If the online service cannot provide a new explanation, the app can show clearly identified readings from the included handbook. Your question remains available to try again. These saved readings are distinguished from a newly generated answer.
Use the conversation options menu to clear the conversation. To disable online answers, open Study → Settings & about and turn off Allow online study answers. See the privacy policy for exactly what is sent.
Common questions
How do I change the book or chapter?
In Bible, tap the book and chapter title at the top, or the chapter-list button at the bottom. Choose a book, then tap a chapter number. The Previous and Next buttons also move between adjoining books.
Where are my bookmarks, highlights, and notes?
Open Saved and use the menu at the top to choose the type of material. Tap a verse in Bible to create a saved item. Saved books are added with the bookmark button on a handbook page.
Can I use the app without enabling AI answers?
Yes. Choose Continue without the assistant when the permission screen appears. All included Bible and study material remains available. You can enable or disable online answers later in Settings.
Why is the assistant showing a handbook reading?
A connection or service problem may prevent a new online response. The app then offers related material already on your device, with a label identifying it as saved handbook content. Check your connection and try the question again when you are ready.
I forgot my password. What do I do?
On the website, open Saved → Account and sync, choose Forgot password?, and enter the email address you sign in with. If an account uses it, Eternal Word emails a link that works once for 30 minutes. Choose a new password on the page it opens, then sign in again. Your study is not changed. Browsers and apps that used the old password are signed out.
The email with my link has not arrived.
Wait a few minutes and check your spam or junk folder. Then press Send again; the same message is retried rather than duplicated. Links expire, so request a new one if yours is old. If the page says email is unavailable right now, the service has reached its sending limit or cannot send at the moment: try again later. Signing in to an existing email account does not need an email and keeps working.
Will saved work appear on another device?
Yes, when you deliberately enable account sync and connect the other device to that same account. Guest work stays local unless you import it. You can also move work using an exported backup or study file. Apple backup and restore is separate.
Why does a saved passage ask for review?
A verified Bible-text or reference correction may affect a passage saved earlier. The review screen lets you compare the saved material with the current text and choose whether to keep the saved version or update it. Your personal note and memory practice are preserved; review the choices before accepting a move.
A page or control is not working. What should I do?
Close and reopen the app and check for an available app update. If the issue continues, contact support with the screen name, what you tapped, your device model, iOS version, and app version from Settings. A screenshot can help, but remove private information first. Avoid deleting the app as a first troubleshooting step because that removes local saved work.
Contact app support
For a problem with the app, a content correction, or a privacy question, email Eternal Word Study.
Email supportPlease include the relevant book, passage, or screen and a brief description of the issue. Never send a password or payment information.