Bible Verse Search -> Text Comparison

Chris Heil

I am trying to build a collection that would include all my English-language Bibles that contain the verse Luke 16:8. What would be an easy way to build this collection?

What started me down this rabbit trail, I had already built a collection of all my English-language Bibles (type:Bible AND lang:English) which I realize would include many that are OT only or translations of only 1 or 2 books that are not Luke.  When I use the Text Comparison tool with this collection for Luke 16:8, I assumed it would ignore the Bibles that do not include the verse.  Instead I am getting the message below.  Is this message expected?  Shouldn't the message also include which resource (or maybe which first resource) does not contain "Luke 16:8"?

Kevin A

Hi Chris,

You could manually tag each bible which has this passage, and then create the collection based on the tag.

I don't think you can automate this, but maybe someone else knows of a way.

Andrew Batishko

You need the first resource in the list of selected resources to be a Bible with broad coverage (both OT and NT). However, the order of books in a collection is indeterminate. In order to get around this problem, add a specific Bible that you want to use as the primary resource and then drag it so that it is listed before your English Bibles collection.

Chris Heil

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310269#Comment_1310269

Andrew Batishko said:

You need the first resource in the list of selected resources to be a Bible with broad coverage (both OT and NT). However, the order of books in a collection is indeterminate. In order to get around this problem, add a specific Bible that you want to use as the primary resource and then drag it so that it is listed before your English Bibles collection.

Including a primary resource and then dragging it above the collection worked great. I did not know you could drag to reorder in that tool so I learned an additional helpful tip for later too. Thanks Andrew.