[
 {
  "slug": "love",
  "title": "Love",
  "summary": "From agape to maitri to hesed — the call to unconditional care for the other runs through every tradition.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "...thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-019-maryam",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 96
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 13
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "justice",
  "title": "Justice",
  "summary": "The call to order rightly what power has bent — a thread that runs from the prophets to the caliphs to the Mahabharata.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "amos",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 23
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-005-al-ma-idah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 8
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-004-an-nisa",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 135
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 47
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "mercy",
  "title": "Mercy",
  "summary": "The stepping-back from strict justice; the compassion that each tradition places at the centre of the divine character.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 36,
    "quote": "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 34,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "...The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-001-al-fatihah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 129
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 66
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "creation-theme",
  "title": "Creation",
  "summary": "How each tradition narrates the beginning — from the six days of Genesis to the breathless One of the Rigveda to the nameless Tao.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-041-fussilat",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 9
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 117
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "vedas",
    "book": "rigveda-selections",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "afterlife",
  "title": "The Afterlife",
  "summary": "Resurrection, heaven and hell, the wheel of samsara, the bodhisattva's return — visions of what lies beyond the body.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "...some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "...in Christ shall all be made alive."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-075-al-qiyamah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 20
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 204
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "prayer",
  "title": "Prayer",
  "summary": "The practice of speech toward the divine — petition, adoration, silence.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-thessalonians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Pray without ceasing."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 51,
    "verse": 10
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-001-al-fatihah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "wisdom",
  "title": "Wisdom",
  "summary": "Not information but discernment — the fear of the Lord, the middle way, the knowledge that conquers the self.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 103
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 33,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "He who knows himself is intelligent."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 7
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "suffering",
  "title": "Suffering",
  "summary": "The problem of pain. Where Buddhism begins (the First Noble Truth), Job wrestles, Paul reframes, and the Gita redirects.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 18
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 21
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 278
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 20
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-self",
  "title": "The Self",
  "summary": "Whether to die to it, transcend it, realise its non-existence, or love God and neighbour as oneself — every tradition has a verdict on the self.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 279,
    "quote": "All forms are unreal..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Let a man lift himself by his Self alone..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 33,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "pilgrimage",
  "title": "Pilgrimage",
  "summary": "Going somewhere, on foot, because of God. The Hajj, ritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the four dhams, the Bodhi trail.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 122,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 13
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-003-ali-imran",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 97
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-022-al-hajj",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 27
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "repentance",
  "title": "Repentance",
  "summary": "Turning away from sin and returning to God is central to spiritual renewal. This theme highlights the call to change one's heart and actions.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "joel",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 13
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "acts",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 19
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-chronicles",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 14
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 3
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "forgiveness",
  "title": "Forgiveness",
  "summary": "God offers mercy to those who seek it, and believers are called to extend that same grace. It restores broken relationships and brings peace.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 32
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 13
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 9
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 14
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "idolatry",
  "title": "Idolatry",
  "summary": "Placing anything above God in one's life leads to spiritual emptiness and separation. The scriptures warn against worshipping created things rather than the Creator.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 3
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 21
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 5
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 44,
    "verse": 9
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-spirit",
  "title": "The Spirit",
  "summary": "The Holy Spirit guides, empowers, and comforts believers in their daily walk. This presence marks the new covenant relationship with God.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 26
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "acts",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 8
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 14
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 22
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "blood-and-sacrifice",
  "title": "Blood and Sacrifice",
  "summary": "Atonement for sin requires a life given in place of another, pointing ultimately to Christ. Old covenant rituals foreshadowed this ultimate payment.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 11
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 22
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 7
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 19
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "bread-and-feasting",
  "title": "Bread and Feasting",
  "summary": "Food often symbolizes provision, communion, and celebration in the biblical narrative. Jesus identifies himself as the bread of life for eternal sustenance.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 35
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 4
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 26
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 5
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "light-and-darkness",
  "title": "Light and Darkness",
