Title: Could not retrieve Scriptures from … error
Last modified: February 11, 2023

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# Could not retrieve Scriptures from … error

 *  Resolved [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/)
 * Dear developper of  Bible Reading Plans plugin,
 * Firstly, we would like to thank you very much for this wonderful plugin that 
   can help us to embed a daily reading plan of the Bible in our website. May our
   God bless you!
 * Unfortunately, we are not able to display it because of the following error :
 *  TIMEOUT ERROR: Could not retrieve Scriptures from [Bible Brain (aka Digital Bible Platform) API](https://biblebrain.com/).
 * We really need your help.
 * Thank you for your time.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcould-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16462190)
 * I suspect the problem lies with your web hosting service not allowing that API
   connection or sending the request via IPv6 instead of IPv4.
 * However please give me the short-code you are using, so that I can test it from
   my web hosting service to be sure there is not something wrong with it.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16462211)
 * Thank you for your quick reply. If it is due to a my web hosting service, how
   can I do?
 * The short-code you are using is
 * [bible-reading-plan reading_plan=”mcheyne” source=”DBP” bible_id=”FRNTLS”]
 * Thank you again.
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16462246)
 * Your short-code works just fine on my test server.
 * I recommend you contact your web hosting service about this. They may be blocking
   calls to APIs for some reason. Or it may be an IPv6 vs IPv4 issue. Or it may 
   be something else.
 * Please let me know what they say and whether or not they are able to resolve 
   this for you.
 * I may not be able to respond more on this until the middle of next week. But 
   I do very much want to see this get resolved for you.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16462341)
 * Thank you very much! We shall try it with our web hosting service then.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16464428)
 * Hello,
 * The issue is solved. Our web hosting service helped us to solve it. The error
   is caused by PHP version higher than 7.4 (we were using PHP version higher thank
   8.0)
 * We would like to ask you, if you please, to upgrade to PHP 8.0 and above so that
   we can use these recent versions of PHP.
 * Thank you very much!
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16467011)
 * That’s great! Thank you and thank your web hosting service.
 * I should have thought about that possibility myself.
 * I will fix that as soon as I can and publish a new version with the corrections
   to make it work with the latest PHP version.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16467043)
 * Okay, great ! Thank you in advance.
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16519387)
 * Well, this turned out to be much more difficult than I thought it would be. But
   I now have version 2.1.5-beta, which works in the tests I have done with PHP 
   8.2.
 * You can download it at [https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZQcsPVZOcNfDpXqK50A6B3Bw13k7J0zaKS7](https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZQcsPVZOcNfDpXqK50A6B3Bw13k7J0zaKS7)
   and upload it to your plugins.
 * Please let me know whether or not this works for you. If it does, I’ll publish
   it as version 2.1.5 to the WordPress repository.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16519719)
 * Hello drmikegreen,
 * Thank you very much for your hard work.
 * The version 2.1.5 beta is working very well : it is displaying normally the Bible
   reading plan with PHP 8.1 enabled.
 * There is just a little problem in the setting, tab 4. When one clicks on it, 
   it takes a little long time and displays the following error :
 *     ```wp-block-code
       ERROR: Could not retrieve list of versions from the Bible Brain (aka the Digital Bible Platform) API.
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16522351)
 * Great!
 * I’ll look into that problem with retrieving the list of versions and furnish 
   you with a beta-2 version of the plug once I’ve made some progress on that.
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16538014)
 * OK, [@djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/), [@lblwuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lblwuser/).
   and [@xzave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xzave/), I now have that 2.1.5-
   beta-2 version available at:
 * [https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZFCGPVZmP7EI4FXEo0373wg3cfqFYXgKdmV](https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZFCGPVZmP7EI4FXEo0373wg3cfqFYXgKdmV)
 * This should resolve the “ERROR: Could not retrieve list of versions from the 
   Bible Brain (aka the Digital Bible Platform) API” issue.
 * There remains, however, the issue of retrieving and displaying the copyright 
   information for Bible versions from the Bible Brain (aka the Digital Bible Platform)
   API for which this information was not available for earlier versions of this
   plugin. Once I have been able to fix this I’ll publish version 2.1.5 to the WordPress
   repository.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16538505)
 * Hello drmikegreen,
 * Thank you very much for all you did for solving the issues.
 * The 2.1.5-beta-2 version file is not available ; the link seems to be deleted.
 *  Plugin Author [drmikegreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmikegreen/)
 * (@drmikegreen)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16545267)
 * [@djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/), [@lblwuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lblwuser/).
   and [@xzave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xzave/), I have now committed
   Version 2.1.5 to the WordPress repository. It corrects code incompatible with
   PHP 8.2, changes the default version for the DBP API from ESV to NAS, corrects
   DBP headers to include verse numbers, re-corrects Table of Contents so that it
   again displays in the language of the page, and corrects some Scripture references
   for Book of Common Prayer, 2019, Anglican Church in North America.
 * Please let me know whether or not this resolves the problems you had.
 *  Thread Starter [djintelbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djintelbe/)
 * (@djintelbe)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/could-not-retrieve-scriptures-from-error/#post-16545697)
 * Hello drmikegreen,
 * Thank you very much for all you did. The plugin is working very well. The problems
   are all solved.
 * Be blessed!

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