“I used to quote phrases I was certain were Scripture. The day I discovered they weren't — I felt both embarrassed and deeply curious. How many others were doing the same?”
My name is Anthony Kariuki. I'm an indie developer — not a theologian, not a pastor, not a biblical scholar. Just someone who grew up hearing certain phrases repeated so often in church, in conversation, in culture, that I assumed they must be in the Bible.
“God helps those who help themselves.” I said it with confidence. “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” I nodded along when others quoted it. “Money is the root of all evil.” I had no idea that one was a misquote — the Bible actually says the love of money is the root of all evil. That single word changes everything.
When I finally sat down and searched for these phrases in Scripture, I couldn't find them. The experience was humbling — but also clarifying. I hadn't been reading the Bible. I had been reading culture, mistaking it for truth.
I built this tool so that anyone — believer or skeptic, scholar or curious first-timer — can type any phrase and get an honest, non-partisan answer: is it actually in the Bible? No agenda. No denomination. Just Scripture, examined with care.
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Every verdict is grounded in all 31,102 verses of the World English Bible — a modern, accurate, fully public-domain translation. No paraphrases. No interpretations. The text itself.
We don't take sides. Whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or simply curious — the analysis is the same. We report what the text says, not what any tradition prefers.
Some things are directly stated. Others are inferred. Others are pure cultural myths. We distinguish between them clearly, with five precise classifications and a biblical confidence score.
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