  "summary": "Spiritual truth and righteousness are contrasted with ignorance and sin throughout scripture. Believers are called to walk in the light as children of God.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 8
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "water",
  "title": "Water",
  "summary": "Water represents cleansing, life, and the Holy Spirit's refreshing work. It is used in baptism to signify death to sin and new life.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 14
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ezekiel",
    "chapter": 36,
    "verse": 25
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 38
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "titus",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 5
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-shepherd",
  "title": "The Shepherd",
  "summary": "God is depicted as a caretaker who leads, protects, and provides for his people. Jesus claims this role to describe his relationship with his followers.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 11
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ezekiel",
    "chapter": 34,
    "verse": 11
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 20
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "exile-and-return",
  "title": "Exile and Return",
  "summary": "The cycle of leaving the promised land and returning reflects spiritual wandering and restoration. It teaches lessons about discipline and God's faithfulness.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-kings",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 21
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ezra",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 29,
    "verse": 10
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 43,
    "verse": 19
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "humility",
  "title": "Humility",
  "summary": "Bowing low — the spiritual posture that every tradition treats as the door, not the threshold. From Moses 'meek above all men' to the Tao that humbles itself by being below.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "numbers",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-031-luqman",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And do not turn your cheek [in contempt] toward people and do not walk through the earth exultantly..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 63,
    "quote": "The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "friendship",
  "title": "Friendship",
  "summary": "The love that is chosen — the bond that the Analects place above blood, the gospel above life itself, and the Proverbs above brotherhood.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "confucianism",
    "corpus": "analects",
    "book": "analects",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 204,
    "quote": "...trust is the best of relationships; Nirvana the highest happiness."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "hospitality",
  "title": "The Stranger",
  "summary": "Welcoming the unknown traveller — every tradition makes the visitor a sacrament, the door wider than the household.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 34,
    "quote": "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 35,
    "quote": "...I was a stranger, and ye took me in..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-076-al-insan",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "stillness",
  "title": "Silence and Stillness",
  "summary": "The still small voice — every tradition keeps a chamber of quiet at the centre of speech. The God who speaks in whispers, the Tao that knows the world without going out.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "...and after the fire a still small voice."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 46,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Be still, and know that I am God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 47,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-073-al-muzzammil",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with [complete] devotion."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "joy",
  "title": "Joy",
  "summary": "Gladness as discipline, not happenstance — the rejoicing the Psalmist commands, the Apostle commands, and the Buddha grounds in the dhamma itself.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 30,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "nehemiah",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "...for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 197,
    "quote": "Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us!"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-094-ash-sharh",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "work",
  "title": "Work",
  "summary": "Labour as covenant: a calling, not a curse. Every tradition treats the doing of a task as a kind of prayer — Genesis tilling, Krishna karma yoga, Paul tentmaking.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-thessalonians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "...if any would not work, neither should he eat."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "Therefore, without attachment, perform always the work that has to be done..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-053-an-najm",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 39,
    "quote": "And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "gratitude",
  "title": "Gratitude",
  "summary": "Thanksgiving as command, not mood — every tradition knows the door of the sanctuary opens inward only on hinges of gratitude.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 100,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 107,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-thessalonians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-014-ibrahim",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]...'"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-heart",
  "title": "The Heart",
  "summary": "The hidden chamber where the real worship happens — every tradition watches the heart more closely than the hands.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 33,
    "verse": 1
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "patience",
  "title": "Patience",
  "summary": "The slow virtue — the one every tradition treats as the proof that the soul has anchored, not merely settled.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 37,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "...we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 153,
    "quote": "O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 63,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "faith",
  "title": "Faith",
  "summary": "Trust as substance — the faculty that the Letter to the Hebrews names the evidence of things unseen, and that every tradition makes the seed of every virtue.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "habakkuk",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...but the just shall live by his faith."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 285,
    "quote": "The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so have] the believers..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "fear-of-god",
  "title": "The Fear of the Lord",
  "summary": "The 'beginning of wisdom' that every tradition distinguishes from terror — the awe of the small soul before the unbearable nearness of the Holy.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "...Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 111,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-fool",
  "title": "The Fool",
  "summary": "The figure who rejects wisdom out of pride and pays the price — every tradition treats him not as comic relief but as cautionary tale.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 63,
    "quote": "The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "truth",
  "title": "Truth",
  "summary": "The reality that does not change — every tradition sets it as the criterion against which speech, conduct, and worship are tested.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 51,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 32,
    "quote": "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 42,
    "quote": "And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know [it]."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "wealth",
  "title": "Wealth",
