1. He that revengeth shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.

2. Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee, so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.

3. One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek pardon from the Lord?

4. He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

5. If he that is but flesh nourish hatred, who will entreat for pardon of his sins?

6. Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

7. Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.

8. Abstain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins: for a furious man will kindle strife,

9. A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among them that be at peace.

10. As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man’s strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his anger riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed.

11. An hasty contention kindleth a fire: and an hasty fighting sheddeth blood.

12. If thou blow the spark, it shall burn: if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: and both these come out of thy mouth.

13. Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have destroyed many that were at peace.

14. A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.

15. A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.

16. Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, and never dwell quietly.

17. The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

18. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

19. Well is he that is defended through the venom thereof; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor hath been bound in her bands.

20. For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof are bands of brass.

21. The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better than it.

22. It shall not have rule over them that fear God, neither shall they be burned with the flame thereof.

23. Such as forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall burn in them, and not be quenched; it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and devour them as a leopard.

24. Look that thou hedge thy possession about with thorns, and bind up thy silver and gold,

25. And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.

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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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