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Bible (ASV) NT 09: Galatians
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The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities i…
Bible (ASV) NT 06: Romans
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The Epistle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of the Christian Bible. In the words of N.T. Wright, the Book of …
Bible (ASV) NT 23: 1 John
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The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament, the fourth of the catholic or "general" epistles. It was written i…
Bible (ASV) NT 24: 2 John
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The Second Epistle of John (normally just called 2nd John or 2 John) is a book of the Bible New Testament. It is the 63rd book of the Bible,…
Bible (ASV) NT 25: 3 John
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The New Testament Third Epistle of John (often referred to as 3 John) is the 64th book of the Bible. Written in the form of an epistle, it i…
Bible (ASV) NT 18: Epistle to Philemon
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Paul, who is apparently in prison (probably in either Rome or Ephesus), writes to a fellow-Christian Philemon and two of his associates. Pau…
Bible (ASV) NT 26: Epistle of Jude
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The epistle is titled as written by "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James" NIV. If taken literally this means th…
Bible (ASV) NT 02: Mark
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The Gospel of Mark is a Gospel of the New Testament. It narrates the life of Jesus from John the Baptist to the Ascension, but it concentrat…
Bible (ASV) NT 19: Hebrews
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The Epistle to the Hebrews (abbr. Heb for citations) is one of the books in the New Testament. Though traditionally credited to the Apostle …
Bible (ASV) NT 20: James
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The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood …
Bible (ASV) NT 21: 1 Peter
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The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament. It has traditionally been held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle du…
Bible (ASV) NT 22: 2 Peter
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The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament of the Bible. According to the epistle itself, it was written by the apostle Pete…
Bible (ASV) NT 10: Ephesians
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Described by William Barclay as the "Queen of the Epistles," the Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the Bible in the …
Bible (ASV) NT 11: Philippians
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The Epistle to Philippians (or just Philippians) is a book included in the New Testament of the Bible. It is a letter from St. Paul to the c…
Bible (ASV) NT 12: Colossians
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The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible New Testament. The book is a letter from Paul to the church in Colossae.
Bible (ASV) NT 17: Titus
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The Epistle to Titus is a book of the canonic New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 …
Bible (ASV) NT 15: 1 Timothy
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The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles, written by Saint Paul and part of the New Testament of the Bible. It con…
Bible (ASV) NT 16: 2 Timothy
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The Second Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles, written by Paul, and is part of the canonical New Testament. It may hav…
Bible (ASV) NT 13: 1 Thessalonians
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The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the First Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christi…
Bible (ASV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians
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The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Chris…
Bible (ASV) NT 07: 1 Corinthians
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The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament. 1 Corinthians is a letter from Paul of Tarsus and Sosthene…
Bible (ASV) NT 08: 2 Corinthians
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The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a book in the New Testament, written by Paul the Apostle. In this book, sometimes called Paul's Sto…
Bible (ASV) NT 04: John
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The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά Ιωαννην, Kata Iōannēn) is the fourth gospel in the canon of the New Testament…
Bible (ASV) NT 27: Revelation
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The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John or Apocalypse of John, (literally, apocalypse of John; Greek, Αποκαλυψις Ιωαννου, Apo…
Bible (ASV) NT 01: Matthew
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The Gospel of Matthew (Greek: Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον, Kata Maththaion or Kata Matthaion; literally, "according to Matthew"…
Bible (ASV) NT 03: Luke
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The Gospel of Luke is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the…
Bible (ASV) NT 05: Acts
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The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. Acts tells the story of the Early Christian ch…
Bible (KJV) 00: Introduction
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The introduction to the KJV Bible revealed the thanks of the translators to "TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE JAMES, BY THE GRACE OF …
Bible (ASV) 20: Proverbs
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Proverbs, a book of the Old Testament, is a collection of pithy Biblical sayings. It is wisdom literature by multiple authors, including Sol…
Bible (ASV) 19: Psalms
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"Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible included in the collected works known as the Writings. Psalms were written by various writers, i…
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
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Pope Clement I
"First Clement is one of the oldest Christian documents outside the New Testament canon. The epistle was written by Clement, one of th…
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3)
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal wit…
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2)
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The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot …
Romeo and Juliet (version 3)
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William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths&qu…
Bible (ASV) 01: Genesis
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"Genesis (Greek: "birth", "origin") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and the first of five books of the Penta…
Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes (version 2)
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"Ecclesiastes is a wisdom book of the Old Testament. The author represents himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusal…
Bible (ASV) 28: Hosea
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Hosea was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BCE. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also…
Bible (ASV) 29: Joel
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"The Book of Joel is part of the Jewish Tanakh, and also the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Joel is part of a group of twelve pr…
Bible (ASV) 31: Obadiah
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"The Book of Obadiah is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, where it is the shortest book, onl…
Bible (ASV) 30: Amos
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"The Book of Amos is one of the books of the Nevi'im (Hebrew: "prophets") and of the Christian Old Testament. Amos is one of …
Bible (ASV) 09: 1 Samuel
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The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh'muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism's Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old …
The Keepsake
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William James Mcglothlin
"The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures For Childhood and Youth", is a collection of twenty pastoral poems published as one collecti…
