What is available
CSB and KJV bundled, plus support for XML Bibles. Pick a range, step verse by verse, and the reference appears on every output.
On every tier, including FREE.
What changes
The Saturday-night version of this task is familiar: open a Bible site, find the passage, copy it, paste it into slides, break it across screens sensibly, check nothing is cut off, add the reference to each one.
Twenty minutes, every week, for something that is the same shape every time. And the result is fixed... if the speaker reads two verses further than planned, the slides stop.
Selecting a range instead removes both problems. The passage is text the software has, not slides someone built. Stepping through it is stepping through verses. Going further than planned is simply continuing.
Why it is on the free tier
Because it is not a production feature. It is a content basic... the equivalent of being able to show a song.
I charge for capability: more cameras, higher resolution, hardware encoding, multi-site distribution. Reading a passage on screen is not that. A small congregation with no budget should not be pasting verses into slides on a Saturday night because the software would not do the ordinary thing.
What it does
Range selection. Pick a start and end; the passage is ready.
Verse-by-verse stepping. Forward and back, at the pace the reading actually goes.
The reference on every output. Room, stream, recording, second screens... without adding it to each slide by hand.
Two translations included. CSB and KJV.
Your own, via XML. If you use a translation you already hold in that format, it can be added.
Who benefits
Anyone building slides for readings. The whole task disappears.
Venues where the passage changes late. A speaker who decides on Sunday morning is no longer a slide-building emergency.
Bilingual congregations. The passage is text, so the same stacking that works for song lyrics works here.
Anyone who has ever had a reading go past the last slide. There is no last slide.
Practical notes
Check the break points. Long verses need splitting across screens, and the automatic break is not always where you would put it. Worth a look for a long reading.
Decide the reference format once. Where it sits, how it reads. Consistency matters more than the specific choice.
Test a passage on your actual screen before the service. Text sized for the operator's monitor is not text sized for the back row.
For very long readings, consider whether the screen helps. A whole chapter on screen is a lot of stepping. Sometimes the reference alone, with people reading their own copies, is the better call... the software should not decide that for you.
Why this is news rather than a feature note
Because the thing being announced is not really a capability. It is twenty minutes a week returned to whoever was doing it, and one fewer reason for a service to depend on someone having prepared correctly on Saturday.
That is the shape most of my work takes. Not doing something new... removing something a person was doing that they should never have needed to.
A note on translations
Two are bundled because two cover most English-language use. If your venue reads from something else, XML is the route... a format many translations are distributed in, and one you may already hold if you have used other presentation software.
Worth checking before you need it: confirm your translation loads and displays correctly on a quiet afternoon, not on the morning someone plans to read from it. A translation that will not load is a slide-building emergency you thought you had removed.
Available now on every tier, including free.