Org-emphasis-alist allows you to control the color of your bold, italic, underline, and other types of text in emacs. You can also hide the emphasis markers as well. I will show you how to customize it so you can mess with it how you like it.

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PLAIN TEXT BIBLES (KJV WEB)
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https://github.com/bc-abe/plain-text-bibles

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COPY THIS INTO YOUR config.el in Doom or .spacemacs in Spacemacs
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;; this controls the color of bold, italic, underline, verbatim, strikethrough
(setq org-emphasis-alist
'(("*" (bold :slant italic :weight black )) ;; this make bold both italic and bold, but not color change
("/" (italic :foreground "dark salmon" )) ;; italic text, the text will be "dark salmon"
("_" underline :foreground "cyan" ) ;; underlined text, color is "cyan"
("=" (:background "snow1" :foreground "deep slate blue" )) ;; background of text is "snow1" and text is "deep slate blue"
("~" (:background "PaleGreen1" :foreground "dim gray" ))
("+" (:strike-through nil :foreground "dark orange" ))))
(setq org-hide-emphasis-markers t) ;; hides the emphasis markers

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