io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp

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Bible corpus MCP server: scripture, Greek/Hebrew interlinear data, cross-refs, semantic search.

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io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp is an MCP server that bible corpus MCP server: scripture, Greek/Hebrew interlinear data, cross-refs, semantic search. Its tool list has not been published yet over http, requires no API key, and scores 54/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktophttp · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bible-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "/path/to/bible-mcp/server.py"
      ],
      "command": "python3"
    }
  }
}

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An MCP server for Christian scholarship and research. Non-commercial, aiming to become a public resource. See corpus-survey.md for the full source/license landscape and ROADMAP.md for direction.

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Is io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp safe to use?: io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp?: io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp do?: io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp provides 5 tools: Irenaeus, Versemap, Tools, Prompts, Setup. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp?: io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses http transport.
Is io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 20 days ago. It has 2 GitHub stars.

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What's in it (v0.11)

Data	Source	License
Berean Standard Bible (66 books)	berean.bible	Public Domain
World English Bible, Ecumenical (83 books incl. Apocrypha)	ebible.org	Public Domain
Septuagint (Brenton translation, 1851) — OT + Apocrypha, incl. Susanna/Bel and the Dragon/Epistle of Jeremiah as separate books; Psalms remapped to standard English/KJV numbering (LXX's own numbering diverges throughout most of the Psalter — verified verse-by-verse against WEB); Jeremiah, Daniel-Greek, Exodus, Job, Esther-Greek, and Baruch retain Brenton's native LXX chapter/verse structure, which differs from BSB/WEB in these books (reordering and/or length, not just numbering)	ebible.org	Public Domain
Septuagint, Greek text (Swete edition, Cambridge 1887–1894) — Genesis through Malachi plus Apocrypha, Theodotion Daniel/Susanna/Bel; same Psalms remap and native-structure caveats as the English Brenton text above. Word-level (surface form only, no lemma/Strong's/morphology), powers `get_interlinear` alongside the Hebrew/Aramaic OT and Greek NT	Open Greek and Latin Project / First1KGreek, via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete	CC BY-SA 4.0
613,690 original-language words: Greek NT + Hebrew/Aramaic OT with lemmas, Strong's, morphology, glosses, semantic domains	MACULA (Clear-Bible/Biblica)	CC BY 4.0
~345,000 ranked cross-references	openbible.info	CC BY
~4,800 people/places/events/groups + 53,000 verse links	Theographic Bible Metadata	CC BY-SA 4.0
Six PD classics: Augustine's Confessions, Imitation of Christ, Pilgrim's Progress, Practice of the Presence of God, Julian's Revelations, Chesterton's Orthodoxy	Project Gutenberg	Public Domain
The Apostolic Fathers, ten works: 1 & 2 Clement, Epistle of Barnabas, Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistles of Ignatius (shorter recension), Martyrdom of Ignatius, Epistle to Diognetus, Pastor of Hermas, Fragments of Papias	ANF (Roberts-Donaldson-Crombie), Project Gutenberg #77576	Public Domain
Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Books I–V + Fragments — 806 sections addressed as `IREN-AH<book>.<chapter>.<section>` so standard citations (AH 3.3.4) resolve directly; 1,598 tier-1 scripture citations	ANF vol. I (Roberts-Rambaut), Wikisource transcription	Public Domain
Justin Martyr: First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Martyrdom of Justin — 423 sections, ~408 tier-1 citations	ANF vol. I, Wikisource transcription	Public Domain
Tier-1 citation graph: scripture citations extracted from the translators' own footnotes across the patristic shelf (see DESIGN.md §4)	—	—
Versemap: 988 empirically derived MT/NA ↔ English verse alignments across 31 books (Joel 2–4, Malachi 3–4, Hosea, Isaiah 64, Kings/Chronicles/Nehemiah seams, 3 John, Acts 19, Rev 12…), gloss-validated; plus the Psalms superscription offsets	derived from corpus	—
Research outputs layer (`layer='output'`): Layer 0 corpus surveys + Layer 2 research briefs for potter-and-clay, living water, wilderness — searchable, embedded, with `draws_on` links back to their grounding refs	generated in-project	—
~112,400 embeddings (verse/window/paragraph) for semantic + hybrid search across every layer	bge-small-en-v1.5, generated locally	—