  "summary": "Mammon and the soul — every tradition warns that the man who serves the purse cannot also serve God, and gives almsgiving as the cure.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "...Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-timothy",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "For the love of money is the root of all evil..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 81,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "time",
  "title": "Time",
  "summary": "The mortal clock that every tradition reads against an eternal one — Ecclesiastes' seasons, the Qur'an's swearing by the afternoon, Krishna who is Time grown great.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 90,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-peter",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-103-al-asr",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "By time, indeed, mankind is in loss..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 32,
    "quote": "I am Time grown old, creating world destruction, set in motion to annihilate the worlds..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-name",
  "title": "The Name",
  "summary": "Naming as a sacred act — the Tetragrammaton, the ninety-nine names of Allah, the syllable OM, the Tao that cannot be named. Every tradition makes the Name the place where speech meets the unspeakable.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-007-al-a-raf",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 180,
    "quote": "And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "anger",
  "title": "Anger",
  "summary": "The fire that purifies and the fire that consumes — every tradition warns the wrath of God against the wrath of man, and every tradition makes the slow heart its student.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "...let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-003-ali-imran",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 134,
    "quote": "Who spend [in the cause of Allah] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "pride",
  "title": "Pride",
  "summary": "The first sin of the angels and the last sin of the saints — the inflation of self that every tradition treats as the secret root of every other vice.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "...God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-031-luqman",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And do not turn your cheek [in contempt] toward people and do not walk through the earth exultantly. Indeed, Allah does not like everyone self-deluded and boastful."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "doubt",
  "title": "Doubt",
  "summary": "The mind that hesitates between two opinions — every tradition treats it not as enemy of faith but as its proving ground.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 31,
    "quote": "And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "...Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "greed",
  "title": "Greed",
  "summary": "The mouth that cannot be filled — every tradition treats covetousness as a quiet idolatry, a worship that mistakes the gift for the giver.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 28,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "envy",
  "title": "Envy",
  "summary": "The grief at another's good — the green sin that bites the believer worse than the unbeliever, because faith should drown it.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 30,
    "quote": "A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-113-al-falaq",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "And from the evil of an envier when he envies."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "compassion",
  "title": "Compassion",
  "summary": "The heart turned outward — distinct from mercy (which descends from God) as the soul's answer that ascends back, made for the suffering of strangers.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 145,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "zechariah",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 33,
    "quote": "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-001-al-fatihah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "death",
  "title": "Death",
  "summary": "The doorway every tradition stands at without averting its eyes — Ecclesiastes' dust to dust, Paul's sting that has been swallowed, the Buddha's first noble truth.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 55,
    "quote": "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-003-ali-imran",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 185,
    "quote": "Every soul will taste death. And you will only be given your [full] compensation on the Day of Resurrection..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 277,
    "quote": "'All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-poor",
  "title": "The Poor",
  "summary": "Not the powerful — the powerless. Every tradition treats the destitute not as project but as presence, the litmus test of every other claim to righteousness.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 40,
    "quote": "...Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "...Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-076-al-insan",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-107-al-ma-un",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And does not encourage the feeding of the poor."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-orphan-and-widow",
  "title": "The Orphan and the Widow",
  "summary": "The legal-religious test of every just society — every code makes specific protections for those left without male guardian, and every scripture writes them onto the conscience.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-093-ad-duhaa",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "So as for the orphan, do not oppress [him]."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 220,
    "quote": "...And they ask you about orphans. Say, 'Improvement for them is best...'"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "dreams-and-visions",
  "title": "Dreams and Visions",
  "summary": "When God speaks past the daylight mind — every tradition keeps the door of sleep half-ajar, expecting the divine to walk through it.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 28,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "joel",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "...your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "acts",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "...your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-012-yusuf",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "[Of these stories mention] when Joseph said to his father, 'O my father, indeed I have seen [in a dream] eleven stars and the sun and the moon; I saw them prostrating to me.'"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-call",
  "title": "The Call",
  "summary": "The divine summons — every tradition turns on the moment a voice names a name and a life turns. Abram. Moses. Mary. Muhammad. Siddhartha.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-096-al-alaq",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Read in the name of your Lord who created"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "rebellion",
  "title": "Rebellion",
  "summary": "The first sin of the spirit, the recurring sin of the people — every tradition tells of the proud refusal that sets the soul against its source.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "numbers",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "...I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 34,
    "quote": "And [mention] when We said to the angels, 'Prostrate before Adam'; so they prostrated, except for Iblees..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "destiny-and-providence",
  "title": "Destiny and Providence",
  "summary": "What the great hand has written — every tradition asks how the soul's freedom and the divine decree fit together, and gives no easy answer.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 139,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "...being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-057-al-hadid",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "No disaster strikes upon the earth or among yourselves except that it is in a register before We bring it into being..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 66,
