scripture-lookup

scripture-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from midvash/bible-mcp. It costs 60 tokens per session (943 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for finding, checking, comparing, and citing Bible passages across translations and languages. It uses a Bible MCP server so quoted wording comes from a named version instead of memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for sermon preparation, Bible study, finding passages from remembered wording, comparing translations, checking references, and researching biblical terms or background.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by misremembered wording, translation differences, or incorrect verse numbers. It also provides different lookup methods for references, keywords, whole chapters, related passages, and study material.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bible-by-midvash plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for sermon preparation, Bible study, finding passages from remembered wording, comparing translations, checking references, and researching biblical terms or background.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/midvash/bible-mcp/scripture-lookup
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add midvash/bible-mcp --skill scripture-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/midvash/bible-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bible-by-midvash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.00943
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00094

Measured 7d ago against content hash 61112028d3c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scripture-lookup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/scripture-lookup/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scripture lookup

Retrieve Scripture from the Bible MCP server instead of quoting from memory. Recalled verse text drifts between translations and misnumbers verses; the tools return the exact wording of the version you name.

Picking the right tool

Situation Tool
You have a reference in any language ("João 3:16", "Psalm 23") get_passage
You know book, chapter and verse numbers exactly get_verse
You need a whole chapter get_chapter
You remember wording but not where it is search_bible
You need the same passage in several versions compare_passage
You need to know what is available list_versions, list_books
You want related passages ("what else speaks to this?") get_cross_references
You need background on a chapter, a person, or a term search_study, get_commentary
The question is what an original-language word means get_strongs

get_passage is the usual entry point — it parses natural references and accepts book names in the user's own language, so it saves a lookup step. It also takes ranges that cross chapters ("Romans 8:1-9:5") and several references at once ("John 3:16; Romans 8:1"), so a passage list is one call, not five.

For study, the natural order is: read the passage, call get_commentary for the chapter's context, then get_cross_references on the verse that carries the weight. The server also ships ready-made prompts — sermon preparation, a devotional, a word study, a translation comparison — if the client exposes them.

Original languages

get_strongs takes a Strong's number ("H430", "G2316") or the word itself, in the original script or transliterated ("elohim", "θεός"), and returns the lemma, the senses, and how the KJV renders it, translated into the requested language.

There is no word-by-word mapping between a verse and its Strong's numbers. The morphological source this server has access to arrives without those tags. If you are not certain which entry a given word in a verse maps to, say so instead of asserting one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 84 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 61112028d3c6

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scripture-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository midvash/bible-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 943 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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