1. My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation.

2. Set thy heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not haste in time of trouble.

3. Cleave unto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.

4. Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate.

5. For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

6. Believe in him, and he will help thee; order thy way aright, and trust in him.

7. Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest ye fall.

8. Ye that fear the Lord, believe him; and your reward shall not fail.

9. Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.

10. Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?

11. For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.

12. Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!

13. Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

14. Woe unto you that have lost patience! and what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you?

15. They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.

16. They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing unto him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.

17. They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,

18. Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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