1. He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.

2. Lend to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due season.

3. Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him, and thou shalt always find the thing that is necessary for thee.

4. Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them.

5. Till he hath received, he will kiss a man’s hand; and for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

6. If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will count as if he had found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his money, and he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: he payeth him with cursings and railings; and for honour he will pay him disgrace.

7. Many therefore have refused to lend for other men’s ill dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

8. Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay not to shew him mercy.

9. Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

10. Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it not rust under a stone to be lost.

11. Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

12. Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee from all affliction.

13. It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

14. An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

15. Forget not the friendship of thy surety, for he hath given his life for thee.

16. A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety:

17. And he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him in danger that delivered him.

18. Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave of the sea: mighty men hath it driven from their houses, so that they wandered among strange nations.

19. A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other men’s business for gain shall fall into suits.

20. Help thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that thou thyself fall not into the same.

21. The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing, and an house to cover shame.

22. Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.

23. Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house.

24. For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.

25. Thou shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover thou shalt hear bitter words:

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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.

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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.

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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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