The Bible in your AI assistant

Connect your assistant

Claude (claude.ai, desktop and mobile apps)

1. Open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
2. Name it FLOGVIT.bible and paste the server address. Leave the OAuth fields empty.
3. Choose Add. In a chat, open the + menu and check that FLOGVIT.bible is switched on under Connectors.

On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner first adds the connector for the organisation under Organization settings → Connectors.

ChatGPT

1. On chatgpt.com, open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
2. Back in Apps & Connectors, choose Create. Name it FLOGVIT.bible, paste the server address and choose No authentication.
3. Confirm that you trust the application and choose Create. In a chat, choose + → Developer mode and add FLOGVIT.bible.

Developer mode is a beta feature of ChatGPT on the web. Which plans have it, and whether a workspace admin must allow it, is up to OpenAI.

Claude Code

Run this in a terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http flogvit-bible https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flogvit-bible": {
      "url": "https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json — or run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette, choose HTTP and paste the server address:

{
  "servers": {
    "flogvit-bible": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Add this to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flogvit-bible": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add this to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flogvit-bible": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other MCP clients

Any client that can use remote servers over Streamable HTTP needs only the address. A client that can only start local servers reaches it through the mcp-remote bridge:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flogvit-bible": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.bible.flogvit.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

To try the server without an assistant, start the MCP Inspector, choose Streamable HTTP and paste the address:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

What the assistant can look up

The server has thirteen tools. You never call them yourself: ask in your own words, in any of the eight languages on this site, and the assistant chooses.

• get_passage

  One or more passages, side by side in up to five editions, with the translators' notes if you want them

  Try asking: Show me Psalm 23 in English and Norwegian side by side.

• search_bible

  Verses that contain all the words you give, in one edition, a book or a testament

  Try asking: Where does the Bible talk about forgiveness?

• get_original_text

  The Hebrew or Greek of a passage, word by word with explanations (in Norwegian)

  Try asking: What does John 1:1 say in the Greek, word by word?

• search_original_word

  Every verse where a Hebrew or Greek word occurs

  Try asking: Where else is the Hebrew word chesed used?

• get_cross_references

  Related passages for each verse

  Try asking: Which passages are related to Romans 8:28?

• get_chapter_study

  Summary, context, key words, people, themes, stories, prophecies, parallels and timeline for a chapter

  Try asking: Give me the background to Isaiah 53.

• get_book_overview

  An introduction to a book of the Bible

  Try asking: What is the book of Ruth about?

• search_people, get_person

  People of the Bible, their family and the key events of their lives

  Try asking: Who was Tamar?

• search_topics, get_topic

  Stories, themes, prophecies and gospel parallels

  Try asking: Which prophecies point to the Messiah?

• get_daily_verse

  Today's verse

  Try asking: What is today's Bible verse?

• list_editions

  The editions and their licences

  Try asking: Which translations can you read, and what are their licences?

References may be written English or Norwegian style — John 3:16-18, Joh 3,16.18, 1 Cor 13:4-7 — with book names in all eight languages.

The editions and the licence

The assistant reads the same editions as this site:

• OSEN — Open Source English — translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek by the free-bible project · CC BY 4.0
• OSNB — Open Source Norsk Bokmål — translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek by the free-bible project · CC BY 4.0
• OSNN — Open Source Norsk Nynorsk — translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek by the free-bible project · CC BY 4.0
• SBLGNT — SBL Greek New Testament — the Greek New Testament, edited by Michael W. Holmes · CC BY 4.0
• Tanach — Leningrad Codex (tanach.us) — the Hebrew Old Testament · free of restrictions

Using the text elsewhere

OSEN, OSNB and OSNN are free to use, also commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). They are translated from the SBL Greek New Testament, which has the same licence, so wherever you publish text from them — a sermon, a website, an answer you share — it must say where it came from: credit the SBLGNT with a link to sblgnt.com, name the licence, and credit tanach.us for the Hebrew.

The server makes this easy: every passage it returns ends with a source line that names the licence and links to the edition. Keep that line with the text.

The licence of each edition

Privacy and limits

The server needs no account and sets no cookies. It reads only the Bible text and the study material — never anyone's notes, lists or manuscripts. Requests are logged in the same way as visits to this site.

It is free and shared by everyone who uses it. When many requests arrive at once, it answers «busy» for a few seconds, and the assistant can try again.

FLOGVIT privacy policy

Help and source code

Questions, or something that does not work? Write to support@flogvit.com.

• Report a problem on GitHub
• The server's source code

Listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.flogvit/bible.