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SwordSearcher contains a powerful daily reading plan system that you can leverage right now to begin a Bible plan.

You can use the preset "Bible in a Year" plan to read from the Old and New Testament every day of 2016, or, design your own reading plans. Or do both!

Did you know you can read the Bible through in a whole year in less than 15 minutes a day?

Watch the tutorial video here. (6:33)

How do you cross-reference verses?

That depends on what you want to do. For studying parallel passages and subjects, you will at first need the aid of a study help such as the TSK or the Thompson Chain references (both are included with SwordSearcher). Many printed Bibles come with verse references listed in the margin. These, and the aforementioned books, can be thought of as “soft commentaries” because even linking two verses together implies interpretation.

After a while, you can develop your own cross-reference collection simply through remembering what you have read elsewhere and by making topical verse lists. In a printed Bible, you’d mark these in your margin; in SwordSearcher, you can create a book to store your topical verse lists in, or a personal commentary to record your verse links.

When you want to learn what a word or group of words in a verse mean, you can cross-reference simply by doing a Bible search. My printed Bible contains a short concordance in the back which is very helpful for this. In SwordSearcher, a Bible search is done with just a few keystrokes, and there is a handy short-cut called the Find Related Verses tool, where you can tick check marks next to the words you want to find in other verses. (This is a really powerful tool for developing your own cross-references and keeps it strictly between you and God!)

Be sure to read my tutorial on using the TSK for a practical example of using Bible cross-referencing in study.

-Brandon

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• If you're not sure what version of the Deluxe Library you have, go to the Help menu in SwordSearcher and select Check for Updates.
• If you don't see a tab for a library resource you are looking for, you can look for it by selecting File, Select Module. You can easily choose which library items have visible tabs by selecting Tabs, Select Which Tabs to Show.
• We've got lots of great videos showing various features in SwordSearcher. There are several how-to articles as well.