Data

Source

License

Berean Standard Bible (66 books)

berean.bible

Public Domain

World English Bible, Ecumenical (83 books incl. Apocrypha)

ebible.org

Public Domain

Septuagint (Brenton translation, 1851) — OT + Apocrypha, incl. Susanna/Bel and the Dragon/Epistle of Jeremiah as separate books; Psalms remapped to standard English/KJV numbering (LXX's own numbering diverges throughout most of the Psalter — verified verse-by-verse against WEB); Jeremiah, Daniel-Greek, Exodus, Job, Esther-Greek, and Baruch retain Brenton's native LXX chapter/verse structure, which differs from BSB/WEB in these books (reordering and/or length, not just numbering)

ebible.org

Public Domain

Septuagint, Greek text (Swete edition, Cambridge 1887–1894) — Genesis through Malachi plus Apocrypha, Theodotion Daniel/Susanna/Bel; same Psalms remap and native-structure caveats as the English Brenton text above. Word-level (surface form only, no lemma/Strong's/morphology), powers get_interlinear alongside the Hebrew/Aramaic OT and Greek NT

Open Greek and Latin Project / First1KGreek, via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete

CC BY-SA 4.0

613,690 original-language words: Greek NT + Hebrew/Aramaic OT with lemmas, Strong's, morphology, glosses, semantic domains

MACULA (Clear-Bible/Biblica)

CC BY 4.0

~345,000 ranked cross-references

openbible.info

CC BY

~4,800 people/places/events/groups + 53,000 verse links

Theographic Bible Metadata

CC BY-SA 4.0

Six PD classics: Augustine's Confessions, Imitation of Christ, Pilgrim's Progress, Practice of the Presence of God, Julian's Revelations, Chesterton's Orthodoxy

Project Gutenberg

Public Domain

The Apostolic Fathers, ten works: 1 & 2 Clement, Epistle of Barnabas, Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistles of Ignatius (shorter recension), Martyrdom of Ignatius, Epistle to Diognetus, Pastor of Hermas, Fragments of Papias

ANF (Roberts-Donaldson-Crombie), Project Gutenberg #77576

Public Domain

Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Books I–V + Fragments — 806 sections addressed as IREN-AH<book>.<chapter>.<section> so standard citations (AH 3.3.4) resolve directly; 1,598 tier-1 scripture citations

ANF vol. I (Roberts-Rambaut), Wikisource transcription

Public Domain

Justin Martyr: First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Martyrdom of Justin — 423 sections, ~408 tier-1 citations

ANF vol. I, Wikisource transcription

Public Domain

Tier-1 citation graph: scripture citations extracted from the translators' own footnotes across the patristic shelf (see DESIGN.md §4)

—

Versemap: 988 empirically derived MT/NA ↔ English verse alignments across 31 books (Joel 2–4, Malachi 3–4, Hosea, Isaiah 64, Kings/Chronicles/Nehemiah seams, 3 John, Acts 19, Rev 12…), gloss-validated; plus the Psalms superscription offsets

derived from corpus

—

Research outputs layer (layer='output'): Layer 0 corpus surveys + Layer 2 research briefs for potter-and-clay, living water, wilderness — searchable, embedded, with draws_on links back to their grounding refs

generated in-project

—

~112,400 embeddings (verse/window/paragraph) for semantic + hybrid search across every layer

bge-small-en-v1.5, generated locally

—

All in one SQLite file (db/bible.db, ~230MB) with FTS5 full-text search. Prose works are addressed as WORK.chapter.paragraph. See DESIGN.md for the architecture rationale.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp safe to use?

io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp?

io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp do?

io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp provides 5 tools: Irenaeus, Versemap, Tools, Prompts, Setup. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp?

io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses http transport.

Is io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp actively maintained?

io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 20 days ago. It has 2 GitHub stars.

What's in it (v0.11)

