1. Do no evil, so shall no harm come unto thee.

2. Depart from the unjust, and iniquity shall turn away from thee.

3. My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.

4. Seek not of the Lord preeminence, neither of the king the seat of honour.

5. justify not thyself before the Lord; and boast not of thy wisdom before the king.

6. Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.

7. Offend not against the multitude of a city, and then thou shalt not cast thyself down among the people.

8. Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

9. Say not, God will look upon the multitude of my oblations, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept it.

10. Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.

11. Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one which humbleth and exalteth.

12. Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to thy friend.

13. Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

14. Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

15. Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most High hath ordained.

16. Number not thyself among the multitude of sinners, but remember that wrath will not tarry long.

17. Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.

18. Change not a friend for any good by no means; neither a faithful brother for the gold of Ophir.

19. Forego not a wise and good woman: for her grace is above gold.

20. Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil, nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.

21. Let thy soul love a good servant, and defraud him not of liberty.

22. Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.

23. Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their youth.

24. Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them.

25. Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

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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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