Bible MCP

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bible-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

16 tools

• get_passage

  Get Bible text for a reference like 'John 3:16', 'John 3:16-18', 'Genesis 1', or 'Tobit 4:5' (Apocrypha requires version='WEB'). Versions: BSB, WEB.

• search

  Full-text search (stemmed, ranked). Supports phrases in quotes, AND/OR/NOT, e.g. 'living water', 'faith AND works NOT law'. Optional book filter e.g. 'Psalms'. NOTE: porter stemming conflates related surface forms — 'desert' also matches 'deserted' and 'deserts' (as m

• get_cross_references

  Cross-references for a verse (OpenBible.info, ranked by community votes), with the target text included. E.g. reference='Romans 5:12'.

• get_entity

  Look up a biblical person, place, event, or people group by name (Theographic knowledge graph). Returns details and where they appear. entity_type optional: person | place | event | people_group.

• entities_in_passage

  List the people, places, and events linked to a verse or chapter, e.g. 'Genesis 14' or 'John 3:16'.

• get_concept

  Look up a theological concept or lexical keyword in the OT+NT concept graph (5,673 nodes seeded from Easton's Bible Dictionary — see DESIGN.md #5). Returns its definition (with a pointer to the full Easton entry), verse anchors, and entities that instantiate it (e.g.

• concepts_in_passage

  List theological concepts and lexical keywords linked to a verse or chapter via the OT+NT concept graph (seeded from Easton's Bible Dictionary), e.g. 'Genesis 14' or 'John 3:16'. Complements entities_in_passage (people/places/ events) with abstract themes and keyword

• get_concept_relations

  Typed relations for a concept in the OT+NT concept graph: broader/narrower (taxonomy), causes, part_of, symbol_of, fulfills, contrasts — ~430 edges, hand-reviewed against cited evidence (Phase 5/6, weight>=10 only, see DESIGN.md #5). Excludes the much larger 'associat

• compare_versions

  Show a verse or short range in both BSB and WEB side by side.

• word_study

  Original-language word study across the whole Bible. Query by Strong's number ('G26', 'H2617', zero-padding optional — 'H953' works), lemma (pointed or unpointed: 'חֶסֶד' or 'חסד', accented or bare Greek), Hebrew/Aramaic transliteration ('miqweh' finds מִקְוֶה, macron

• get_interlinear

  Word-by-word original language for a verse or short range: surface form, lemma, Strong's, gloss, morphology (Hebrew/Aramaic OT, Greek NT). For OT verses also shows Septuagint Greek surface text where available (Swete edition — Genesis-Malachi plus Apocrypha, Theodotio

• read_work

  Read a prose work from the corpus by paragraph range. Works: CONFESSIONS (Augustine), IMITATION (à Kempis), PILGRIM (Bunyan), PRESENCE (Brother Lawrence), JULIAN (Julian of Norwich), ORTHODOXY (Chesterton), 1CLEMENT (Clement of Rome), BARNABAS (Epistle of Barnabas). C

• semantic_search

  Meaning-based search across the whole corpus — scripture AND prose works — using embeddings, optionally fused with keyword search (hybrid, recommended). Finds passages about a theme even with no shared words, e.g. 'divine self-emptying', 'the soul's dark night'. kind

• find_similar

  Find passages semantically similar to a given verse or prose paragraph ref — across scripture, Apocrypha, and the classics. E.g. 'Philippians 2:7' or 'JULIAN.27.2'. Powers parallel-finding across corpus layers.

• get_citations

  Where a Bible verse is cited by name in the patristic corpus, extracted from the translators' own footnotes (tier 1). E.g. reference='Ephesians 5:21'. Complements get_cross_references, which links scripture to scripture; this links patristic text to scripture. COVERAG

• corpus_info

  What's in the corpus: documents, layers, licenses, and counts.

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