> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://urantia.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get UB Paragraphs for a Bible Verse

> Returns the top 10 Urantia paragraphs whose embeddings are nearest to the Bible chunk containing this verse — the reverse of `?include=bibleParallels` on the UB side. Pre-computed at seed time using `text-embedding-3-large` (3072-d) cosine similarity across the entire UB corpus. Each result includes a similarity score (0..1) and rank (1..10).

**These are *semantic* parallels, not curated.** Some matches will be subtly wrong — the embedding model treats surface-level vocabulary as meaning, but the UB uses standard religious terms in nonstandard ways. Treat results as starting points for further reading, not as authoritative parallels.



## OpenAPI

````yaml GET /bible/{bookCode}/{chapter}/{verse}/urantia-parallels
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Urantia Papers API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    A developer and AI-agent friendly API for the Urantia Papers. Provides
    full-text search, structured content access, and audio URLs for all 17,000+
    paragraphs across 197 papers.
servers:
  - url: https://api.urantia.dev
    description: Production
  - url: http://localhost:3000
    description: Local development
security: []
paths:
  /bible/{bookCode}/{chapter}/{verse}/urantia-parallels:
    get:
      tags:
        - Bible
      summary: Top-10 Urantia paragraphs for a Bible verse
      description: >-
        Returns the top 10 Urantia paragraphs whose embeddings are nearest to
        the Bible chunk containing this verse — the reverse of
        `?include=bibleParallels` on the UB side. Pre-computed at seed time
        using `text-embedding-3-large` (3072-d) cosine similarity across the
        entire UB corpus. Each result includes a similarity score (0..1) and
        rank (1..10).


        **These are *semantic* parallels, not curated.** Some matches will be
        subtly wrong — the embedding model treats surface-level vocabulary as
        meaning, but the UB uses standard religious terms in nonstandard ways.
        Treat results as starting points for further reading, not as
        authoritative parallels.
      operationId: getBibleVerseUrantiaParallels
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            minLength: 1
          required: true
          name: bookCode
          in: path
        - schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 1
          required: true
          name: chapter
          in: path
        - schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 1
          required: true
          name: verse
          in: path
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Bible verse with top-10 UB paragraphs
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      verse:
                        type: object
                        properties:
                          id:
                            type: string
                          reference:
                            type: string
                          bookCode:
                            type: string
                          bookName:
                            type: string
                          bookOrder:
                            type: integer
                          canon:
                            type: string
                            enum:
                              - ot
                              - deuterocanon
                              - nt
                          chapter:
                            type: integer
                          verse:
                            type: integer
                          text:
                            type: string
                          translation:
                            type: string
                        required:
                          - id
                          - reference
                          - bookCode
                          - bookName
                          - bookOrder
                          - canon
                          - chapter
                          - verse
                          - text
                          - translation
                      chunk:
                        type: object
                        properties:
                          id:
                            type: string
                          reference:
                            type: string
                          verseStart:
                            type: integer
                          verseEnd:
                            type: integer
                          text:
                            type: string
                        required:
                          - id
                          - reference
                          - verseStart
                          - verseEnd
                          - text
                      urantiaParallels:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            id:
                              type: string
                            standardReferenceId:
                              type: string
                            paperId:
                              type: string
                            paperTitle:
                              type: string
                            sectionTitle:
                              type: string
                              nullable: true
                            text:
                              type: string
                            similarity:
                              type: number
                            rank:
                              type: integer
                            source:
                              type: string
                            embeddingModel:
                              type: string
                          required:
                            - id
                            - standardReferenceId
                            - paperId
                            - paperTitle
                            - sectionTitle
                            - text
                            - similarity
                            - rank
                            - source
                            - embeddingModel
                    required:
                      - verse
                      - chunk
                      - urantiaParallels
                required:
                  - data
        '404':
          description: Verse not found or no parallels computed
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  detail:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                  - detail
        '500':
          description: Internal server error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  detail:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                  - detail

````