The Bible as an Obsidian Vault

Download the vault

One ZIP, 32,509 Markdown notes, no dependencies. Open it in Obsidian (or any Markdown editor) and start exploring.

Browse the graph

A live force-directed view of the cross-reference network. Start at the 66 books, sized by how many cross-references each takes part in. Click a book to drill in — the graph rebuilds with one node per chapter, edges weighted by the references between them. Click a chapter to read it in the explorer. Drag any node, hover to trace, use ← Back to zoom out. The full 32,500-note version lives in the download above.

What's inside

A flat graph of atomic notes. Obsidian resolves every [[wikilink]] by filename, so the links knit the whole vault together into one graph.

• books/<Book>.md — one note per book, linking its 66 most-connected books, its top verses, and every one of its chapters.
• chapters/<Book> <ch>.md — one note per chapter (e.g. Genesis 1.md, 1 John 4.md), linking all of its verses and back to its book.
• verses/<Book> <ch>.<vs>.md — one note for every verse (e.g. John 3.16.md). KJV text as a blockquote, a ranked ## Cross-references list, plus ## Chapter and ## Book backlinks.
• topics/<Topic>.md — the top 150 topics from the OpenBible.info topical Bible, each a ranked list of verse links.
• Home.md — a Map-of-Content linking every book and topic.

Drill the whole hierarchy in Obsidian — open a book, click a chapter, click a verse, follow a cross-reference. Every note carries #tags (bible, book/chapter/verse/topic, testament, book) and aliases, so search, tag panes and the graph view all work out of the box.

Sample notes

A verse note, verses/John 3.16.md:

---
reference: "John 3:16"
book: "John"
chapter: 3
verse: 16
testament: "New Testament"
cross_references: 23
tags: [bible, verse, new-testament, john]
aliases: ["John 3:16"]
---
> For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

## Cross-references

- [[Romans 5.8|Romans 5:8]] — *871 votes*
- [[1 John 4.9|1 John 4:9–10]] — *618 votes*
- [[John 3.15|John 3:15]] — *439 votes*
- [[Romans 8.32|Romans 8:32]] — *434 votes*
- [[John 11.25|John 11:25–26]] — *400 votes*
- [[John 6.40|John 6:40]] — *344 votes*
- [[John 3.36|John 3:36]] — *330 votes*
- [[1 John 4.19|1 John 4:19]] — *315 votes*
- [[John 10.28|John 10:28]] — *287 votes*
- [[1 Timothy 1.15|1 Timothy 1:15–16]] — *261 votes*
- [[Romans 5.10|Romans 5:10]] — *243 votes*
- [[John 1.29|John 1:29]] — *218 votes*
- [[2 Thessalonians 2.16|2 Thessalonians 2:16]] — *208 votes*
- [[2 Corinthians 5.19|2 Corinthians 5:19–21]] — *196 votes*
- [[Ephesians 2.4|Ephesians 2:4]] — *182 votes*
- [[Matthew 9.13|Matthew 9:13]] — *174 votes*
- [[Revelation 1.5|Revelation 1:5]] — *159 votes*
- [[John 1.14|John 1:14]] — *152 votes*
- [[Genesis 22.12|Genesis 22:12]] — *148 votes*
- [[Titus 3.4|Titus 3:4]] — *142 votes*
- [[John 1.18|John 1:18]] — *132 votes*
- [[Mark 12.6|Mark 12:6]] — *122 votes*
- [[Luke 2.14|Luke 2:14]] — *118 votes*

## Book

[[John]]

A book note, books/John.md:

---
book: "John"
testament: "New Testament"
chapters: 21
cross_references: 20673
tags: [bible, book, new-testament]
aliases: ["John"]
---
# John

New Testament book of 21 chapters, taking part in 20,673 cross-references across Scripture.

