What sacred texts are included in Scripture?

Scripture includes sixteen works: the King James Version Old and New Testaments, KJV Apocrypha, Quran (Pickthall translation), Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, the Four Books of Confucianism (Legge), Tao Te Ching (Legge), Kojiki (Chamberlain), Bundahishn (West), Lotus Sutra (Kern), Arda Viraf (Haug and West), Book of Poetry (Legge), Kalevala (Crawford), and the Poetic Edda (Bellows).

What is the concordance feature?

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index across all sixteen works. Click an indexed word in the reading pane to see linked records, or open the full concordance overlay. A separate TF-IDF index powers the Related Passages section.

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Click any verse number to add a personal note or bookmark. Notes are stored locally in your browser using localStorage and can be exported as JSON for backup. Notes support markdown formatting.

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Does Scripture work on mobile devices?

Yes. Scripture is fully responsive with a mobile-optimized reading pane, touch-friendly verse selection, and adaptive navigation controls.

Quran 29 | Quran

1. Alif. Lam. Mim.

2. Do men imagine that they will be left at ease because they say, We believe, and will not be tested with affliction?

3. Lo! We tested those who were before you. Thus God knoweth those who are sincere, and knoweth those who feign.

4. Or do those who do ill-deeds imagine that they can outstrip Us? Evil for them is that which they decide.

5. Whoso looketh forward to the meeting with God let him know that God's reckoning is surely nigh, and He is the Hearer, the Knower.

6. And whosoever striveth, striveth only for himself, for lo! God is altogether Independent of His creatures.

7. And as for those who believe and do good works, We shall remit from them their evil deeds and shall repay them the best that they did.

8. We have enjoined on man kindness to parents; but if they strive to make thee join with Me that of which thou hast no knowledge, then obey them not. Unto Me is your return and I shall tell you what ye used to do.

9. And as for those who believe and do good works, We verily shall make them enter in among the righteous.

10. Of mankind is he who saith: We believe in God, but, if he be made to suffer for the sake of God, he mistaketh the persecution of mankind for God's punishment; and then, if victory cometh from thy Lord, will say: Lo! we were with you all the while. Is not God Best Aware of what is in the bosoms of His creatures?

11. Verily God knoweth those who believe, and verily He knoweth the hypocrites.

12. Those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: Follow our way of religion and we verily will bear your sins for you. They cannot bear aught of their sins. Lo! they verily are liars.

13. But they verily will bear their own loads and other loads beside their own, and they verily will be questioned on the Day of Resurrection concerning that which they invented.

14. And verily we sent Noah as Our messenger unto his folk, and he continued with them for a thousand years save fifty years; and the flood engulfed them, for they were wrong-doers.

15. And We rescued him and those with him in the ship, and made of it a portent for the peoples.

16. And Abraham! Remember when he said unto his folk: Serve God, and keep your duty unto Him; that is better for you if ye did but know.

17. Ye serve instead of God only idols, and ye only invent a lie. Lo! those whom ye serve instead of God own no provision for you. So seek your provision from God, and serve Him, and give thanks unto Him, for unto Him ye will be brought back.

18. But if ye deny, then nations have denied before you. The messenger is only to convey the message plainly.

19. See they not how God produceth creation, then reproduceth it? Lo! for God that is easy.

20. Say O Mohammed: Travel in the land and see how He originated creation, then God bringeth forth the later growth. Lo! God is Able to do all things.

21. He punisheth whom He will and showeth mercy unto whom He will, and unto Him ye will be turned.

22. Ye cannot escape from Him in the earth or in the sky, and beside God there is for you no friend or helper.

23. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of God and in their Meeting with Him, such have no hope of My mercy. For such there is a painful doom.

24. But the answer of his folk was only that they said: "Kill him" or "Burn him." Then God saved him from the Fire. Lo! herein verily are portents for folk who believe.

25. He said: Ye have chosen only idols instead of God. The love between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection ye will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and ye will have no helpers.

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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.

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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