    "quote": "Abandon all dharmas; take refuge in Me alone. I will deliver thee from all sins; do not grieve."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "remembrance",
  "title": "Remembrance",
  "summary": "Memory as worship — every tradition makes the past sacred by retelling it: the Sabbath, the Eucharist, the dhikr, the Vedic rishi reciting fire.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "...this is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "...this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 152,
    "quote": "So remember Me; I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not deny Me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-013-ar-ra-d",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "wine",
  "title": "Wine",
  "summary": "The grape that gladdens the heart and the cup that overthrows — every tradition treats wine as both gift and danger.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 104,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "And wine that maketh glad the heart of man..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "...thou hast kept the good wine until now."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-005-al-ma-idah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 90,
    "quote": "O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "freedom",
  "title": "Freedom",
  "summary": "The exodus from every Egypt — every tradition treats liberation as spiritual, not merely political.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 61,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 32,
    "quote": "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 372,
    "quote": "Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge: he who has knowledge and meditation is near unto Nirvana."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 47,
    "quote": "Let right deeds be thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action!"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-yoke",
  "title": "The Yoke",
  "summary": "The discipline that binds the neck — every tradition gives a yoke that is, paradoxically, the way of rest.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "...Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 29,
    "quote": "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 30,
    "quote": "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 48,
    "quote": "Equal-minded in success and failure: such equal-mindedness is yoga."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "vanity-emptiness",
  "title": "Vanity",
  "summary": "All is vapour — Ecclesiastes' verdict that the Buddha echoes from a different valley: clinging to the impermanent is the trap.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 39,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "...verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 31,
    "quote": "...for the fashion of this world passeth away."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "...For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 277,
    "quote": "'All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 278,
    "quote": "'All created things are grief and pain,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "purity",
  "title": "Purity",
  "summary": "Clean of body, clean of heart — every tradition sets a threshold for the holy and gives a discipline for crossing it.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 51,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-005-al-ma-idah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 277,
    "quote": "'All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "knowledge",
  "title": "Knowledge",
  "summary": "Distinct from wisdom: the act of knowing rather than the disposition of the wise — and every tradition warns that some kinds of knowing destroy.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-039-az-zumar",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...Are those who know equal to those who do not know? Only they will remember [who are] people of understanding."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-058-al-mujadila",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "...Allah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-mountain",
  "title": "The Mountain",
  "summary": "The high place where the air thins and the soul meets the Holy — Sinai, Olives, Hira, Meru, Tabor.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 121,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-096-al-alaq",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Read in the name of your Lord who created"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-052-at-tur",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "By the mount"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-king",
  "title": "The King",
  "summary": "Who rules, and rightly — every tradition tests the throne against the prophet, the conscience, and the Holy.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "...for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 36,
    "quote": "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-timothy",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "...the King of kings, and Lord of lords;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-067-al-mulk",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "flesh-and-spirit",
  "title": "Flesh and Spirit",
  "summary": "Two natures in one creature — every tradition makes the body's appetites the testing-ground of the inner life.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 41,
    "quote": "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 31,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Let a man raise himself by his Self; let him not lower himself; for the Self is the friend of the self, and the Self is also the enemy of the self."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-sword",
  "title": "The Sword",
  "summary": "The blade that divides truth from falsehood, friend from foe — every tradition turns the sword inward as much as outward.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 149,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 34,
    "quote": "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "glory",
  "title": "Glory",
  "summary": "Kavod, doxa, dakhsha — the heavy weight of presence that crowns the Holy and the saint.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 33,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "...Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-corinthians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "...we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-024-an-nur",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 35,
    "quote": "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "shame",
  "title": "Shame",
  "summary": "The downcast face — every tradition treats shame as both wound and beginning, the soul's first honest accounting.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "...Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "...that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-007-al-a-raf",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "...And when they tasted of the tree, their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-eye",
  "title": "The Eye",
  "summary": "The window of the soul — every tradition watches the watcher, treating the eye as both organ of judgment and tutor of desire.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-john",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-024-an-nur",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 30,
    "quote": "Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their private parts..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "thirst",
  "title": "Thirst",
  "summary": "The body's craving as figure of the soul's longing — and, in Buddhism, as the very root of suffering.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 63,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 55,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 184,
    "quote": "...patience is the highest penance, longsuffering is the highest Nirvana..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-mind",
  "title": "The Mind",
