Bible study with ChatGPT and Claude, connected to your own notes
Connect ChatGPT or Claude to Scripture Deck, and the assistant can read your notes, collections, memory decks, reading plans, and reading log, and look up passages in your Bible library. If you allow it, it can also save what you work out together: a note, a collection, a memory card, a plan, or a book you finished.
Create a free accountSee what you can ask
Scripture Deck and its connector are free, with no subscription or card. ChatGPT and Claude are separate services with their own plans and terms. Sign in if you already have an account.
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See what you can ask
Once you are connected, ask in plain words, as you would ask a study partner who can open your study. These are examples of requests and what each one does in your account:
| You ask | What happens in Scripture Deck |
|---|---|
| “What is my reading today?” | The assistant reads your reading plan and tells you the next reading. |
| “Save a note on John 3:16–18 with what we just discussed, tagged john.” | A new note, with John 3:16–18 printed in a Scripture block, your points as formatted text, and the tag john. |
| “Start a collection called Grace with Ephesians 2:8–9 and Titus 2:11–14.” | A Grace collection holding both passages. |
| “Add Psalm 119:105 to my memory deck.” | A new card for Psalm 119:105, ready to review in Memorize. |
| “Lay out Mark over 16 days, starting Monday.” | A reading plan with one chapter of Mark a day. |
| “I finished Romans today. Log it.” | Romans added to your reading log with today’s date. |
| “What have I written about grace?” | The assistant searches your notes, collections, and cards and quotes what it finds. |
Everything the assistant makes appears in the app straight away, so you can open the note, review the card, or tick the reading yourself. The assistant’s own answers are its own, so read every passage in its context and check what it says against the text.
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Connect ChatGPT or Claude in three steps
- Copy the address. In Scripture Deck, open Settings, go to Connected apps, and choose Copy address. The address is
https://app.scripturedeck.com/api/mcp. - Add it in your assistant.
- ChatGPT: In Settings, turn on Developer mode (under Apps, in Advanced settings). Then create an app: name it Scripture Deck, paste the address, and keep authentication on OAuth.
- Claude: Open Customize, then Connectors, choose Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Scripture Deck, paste the address, and continue.
- Sign in and allow. The assistant opens Scripture Deck in your browser. Sign in, check that the page names the app you are connecting, such as “ChatGPT wants to work in your study”, read the permissions it asks for, and choose Allow.
Then ask your first question. If the assistant answers without opening your study, name it in the request: “Using Scripture Deck, what is my reading today?” In Claude, you can turn a connector on or off for a conversation from the + button.
Adding your own connector depends on your plan with each service, and the menus can change. See OpenAI’s guide to developer mode in ChatGPT and Anthropic’s guide to custom connectors in Claude for the current steps. Claude Code connects with claude mcp add --transport http scripture-deck https://app.scripturedeck.com/api/mcp.
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What the assistant can read and change
What it can read
- your notes, as formatted text with their tags and Scripture blocks
- your collections, with their passages, connected notes, reference links, groups, and tags
- your memory decks and cards
- your reading plans, the chapters you have marked read, and your reading log
- any passage in your library, in any edition of the reader, including the Catholic editions and the Tagalog and Cebuano Bibles
- Search, across your notes, collections, mind maps, memory cards, the Bible text, and the Greek and Hebrew word library
What it can change, if you allow it
- Notes: write a new note, add to one, rewrite it, or delete it
- Collections: create one, add or remove passages, connect a note, add reference links, and file collections in groups and tags
- Memorization: create a deck, change its daily limits, add cards for passages, or delete a card
- Reading: create or change a plan, tick off a reading, mark a chapter read, and log a book you finished
What it cannot do
It cannot change your email address, password, or other sign-in details, and it cannot share anything with a friend or anyone else. It does not review your memory cards for you, and it reads mind maps but does not edit them. It works only with your own study, never another member’s.
If you have turned a tool off under Settings → Study tools, the assistant is told that the tool is turned off, and nothing you made with it is deleted.
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Choose what an assistant may do
The sign-in page lists what the assistant is asking for. Read your study lets it read and look up. Change your study also lets it make and change study items. An assistant that asks only to read gets no way to make changes. Scripture Deck asks the assistant to check with you before it deletes anything, and some deletions cannot be undone, so read what it proposes before you agree.
Settings → Connected apps lists every assistant you have connected, what it can do, when you connected it, and when it was last used. Choose Disconnect, then confirm with the second button that names the app, to end a connection at once. Changing your password or choosing Sign out other devices disconnects every app, and a connection unused for 30 days ends by itself.
Scripture Deck does no AI work of its own and keeps none of your conversations. It answers the requests of the assistant you connected. What that assistant receives is covered by its own privacy terms, and disconnecting it does not delete what it already received, as Privacy explains.
Questions
ChatGPT and Claude Bible study questions
Is the connector free?
Yes. Scripture Deck, the connector, and every study tool it reaches are free, with no subscription or card. ChatGPT and Claude are separate services, and whether your plan with them lets you add a connector is up to OpenAI and Anthropic. If optional paid features are added to Scripture Deck later, the tools you use today will stay free.
Does Scripture Deck have AI built in?
No. The app itself writes nothing for you. The assistant you connect does the reading and writing, and Scripture Deck carries out its requests in your account through the same checks as the app’s own screens.
Can ChatGPT or Claude see my study without my permission?
No. An assistant reaches your study only after you sign in to Scripture Deck from it and choose Allow, and only with the permissions shown on that page. You can disconnect it at any time under Settings → Connected apps.
Which Bible translations can the assistant read?
Every edition in your Scripture Deck library: the 11 free English translations, including the World English Bible (Catholic) and the Douay-Rheims, plus Ang Salita ng Diyos in Tagalog and Ang Pulong sa Dios in Cebuano. See Compare translations for the list.
Can I use other assistants?
The connector is built for ChatGPT and Claude. It follows the open Model Context Protocol, with sign-in through OAuth, so another assistant that supports remote connectors that way may also work.