Building a Bible app or website but drowning in the complexity of organizing Scripture content across languages and formats? Bible Brain, the developer API from Faith Comes By Hearing, gives you straightforward REST endpoints for Bible text, audio, and video — so you can focus on your app instead of wrangling content.^1
Bible Brain (also known as the Digital Bible Platform v4) serves Bible content in over 2,500 languages, including dramatized audio recordings, plain and formatted text, Gospel Films, and adaptive bitrate audio streaming.^2 The API is well-documented with Postman collections, core concept guides, and example user flows to help developers get started quickly.^3 Powered apps include Bible.is, Subsplash's Church App, the Gideon Bible App, United Bible Societies, SIL's Scripture App Builder, and Kolo Africa — together reaching millions of listeners worldwide.^1
Bible Brain is rooted in a remarkable origin story. Faith Comes By Hearing was founded in 1972 by Jerry and Anet Jackson as a small cassette tape lending library called Hosanna. After visiting a Hopi Indian reservation and discovering that written Bibles went unused due to illiteracy, the Jacksons committed to recording Scripture in audio for oral communities.^4 That small library grew into a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit — continuously highest-ranked on Charity Navigator — that has produced audio Bibles in over 1,500 languages and set up nearly a million Bible listening groups worldwide.^4 Co-founder Anet Jackson passed away in December 2025 at age 90, leaving a legacy of millions who heard Scripture in their own language for the first time.^6
The API is free for non-commercial use, and the FCBH GitHub organization remains actively maintained with recent commits in 2026.^7
Notable- Vision 2033: FCBH aims to provide God's Word in every language that needs it by 2033^1
- Member of the Forum of Bible Agencies International and the Wycliffe Global Alliance^4
- Bible Brain powers Bible.is, which offers Scripture in 2,200+ languages with audio, video, and text^8
- Open-source repos available on GitHub with active development^7
- Comprehensive developer docs with Postman collections and interactive API reference^3