  "summary": "Distinct from the heart: the calculating, attending faculty — that which the Buddha treats as the master, and Paul as needing renewal.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest... think on these things."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "...But we have the mind of Christ."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "harvest",
  "title": "The Harvest",
  "summary": "The reaping at season's end — every tradition treats the gathered grain as figure of judgment, of mission, of the soul's gathered fruit.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "joel",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 126,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 37,
    "quote": "Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 39,
    "quote": "...the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "...for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-068-al-qalam",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "hope",
  "title": "Hope",
  "summary": "The forward-looking sister of faith — every tradition turns the eye to a future the soul cannot yet see.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-039-az-zumar",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 53,
    "quote": "...O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-wilderness",
  "title": "The Wilderness",
  "summary": "The empty place where the soul is stripped — every tradition sends its prophet, its messiah, its monk into the desert before the public word.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 40,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "mark",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-074-al-muddaththir",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "O you who covers himself [with a garment]"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-stone",
  "title": "The Stone",
  "summary": "Rock as foundation, as witness, as the thing the builders refused — every tradition makes stone the silent counsel against forgetfulness.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 28,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "joshua",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "...Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 118,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "desire",
  "title": "Desire",
  "summary": "The engine of the soul — every tradition treats craving as either the wound or the wing.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 37,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 183,
    "quote": "Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of (all) the Awakened."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 372,
    "quote": "Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge: he who has knowledge and meditation is near unto Nirvana."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 47,
    "quote": "Let right deeds be thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "temptation",
  "title": "Temptation",
  "summary": "The hour of testing — every tradition names a tempter and warns the soul to be ready before the seductive voice is heard.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 95,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-114-an-nas",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "From the evil of the retreating whisperer"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 223,
    "quote": "Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-cross",
  "title": "The Cross",
  "summary": "The instrument of execution made into the world's deepest mercy — central to Christianity, paralleled in every tradition's image of love that bears unjust pain.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "...If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 53,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "holiness",
  "title": "Holiness",
  "summary": "The set-apart-ness of God and the set-apart-ness God commands — every tradition treats the holy as the line that distinguishes worship from idolatry.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "...Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-059-al-hashr",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, the Sovereign, the Pure, the Perfection..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-temple",
  "title": "The Temple",
  "summary": "Stone, body, congregation — every tradition stretches the word 'temple' from a building to a community to a self.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "One thing have I desired of the LORD... that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "But he spake of the temple of his body."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-priest",
  "title": "The Priest",
  "summary": "The one who stands between — every tradition gives a class whose work it is to keep the threshold of the Holy.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "They shall be holy unto their God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-promise",
  "title": "The Promise",
  "summary": "What God has said, He will do — every tradition rests on the unbroken word that anchors the future.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "...and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "...Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-corinthians",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-039-az-zumar",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "But those who have feared their Lord - for them are chambers, above them chambers built high, beneath which rivers flow..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-child",
  "title": "The Child",
  "summary": "The little one who enters first — every tradition turns the great upside down when it makes the child the model of the saint.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb... and a little child shall lead them."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "...Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "...Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-night",
  "title": "The Night",
  "summary": "The watch when the soul wrestles — every tradition makes the dark hour the venue of revelation, fear, and decisive prayer.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 32,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 38,
    "quote": "Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-097-al-qadr",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Indeed, We sent the Qur'an down during the Night of Decree."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-073-al-muzzammil",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "Arise [to pray] the night, except for a little"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-day",
  "title": "The Day of the Lord",
  "summary": "The reckoning that breaks like dawn — every tradition warns and waits for the great day on which all things are weighed.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "amos",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "joel",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion... let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-thessalonians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-peter",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-099-az-zalzalah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "When the earth is shaken with its [final] earthquake"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-hand",
  "title": "The Hand",
  "summary": "God's outstretched arm — every tradition makes the hand of the Holy the figure of power that delivers and the gesture of mercy that draws near.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 139,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "...neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-005-al-ma-idah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 64,
    "quote": "...Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-feet",
  "title": "The Feet",
  "summary": "Beautiful are the feet that bring good tidings — every tradition treats the foot as the witness of the journey and the body's lowest worship.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 52,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 119,
    "verse": 105,
    "quote": "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 38,
    "quote": "And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "...How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "wonder",
  "title": "Wonder",
