My Bible

Your own customizable markdown bible for your personal vault!

• Read the Bible from within your Obsidian vault!
• Automatically setup a folder structure for your Bible, which populates with verses as you read it!
• Customize the whole layout to your liking! Folders, names, verses, links, all at your disposal!
• Access different Bible translations from the server, or download them to your local device!
• Link to any verse from your notes! Ex: [[Genesis 1#1]]
• Switch to any translation you like without duplicate Bibles or breaking links!
• See how the Bible connects to your thoughts in the Graph View!

Something missing, or needs improvement? Submit your own ideas here!

Inspiration

I was inspired by Obsidian user Joschua's idea of linking all our notes with scripture. He did this by including a copy of the Bible in his vault, with every chapter as one note and each verse as a header within it. I followed his instructions for doing this, and got the Bible in my own vault too, and it's great having the Bible to link to in my vault. I get to see visually how the Bible connects to my studies, my dreams, and more! However, the process was technical, and I don't think I could convince any non-programmer to do this for their own vault. I wanted to change that, so I made My Bible to streamline the process to just a few simple steps, without ever leaving Obsidian.

How it works

My Bible sets up a folder structure and populates it with one note per chapter. The chapters don't contain the text of the Bible; the text is inserted as you read it, allowing you to have any translation you want, represented by the same file/chapter/note. Because of this, you can easily and quickly switch translations without affecting the links to your Bible!

Notice

This plugin makes requests to https://bolls.life/api/ to download text and meta-data regarding translations, books, and chapters of the Bible. The plugin does not, itself, contain translations.

Getting started

1. Download the plugin from the Community Plugins list in the Obsidian settings.
2. Activate My Bible in the Community Plugins tab in Settings.
3. Press ctrl+p to open the command list, then search for and select the command Build Bible.
4. Configure build settings to your liking, then press Build.
5. Wait while your Bible is built, then start linking your notes to it!

Commands

• Build Bible - Builds the file structure for the Bible within your vault.
• Change translation - Opens a search menu for choosing a new translation for dynamic verses to display.
• Download translation - Opens a search menu of translations you can download. Downloaded translations are used only by dynamic verses for access to the Bible while offline.
• Clear local files - Removes all local bible files, including downloaded translations.

Community

Commune with other note-takers of the faith at the My Bible Discord server.

Troubleshooting

If you have issues with the plugin please report them here.

Adding translations

I do not directly control which translations are available, because My Bible relies on the Bolls Life API for its translations. However, you can reach the maintainer of Bolls Life here.

Support

If you want to support my work, buy me a coffee! If you want to follow development of My Bible, follow me on X/Twitter.

Enjoy My Bible! God bless!