Data	Source	License
Berean Standard Bible (66 books)	berean.bible	Public Domain
World English Bible, Ecumenical (83 books incl. Apocrypha)	ebible.org	Public Domain
Septuagint (Brenton translation, 1851) — OT + Apocrypha, incl. Susanna/Bel and the Dragon/Epistle of Jeremiah as separate books; Psalms remapped to standard English/KJV numbering (LXX's own numbering diverges throughout most of the Psalter — verified verse-by-verse against WEB); Jeremiah, Daniel-Greek, Exodus, Job, Esther-Greek, and Baruch retain Brenton's native LXX chapter/verse structure, which differs from BSB/WEB in these books (reordering and/or length, not just numbering)	ebible.org	Public Domain
Septuagint, Greek text (Swete edition, Cambridge 1887–1894) — Genesis through Malachi plus Apocrypha, Theodotion Daniel/Susanna/Bel; same Psalms remap and native-structure caveats as the English Brenton text above. Word-level (surface form only, no lemma/Strong's/morphology), powers `get_interlinear` alongside the Hebrew/Aramaic OT and Greek NT	Open Greek and Latin Project / First1KGreek, via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete	CC BY-SA 4.0
613,690 original-language words: Greek NT + Hebrew/Aramaic OT with lemmas, Strong's, morphology, glosses, semantic domains	MACULA (Clear-Bible/Biblica)	CC BY 4.0
~345,000 ranked cross-references	openbible.info	CC BY
~4,800 people/places/events/groups + 53,000 verse links	Theographic Bible Metadata	CC BY-SA 4.0
Six PD classics: Augustine's Confessions, Imitation of Christ, Pilgrim's Progress, Practice of the Presence of God, Julian's Revelations, Chesterton's Orthodoxy	Project Gutenberg	Public Domain
The Apostolic Fathers, ten works: 1 & 2 Clement, Epistle of Barnabas, Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistles of Ignatius (shorter recension), Martyrdom of Ignatius, Epistle to Diognetus, Pastor of Hermas, Fragments of Papias	ANF (Roberts-Donaldson-Crombie), Project Gutenberg #77576	Public Domain
Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Books I–V + Fragments — 806 sections addressed as `IREN-AH<book>.<chapter>.<section>` so standard citations (AH 3.3.4) resolve directly; 1,598 tier-1 scripture citations	ANF vol. I (Roberts-Rambaut), Wikisource transcription	Public Domain
Justin Martyr: First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Martyrdom of Justin — 423 sections, ~408 tier-1 citations	ANF vol. I, Wikisource transcription	Public Domain
Tier-1 citation graph: scripture citations extracted from the translators' own footnotes across the patristic shelf (see DESIGN.md §4)	—	—
Versemap: 988 empirically derived MT/NA ↔ English verse alignments across 31 books (Joel 2–4, Malachi 3–4, Hosea, Isaiah 64, Kings/Chronicles/Nehemiah seams, 3 John, Acts 19, Rev 12…), gloss-validated; plus the Psalms superscription offsets	derived from corpus	—
Research outputs layer (`layer='output'`): Layer 0 corpus surveys + Layer 2 research briefs for potter-and-clay, living water, wilderness — searchable, embedded, with `draws_on` links back to their grounding refs	generated in-project	—
~112,400 embeddings (verse/window/paragraph) for semantic + hybrid search across every layer	bge-small-en-v1.5, generated locally	—

Data

Source

License

Berean Standard Bible (66 books)

berean.bible

Public Domain

World English Bible, Ecumenical (83 books incl. Apocrypha)

ebible.org

Public Domain

ebible.org

Public Domain

Open Greek and Latin Project / First1KGreek, via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete

CC BY-SA 4.0

613,690 original-language words: Greek NT + Hebrew/Aramaic OT with lemmas, Strong's, morphology, glosses, semantic domains

MACULA (Clear-Bible/Biblica)

CC BY 4.0

~345,000 ranked cross-references

openbible.info

CC BY

~4,800 people/places/events/groups + 53,000 verse links

Theographic Bible Metadata

CC BY-SA 4.0

Six PD classics: Augustine's Confessions, Imitation of Christ, Pilgrim's Progress, Practice of the Presence of God, Julian's Revelations, Chesterton's Orthodoxy

Project Gutenberg

Public Domain

ANF (Roberts-Donaldson-Crombie), Project Gutenberg #77576

Public Domain

ANF vol. I (Roberts-Rambaut), Wikisource transcription

Public Domain

Justin Martyr: First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Martyrdom of Justin — 423 sections, ~408 tier-1 citations

ANF vol. I, Wikisource transcription

Public Domain

Tier-1 citation graph: scripture citations extracted from the translators' own footnotes across the patristic shelf (see DESIGN.md §4)

—

derived from corpus

—

generated in-project

—

~112,400 embeddings (verse/window/paragraph) for semantic + hybrid search across every layer

bge-small-en-v1.5, generated locally

—

All in one SQLite file (db/bible.db, ~230MB) with FTS5 full-text search. Prose works are addressed as WORK.chapter.paragraph. See DESIGN.md for the architecture rationale.