  "summary": "The catching of the breath before what cannot be made small — every tradition holds astonishment as the door of every other virtue.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 38,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "...and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "...Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "If there should rise suddenly within the skies sunburst of a thousand suns flooding earth with beams undeem'd-of, then might be that Holy One's majesty and radiance dreamed of."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-soul",
  "title": "The Soul",
  "summary": "The breath-life that makes the body more than dust — distinct from 'the self' as the immortal, the breathing-of-God in the creature.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-089-al-fajr",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "O reassured soul"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "hinduism",
    "corpus": "gita",
    "book": "bhagavad-gita",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "discipline",
  "title": "Discipline",
  "summary": "The Father chastens the son he loves — every tradition treats the painful refining of the soul as a sign of belonging, not abandonment.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "buddhism",
    "corpus": "dhammapada",
    "book": "dhammapada",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 184,
    "quote": "...patience is the highest penance, longsuffering is the highest Nirvana..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "healing",
  "title": "Healing",
  "summary": "Divine restoration — every tradition treats the broken body as the visible edge of the soul's repair.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "...for I am the LORD that healeth thee."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 103,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "...They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "mark",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 34,
    "quote": "And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "...pray one for another, that ye may be healed..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-026-ash-shu-ara",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 80,
    "quote": "And when I am ill, it is He who cures me"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-bird",
  "title": "Wings",
  "summary": "Bird, dove, eagle, hen — every tradition makes wings the figure of the divine that hovers, gathers, and bears the soul aloft.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 91,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 40,
    "verse": 31,
    "quote": "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 37,
    "quote": "...how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "...and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "silence",
  "title": "Silence",
  "summary": "The discipline of the tongue and the listening soul — every tradition treats silence as the venue of revelation and the seal of wisdom.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 46,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 63,
    "quote": "But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "...let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "taoism",
    "corpus": "tao",
    "book": "tao-te-ching",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "The sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-garden",
  "title": "The Garden",
  "summary": "Eden, Gethsemane, the gardens of paradise — every tradition holds the cultivated place as the figure of beginning, of decisive prayer, and of the final reward.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "song-of-solomon",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 58,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "...and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 41,
    "quote": "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens beneath which rivers flow..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-stranger",
  "title": "The Stranger",
  "summary": "The sojourner, the alien, the wayfarer — every tradition makes the soul's posture toward the unknown traveler the test of its own righteousness.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "leviticus",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 34,
    "quote": "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 35,
    "quote": "...I was a stranger, and ye took me in:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-tongue",
  "title": "The Tongue",
  "summary": "The small member that sets the course of the whole life — every tradition treats the tongue as the visible test of the heart.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 34,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 36,
    "quote": "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-mirror",
  "title": "The Mirror",
  "summary": "The face beheld in glass that one cannot afterward forget — every tradition uses the mirror to figure self-knowledge, partial vision, and the soul's true reflection.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-corinthians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 37,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-tree",
  "title": "The Tree",
  "summary": "The tree of life, the tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, the tree planted by water — every tradition makes the rooted, fruit-bearing tree the figure of the righteous soul and of cosmic order.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "service",
  "title": "Service",
  "summary": "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant — every tradition reverses the order of greatness and makes the servant the model of the saint.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 52,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "...but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "...by love serve one another."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "almsgiving",
  "title": "Almsgiving",
  "summary": "The hand that gives in secret — every tradition raises charity to the rank of worship and warns against the giver who advertises.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee... Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 58,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 38,
    "quote": "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 271,
    "quote": "If you disclose your charitable expenditures, they are good; but if you conceal them and give them to the poor, it is better for you..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "fasting",
  "title": "Fasting",
  "summary": "The voluntary hunger that empties the body so the soul may hear — every tradition makes the refused meal the venue of repentance, mourning, and revelation.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 58,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "joel",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "esther",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-002-al-baqarah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 183,
    "quote": "O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "blessing-and-curse",
  "title": "Blessing and Curse",
  "summary": "The double word that sets life and death before the soul — every tradition holds the pronouncement of blessing as creative and of curse as binding, both spoken by the same mouth.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 30,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "numbers",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-fire",
  "title": "The Fire",
  "summary": "Burning bush, refiner's flame, consuming holiness — every tradition makes fire the proximity of God and the test of the soul.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "...Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 29,
    "quote": "For our God is a consuming fire."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-024-an-nur",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 35,
    "quote": "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-cloud",
  "title": "The Cloud",
  "summary": "The veil of glory — every tradition makes the cloud the place where presence is hidden and revealed, where the voice speaks and the eye must drop.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "mark",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-007-al-a-raf",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 160,
    "quote": "And We divided them into twelve descendant tribes... And We shaded them with clouds..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-cup",
  "title": "The Cup",
  "summary": "Drink of mercy, drink of wrath — every tradition lifts the cup as the figure of what is given, what is endured, and what is shared.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "...thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 75,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 39,
    "quote": "...O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-witness",
  "title": "The Witness",
  "summary": "Testimony given before the heavens — every tradition calls the believer to bear witness, and names God himself as the unfailing witness over all.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 43,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-003-ali-imran",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "Allah witnesses that there is no deity except Him, and [so do] the angels and those of knowledge..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-key",
  "title": "The Key",
  "summary": "Authority to open and to shut — every tradition gives the key as the sign of stewardship, knowledge, and the gates of the kingdom.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 16,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 52,
    "quote": "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore... and have the keys of hell and of death."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "...These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-debt",
  "title": "The Debt",
  "summary": "What is owed and what is forgiven — every tradition treats moral debt as the language of the soul before God and the neighbor.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 41,
    "quote": "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-fountain",
  "title": "The Fountain",
  "summary": "The source that never fails — every tradition pictures the divine life as a spring from which all thirst may freely drink.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 36,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "...And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-108-al-kawthar",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Indeed, We have granted you, [O Muhammad], al-Kawthar."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-veil",
  "title": "The Veil",
  "summary": "What separates the holy from the common — every tradition treats the veil as both barrier and revelation, drawn open in the climactic moment.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 33,
    "quote": "...the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 51,
    "quote": "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "2-corinthians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-033-al-ahzab",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 53,
    "quote": "...And when you ask [his wives] for something, ask them from behind a partition. That is purer for your hearts and their hearts."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "lament",
  "title": "Lament",
  "summary": "The cry that does not turn from God even in dereliction — every tradition holds the lament as faithful speech under the weight of grief.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 137,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 41,
    "quote": "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 27,
    "verse": 46,
    "quote": "...My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-rock",
  "title": "The Rock",
  "summary": "Unshaken foundation — every tradition names the divine as the Rock under the feet of the faithful and the cleft in which the soul is hid.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 26,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "breath",
  "title": "Breath",
  "summary": "The breath that becomes life and the spirit that becomes prayer — every tradition figures the divine in the air the body cannot keep, and yet cannot live without.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ezekiel",
    "chapter": 37,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 150,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "acts",
    "chapter": 17,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "...he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "islam",
    "corpus": "quran",
    "book": "surah-015-al-hijr",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 29,
    "quote": "And when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-altar",
  "title": "The Altar",
  "summary": "The set-apart table where the world ends and the offering begins — every tradition orients its piety toward an altar, even when the altar is unseen.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 30,
    "quote": "And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 13,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-shadow",
  "title": "The Shadow",
  "summary": "Cover of the wing, shade in the desert, the brevity of every life — every tradition reads the shadow as both refuge and reminder of the body's passing.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 91,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 102,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "acts",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "...that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "james",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-banquet",
  "title": "The Banquet",
  "summary": "The set table that anticipates the kingdom — every tradition imagines the end as a feast, and rebukes the soul that comes uninvited or refuses the call.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 23,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-bridge",
  "title": "The Bridge",
  "summary": "The narrow span over the abyss — every tradition figures salvation as a crossing, and every tradition holds that some bridge has been built between man and what is beyond.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 35,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-timothy",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-dust",
  "title": "The Dust",
  "summary": "The body's ground and end — every tradition takes a handful of dust as the figure of human humility before the Holy and the dignity of being formed by hand.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "...for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 42,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 103,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 47,
    "quote": "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "...when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-storm",
  "title": "The Storm",
  "summary": "The whirlwind that the LORD answers from, the tempest that the disciples cry through — every tradition makes the storm the venue of address and of mastery.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 38,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "...and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 107,
    "verse": 29,
    "quote": "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jonah",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "...Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "mark",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 39,
    "quote": "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-vine",
  "title": "The Vine",
  "summary": "The cultivated stock that bears fruit only when grafted to the root — every tradition makes the vine the figure of the people of God and of the soul that abides in the Word.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 80,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 33,
    "quote": "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-dance",
  "title": "The Dance",
  "summary": "The body in praise — every tradition makes the dance a figure of unforced joy before the Holy, and rebukes the cold heart that despises it.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "2-samuel",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "And David danced before the LORD with all his might;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 30,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 149,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "...as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-road",
  "title": "The Road",
  "summary": "The way the soul must walk — every tradition figures the spiritual life as a road, and warns of every junction where the path divides.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 33,
    "quote": "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 30,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jeremiah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "...because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 32,
    "quote": "...Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-ear",
  "title": "The Ear",
  "summary": "He that hath an ear, let him hear — every tradition holds the ear as the first organ of faith and the first failure of the proud heart.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "deuteronomy",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 3,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 50,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "...he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 40,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 11,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-sea",
  "title": "The Sea",
  "summary": "The waters under the firmament — every tradition makes the sea the figure of the chaos that the Lord rebukes and the depth that the soul must cross.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 21,
    "quote": "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 93,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "jonah",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "...thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 25,
    "quote": "And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...and there was no more sea."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-stars",
  "title": "The Stars",
  "summary": "He telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names — every tradition reads the night sky as both a sign of the Maker's care and the figure of those who turn many to righteousness.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 5,
    "quote": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 147,
    "verse": 4,
    "quote": "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 3,
    "quote": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 38,
    "verse": 7,
    "quote": "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "...for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "...ye shine as lights in the world;"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-throne",
  "title": "The Throne",
  "summary": "The seat above the cherubim — every tradition figures the divine sovereignty as a throne, attended by the unceasing song of those who see and do not look away.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "...I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ezekiel",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "...the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 47,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 9,
    "quote": "...the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "...behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 16,
    "quote": "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy..."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-lamp",
  "title": "The Lamp",
  "summary": "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet — every tradition makes the small steady light the figure of the Word that does not fail in the long dark watch.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 119,
    "verse": 105,
    "quote": "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 18,
    "verse": 28,
    "quote": "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 25,
    "verse": 1,
    "quote": "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-mother",
  "title": "The Mother",
  "summary": "She that beareth, she that hath compassion — every tradition gives the mother a place of unique honor, and remembers the cries of her son before all other prayer.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 20,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "Honour thy father and thy mother..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 21,
    "verse": 17,
    "quote": "...the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 49,
    "verse": 15,
    "quote": "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 1,
    "verse": 46,
    "quote": "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 27,
    "quote": "Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "kindness",
  "title": "Kindness",
  "summary": "Chesed — the loyal lovingkindness that does not break — every tradition makes lovingkindness the unbreakable thread between the Holy and the holy life.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 117,
    "verse": 2,
    "quote": "For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 6,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "...what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ruth",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 12,
    "quote": "The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 31,
    "verse": 26,
    "quote": "...in her tongue is the law of kindness."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "ephesians",
    "chapter": 4,
    "verse": 32,
    "quote": "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "galatians",
    "chapter": 5,
    "verse": 22,
    "quote": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,"
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-knee",
  "title": "The Knee",
  "summary": "Every knee shall bow — every tradition reads the bending of the knee as the body's confession before the Holy and as the posture from which all real prayer rises.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 8,
    "verse": 54,
    "quote": "...Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 45,
    "verse": 23,
    "quote": "...unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 95,
    "verse": 6,
    "quote": "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 18,
    "quote": "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "philippians",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 14,
    "verse": 11,
    "quote": "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-mantle",
  "title": "The Mantle",
  "summary": "The cast-off cloak of the prophet — every tradition figures sacred succession in a piece of fabric, and the call of God in the moment when the mantle falls upon the shoulders of the next.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-kings",
    "chapter": 19,
    "verse": 19,
    "quote": "...Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "2-kings",
    "chapter": 2,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "1-samuel",
    "chapter": 28,
    "verse": 14,
    "quote": "...And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "exodus",
    "chapter": 34,
    "verse": 33,
    "quote": "And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 9,
    "verse": 20,
    "quote": "...a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:"
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "luke",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 49,
    "quote": "...behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."
   }
  ]
 },
 {
  "slug": "the-end",
  "title": "The End",
  "summary": "He that endureth to the end — every tradition lives toward an end, and every tradition holds that the end is not the close of the story but the door of the longer one.",
  "verses": [
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 7,
    "verse": 8,
    "quote": "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "daniel",
    "chapter": 12,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "judaism",
    "corpus": "torah",
    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 46,
    "verse": 10,
    "quote": "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done..."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "matthew",
    "chapter": 24,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "revelation",
    "chapter": 22,
    "verse": 13,
    "quote": "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
   },
   {
    "tradition": "christianity",
    "corpus": "bible",
    "book": "1-corinthians",
    "chapter": 15,
    "verse": 24,
    "quote": "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father..."
   }
  ]
 }
]