Paragraphs

Get a paragraph by reference

Changed on Oct 24, 2026

Look up a paragraph using any of three ID formats:

globalId: "1:2.0.1" (partId:paperId.sectionId.paragraphId)
standardReferenceId: "2:0.1" (paperId:sectionId.paragraphId)
paperSectionParagraphId: "2.0.1" (paperId.sectionId.paragraphId)

The format is auto-detected from the reference string.

Response includes a navigation envelope with the previous and next paragraph refs (within the same paper, ordered by sortId). Refs are null at paper boundaries.

Use ?include=entities to include typed entity mentions in the response.

get/paragraphs/{ref}

Request

Base URL: https://api.urantia.dev
URL: https://api.urantia.dev/paragraphs/{ref}
Auth: none required

Path parameters

refstring required

Query parameters

includestring

format'default' | 'rag'

lang'eng' | 'es' | 'fr' | 'pt' | 'de' | 'ko'

Language for translated fields. es gives Spanish text for all 197 papers: a machine translation, released as CC0, with a translation label on each paragraph. Paper, section, and part titles are in Spanish too, and so are the included Papers parallels and entity names; the Bible and the other works, and the topic labels, stay in English. Entity names exist in es, fr, pt, de, and ko. Each paragraph has a language field that states the language of its text.

Response

The paragraph

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "bibleParallels": [
      {
        "url": "https://ebible.org/eng-web/JHN17.htm#V1"
      }
    ],
    "scriptureParallels": [
      {
        "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sikh_Religion/Volume_1/Japji#:~:text=Make%20contentment%20and%20modesty%20thine"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

Oct 24, 2026cf0765043a4e Revision changes
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  added the optional property / to the response with the status
Oct 19, 2026a7d08cd0de9f Revision changes
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  media type application/json was changed to a more specific media type application/problem+json for the response status
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  media type application/json was changed to a more specific media type application/problem+json for the response status
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  media type application/json was changed to a more specific media type application/problem+json for the response status
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  added the non-success response with the status
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  added the optional property / to the response with the status
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  added the optional property / to the response with the status
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  added the required property /// to the response with the status

Operation history