Poems of William Blake
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William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and pain…
Bible (ASV) 32: Jonah
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In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth book in a series of books called the Minor Prophets. Unlike other prophetic books howeve…
Bible (ASV) 33: Micah
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The book may be divided into three sections: Chapters 1–3 mainly consist of oracles of judgment. Chapters 4–5 of oracles of hope. Chapters 6…
Bible (ASV) 34: Nahum
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Nahum prophesied, according to some, in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz (740s BC). Others, however, think that his prophecies are to be r…
Bible (ASV) 35: Habakkuk
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Practically nothing is known about Habakkuk's personal history, except for what can be inferred from the text of his book, which consists of…
Bible (ASV) 39: Malachi
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Malachi (or Malachias, מַלְאָכִי, Malʾaḫi, Mál'akhî) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, written by the pro…
Bible (ASV) 37: Haggai
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The Book of Haggai is a book of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and of the Old Testament, written by the prophet Haggai. It was written in 520 BC …
Bible (ASV) 36: Zephaniah
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The superscription of the Book of Zephaniah attributes its authorship to “Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezek…
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasseh
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The Prayer of Manasseh is a short work of only 15 verses that purports to be the penitential prayer of the Judean king Manasseh, who is reco…
Bible (ASV) 38: Zechariah
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Zechariah’s ministry took place during the reign of Darius the Great (Zechariah 1:1), and was contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic worl…
The Didache
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Unknowntranslated Byalexander Roberts and Translated Byalexander Roberts
The Didache is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (dated by most scholars to the late first or early second century), conta…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias)
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Douay-Rheims Version
The book tells the alleged story of a righteous Israelite of the Tribe of Naphtali named Tobit living in Nineveh after the deportation of th…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Judith
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The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for being unwilling to engage their …
Bible (ASV) 25: Lamentations
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The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה, Eikha, ʾēḫā(h)) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. It is traditionally read …
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom
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Wisdom is one of the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is a wisdom book, bearing similarity to the canonical works. Scholar…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees
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1 Maccabees is an apocryphal/deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probab…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Esther
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An additional six chapters appear interspersed in Esther in the Septuagint, the Greek translation, which then was noted by Jerome in compili…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Daniel
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The Additions to Daniel comprise three chapters not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel. The text of these chapters is found in the G…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Baruch
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Douay-Rheims Version
The Book of Baruch consists of exhortation to Jews in exile to accept exile, hope for the mercy of God, and resist the temptation to worship…
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
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Polycarp
Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians (often simply called To the Philippians) composed around 110 to 140 AD is described by Irenaeus as foll…
Bible (ASV) 08: Ruth
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During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem - Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon…
Bible (ASV) 17: Esther
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The book commences with a feast organized by Ahasuerus, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of Shusha…
Bible (ASV) 18: Job (version 2)
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God permits "Satan," or in some translations "the adversary" or "the accuser," to put the virtue of Job to the…
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z
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Various
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the …
Bible (ASV) 15: Ezra
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The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus the Great (536 B.C.), till the completion and dedication of the new Te…
Aunt Friendly's Picture Book
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Sarah S. Baker
This book includes the classic alphabet, Sing-A-Song Of Sixpence, The Frog Who Would A Wooing go, The Three LIttle Pigs, Puss In Boot, and T…
Epistles of Ignatius
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Saint Ignatius Of Antioch
Ignatius of Antioch penned these letters to churches (Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, Philadelphians, and Smyrnaeans) and Polycarp…
Bible (KJV) 00: Preface
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The preface to the KJV Bible is fitting to read, as it reminds contemporary readers of the transitory nature of all Bible translations. The …
Bible (ASV) 27: Daniel
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The Book of Daniel (דניאל), originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Test…
The Psalms and Odes of Solomon
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Unknowntranslated Byj. Rendel Harris and Translated Byj. Rendel Harris
One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptura…
Bible (ASV) 10: 2 Samuel
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“The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh’muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism’s Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old…
Bible (ASV) 13: 1 Chronicles
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The Books of Chronicles (Hebrew Divrei Hayyamim, דברי הימים, Greek Paralipomenon, Παραλειπομένων) are part of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Tanak…
Bible (ASV) 07: Judges
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"The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim) is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Ch…
Beauties of Tennyson
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A collection of Tennyson's poetry : 1 The Brook - 00:16 2 Song from "Maud" - 1:20 3 A Farewell - 2:34 4 Song from “Maud” - 3:26…
Bible (ASV) 23: Isaiah
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"The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיה) is a book of the Bible traditionally attributed to the Prophet Isaiah, who lived in the second…
Bible (ASV) 02: Exodus
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"Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God: Mount Sinai. There Yahweh, through Moses, give…
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 2)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles one of the most famous romances in history. The renowned Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett wrote the s…
Bible (ASV) 16: Nehemiah
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"The Book of Nehemiah, sometimes called the Second Book of Ezra, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. It is historically regarded as a contin…
Bible (ASV) 05: Deuteronomy
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"Deuteronomy (Greek: Δευτερονόμιον, "second law") or Devarim (Hebrew: דְּבָרִים, literally "things" or "words…
Hamlet (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge…