Bible & Stoic

One verse, one Stoic passage

Every day, one verse from Scripture sits beside one passage from the Stoics — Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus. Both answering the same human situation, written centuries and a world apart.

Underneath, four short lines: where the two meet, where they part, what it comes to, and one thing to try today. Nothing here tells you which tradition is right. That part is yours.

What’s inside

• 150 pairings, each one written by hand
• Both corpora in full — the King James Bible, and Meditations, the Moral Letters and the Enchiridion
• One search across both
• Highlights, notes and bookmarks, coloured by theme
• Commitments: one sentence you write yourself, and whether it held
• A home-screen widget, and a daily reminder if you want one

No account, no server

There is no sign-in and nothing to subscribe to. No analytics, no tracker, no advertising. Everything you write stays on your own device and nothing is sent to us, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.

Public domain, properly credited

Scripture is the King James Version of 1611. Marcus Aurelius is George Long’s translation, Seneca is Richard Mott Gummere’s, Epictetus is T. W. Higginson’s. The engravings are Gustave Doré’s and Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s. Every screen that shows a text credits its translator.