## Most connected books

- [[Matthew]] — *1,956 shared references*
- [[Luke]] — *1,674 shared references*
- [[Acts]] — *1,300 shared references*
- [[Psalms]] — *1,067 shared references*
- [[Mark]] — *987 shared references*
- [[Isaiah]] — *884 shared references*
- [[1 John]] — *722 shared references*
- [[Romans]] — *714 shared references*
- [[Hebrews]] — *556 shared references*
- [[Revelation]] — *527 shared references*
- [[1 Corinthians]] — *470 shared references*
- [[Ephesians]] — *359 shared references*

## Most cross-referenced verses

- [[John 14.26|John 14:26]] — *73 cross-references*
- [[John 14.27|John 14:27]] — *64 cross-references*
- [[John 6.27|John 6:27]] — *62 cross-references*
- [[John 10.28|John 10:28]] — *56 cross-references*
- [[John 14.6|John 14:6]] — *56 cross-references*
- [[John 15.16|John 15:16]] — *55 cross-references*
- [[John 1.14|John 1:14]] — *54 cross-references*
- [[John 1.51|John 1:51]] — *54 cross-references*
- [[John 1.29|John 1:29]] — *53 cross-references*
- [[John 5.39|John 5:39]] — *47 cross-references*
- [[John 20.17|John 20:17]] — *47 cross-references*
- [[John 5.23|John 5:23]] — *46 cross-references*
- [[John 7.37|John 7:37]] — *46 cross-references*
- [[John 17.11|John 17:11]] — *46 cross-references*
- [[John 4.10|John 4:10]] — *45 cross-references*

A topic note, topics/Helping Others.md:

---
topic: "Helping Others"
votes: 829782
tags: [bible, topic]
aliases: ["Helping Others"]
---
# Helping Others

Bible verses about **helping others**, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 829,782 votes.

## Verses

- [[Philippians 2.4|Philippians 2:4]] — *24,420 votes*
- [[Hebrews 13.16|Hebrews 13:16]] — *23,916 votes*
- [[Galatians 6.2|Galatians 6:2]] — *23,261 votes*
- [[Proverbs 19.17|Proverbs 19:17]] — *22,118 votes*
- [[Luke 6.38|Luke 6:38]] — *21,705 votes*
- [[Acts 20.35|Acts 20:35]] — *20,594 votes*
- [[James 2.14|James 2:14-17]] — *19,452 votes*
- [[1 John 3.17|1 John 3:17]] — *19,449 votes*
- [[Proverbs 22.9|Proverbs 22:9]] — *19,435 votes*
- [[Matthew 5.16|Matthew 5:16]] — *18,742 votes*
- [[Matthew 5.42|Matthew 5:42]] — *18,040 votes*
- [[Romans 15.1|Romans 15:1]] — *16,493 votes*
- [[John 15.12|John 15:12]] — *16,159 votes*
- [[Deuteronomy 15.11|Deuteronomy 15:11]] — *15,985 votes*
- [[Proverbs 3.27|Proverbs 3:27]] — *15,418 votes*
- [[Matthew 25.35|Matthew 25:35-40]] — *14,458 votes*
- [[Romans 12.13|Romans 12:13]] — *14,047 votes*
- [[Hebrews 6.10|Hebrews 6:10]] — *13,721 votes*
- [[Luke 3.10|Luke 3:10-11]] — *12,486 votes*
- [[Luke 12.33|Luke 12:33-34]] — *11,737 votes*
- [[James 1.27|James 1:27]] — *11,429 votes*
- [[John 15.13|John 15:13]] — *11,190 votes*
- [[Matthew 10.8|Matthew 10:8]] — *10,685 votes*
- [[Matthew 25.44|Matthew 25:44-45]] — *10,407 votes*
- [[Proverbs 11.25|Proverbs 11:25]] — *10,389 votes*
- [[Ephesians 4.28|Ephesians 4:28]] — *9,580 votes*
- [[1 Timothy 5.8|1 Timothy 5:8]] — *8,766 votes*
- [[Isaiah 1.17|Isaiah 1:17]] — *8,605 votes*
- [[1 John 4.19|1 John 4:19-20]] — *8,230 votes*
- [[Exodus 17.12|Exodus 17:12]] — *7,790 votes*
- [[Proverbs 28.27|Proverbs 28:27]] — *7,788 votes*
- [[Proverbs 29.7|Proverbs 29:7]] — *7,657 votes*
- [[Proverbs 14.31|Proverbs 14:31]] — *7,316 votes*
- [[Isaiah 58.10|Isaiah 58:10]] — *7,183 votes*
- [[Proverbs 21.13|Proverbs 21:13]] — *7,125 votes*
- [[Proverbs 31.9|Proverbs 31:9]] — *6,936 votes*
- [[Ephesians 2.10|Ephesians 2:10]] — *6,892 votes*
- [[Galatians 6.9|Galatians 6:9]] — *6,835 votes*
- [[Romans 12.8|Romans 12:8]] — *6,635 votes*
- [[James 1.5|James 1:5]] — *6,388 votes*