# io.github.nirajagarwal/bible-mcp (remote · bible-mcp-server.fly.dev)

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

- Trust score: 63/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-07

## Components

- remote · `bible-mcp-server.fly.dev`: 63/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.11.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-07.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 13 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 82/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1329 tokens (~102/item across 13 items; 13 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http nirajagarwal-bible-mcp https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.nirajagarwal-bible-mcp]
url = "https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "nirajagarwal-bible-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add nirajagarwal-bible-mcp --url https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  nirajagarwal-bible-mcp:
    url: "https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp"
```

### Other

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

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-07 (score 63, 0)

- [functional] The server no longer declares the “experimental” capability

### 2026-08-06 (score 63, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_interlinear” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional] Schema quality: excellent → good

### 2026-08-05 (score 63, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-04 (score 62, 0)

- [security] Tool “word_study” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Schema quality: good → excellent

### 2026-08-03 (score 62)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (13)

### `get_passage` (~79 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)
- `version` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `search` (~133 tokens)

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 merits) in prose layers; quote exact phrases or
    add AND-terms to disambiguate.

Input parameters:

- `book` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)
- `version` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `get_cross_references` (~58 tokens)

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

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `reference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `get_entity` (~67 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `entity_type` (string)
- `name` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `entities_in_passage` (~49 tokens)

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

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `compare_versions` (~31 tokens)

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

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `word_study` (~267 tokens)

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, macrons optional), or English gloss
    ('lovingkindness'). Returns occurrence counts, gloss range, book distribution,
    and sample verses. NOTE: homographs are split by letter-suffixed Strong's
    variants (e.g. H4723 'hope' vs H4723a 'gathering of waters' — same written
    form) — when a gloss range looks too narrow for a word you suspect is richer,
    probe the lettered variants; the output lists every variant lemma it finds
    under your query. Gloss-keyed queries match substrings and may conflate
    lemmas — prefer Strong's or lemma queries for exact counts.
    language optional: grc | hbo | arc.

Input parameters:

- `language` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `get_interlinear` (~131 tokens)

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, Theodotion Daniel/Susanna/Bel; no lemma/Strong's/
    morphology in that source, surface form only). E.g. 'John 1:1' or
    'Genesis 1:1-3'.

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `read_work` (~151 tokens)

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). Chapters = books/chapters of the work; use
    search(version=<WORK>) to find passages first, or corpus_info() for the full list.

Input parameters:

- `chapter` (integer)
- `end` (integer)
- `start` (integer)
- `work` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `semantic_search` (~106 tokens)

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 optional: verse | window | paragraph.

Input parameters:

- `hybrid` (boolean)
- `kind` (string)
- `query` (string, required)
- `top_k` (integer)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `find_similar` (~83 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `reference` (string, required)
- `top_k` (integer)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `get_citations` (~152 tokens)

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. COVERAGE NOTE: footnote extraction has
    known recall gaps — an empty result is normal and does NOT mean the verse is
    uncited; full-text `search` within the patristic works is the thorough probe
    (verbatim quotations are regularly found that the footnote index missed).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `reference` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `corpus_info` (~22 tokens)

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

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-07: 63
- 2026-08-06: 63
- 2026-08-05: 63
- 2026-08-04: 62
- 2026-08-03: 62

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://bible-mcp-server.fly.dev/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/nirajagarwal/bible-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nirajagarwal-bible-mcp/bible-mcp-server