1. Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away.

2. As a nail sticketh fast between the joinings of the stones; so doth sin stick close between buying and selling.

3. Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord, his house shall soon be overthrown.

4. As when one sifteth with a sieve, the refuse remaineth; so the filth of man in his talk.

5. The furnace proveth the potter’s vessels; so the trial of man is in his reasoning.

6. The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

7. Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.

8. If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and put her on, as a glorious long robe.

9. The birds will resort unto their like; so will truth return unto them that practise in her.

10. As the lion lieth in wait for the prey; so sin for them that work iniquity.

11. The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.

12. If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be continually among men of understanding.

13. The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the wantonness of sin.

14. The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.

15. The strife of the proud is bloodshedding, and their revilings are grievous to the ear.

16. Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit; and shall never find friend to his mind.

17. Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him: but if thou betrayest his secrets, follow no more after him.

18. For as a man hath destroyed his enemy; so hast thou lost the love of thy neighbor.

19. As one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again

20. Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; he is as a roe escaped out of the snare.

21. As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets is without hope.

22. He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil: and he that knoweth him will depart from him.

23. When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander thy sayings.

24. I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord will hate him.

25. Whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head; and a deceitful stroke shall make wounds.

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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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