1. Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye may be safe.

2. For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.

3. Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

4. And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up treasure.

5. Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

6. He that honoureth his father shall have a long life; and he that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother.

7. He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do service unto his parents, as to his masters.

8. Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them.

9. For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.

10. Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father’s dishonour is no glory unto thee.

11. For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.

12. My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth.

13. And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.

14. For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

15. In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembered; thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather.

16. He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

17. My son, go on with thy business in meekness; so shalt thou be beloved of him that is approved.

18. The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt find favour before the Lord.

19. Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

20. For the power of the Lord is great, and he is honoured of the lowly.

21. Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

22. But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence, for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret.

23. Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

24. For many are deceived by their own vain opinion; and an evil suspicion hath overthrown their judgment.

25. Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

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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.

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