1st century

Showing 357 works across all media from the 1st century

Scripture · Religious literature

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jesus

John 3:16 · 90

★ 9.9

Scripture · Religious literature

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus

Matthew 19:24 · 60

★ 9.3

Fiction · Narrative poem

Metamorphoses

Ovid

8 · 764 pages

Ovid runs classical myth through a single idea, transformation, from the creation of the world to Julius Caesar. Girls become trees and hunters become deer, and painters have ransacked him for centuries.

★ 8.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Jesus

Matthew 7:7 · 60

★ 8.5

Scripture · Religious literature

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Jesus

Matthew 7:12 · 60

★ 8.5

Scripture · Religious literature

Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

1st Timothy 5:23

64

★ 7.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 2:10

96

★ 7.6

Scripture · Religious literature

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:24

61

★ 7.5

Scripture · Religious literature

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Apostle Paul

Romans 10:13 · 56

★ 7.5

Poem

Time, the devourer of all things.

Ovid

8

★ 7.3

Scripture · Religious literature

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Jesus

Mark 3:24-25 · 60

★ 7.2

Philosophical literature

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria · 95

★ 7.2

Scripture · Religious literature

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Jesus

Matthew 6:33 · 60

★ 7.2

Letter

Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use.

Ovid

18

★ 7.2

Scripture · Religious literature

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Jesus

Matthew 22:14 · 60

★ 7.2

Scripture · Religious literature

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Apostle Paul

Romans 8:31 · 56

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

He gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:46

61

★ 7.1

Letter

If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Seneca

65

★ 7.1

Nonfiction · Biography

Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

Plutarch

100 · 784 pages

Plutarch pairs each famous Greek with a Roman, Alexander with Caesar, and judges them, holding that a jest can reveal a man better than a battle. Shakespeare took three plays out of it.

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Jesus

Matthew 5:44 · 60

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”

Pontius Pilate

John 18:38 · 90

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

The kingdom of God is within you.

Jesus

Luke 17:21 · 61

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

What is hateful to you do not to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

Hillel the Elder

10

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Jesus

Matthew 7:5 · 60

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

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.

Jesus

Matthew 25:40 · 60

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Jesus

Luke 24:5 · 61

★ 7.1

Nonfiction · Practical philosophy

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

60 · 254 pages

Nero's tutor sets down how to die, how to hold wealth lightly, and how to stop waiting for life to begin. Philosophy arrives as advice from someone who likes you.

★ 7.0

Fiction · Satire

The Satires

Juvenal

100 · 320 pages

Bread and circuses came from here, and so did the line about guarding the guards. Juvenal turns sixteen poems of fury on imperial Rome, where an honest man cannot afford to live.

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Jesus

Matthew 6:9-13 · 60

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Apostle Paul

Romans 5:8 · 56

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Jesus

Matthew 26:26-28 · 60

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Jesus

Matthew 5:7 · 60

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Jesus

Matthew 6:28-29 · 60

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:6, 7

61

★ 7.0

Poem

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

Ovid

2

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 13:4-8 · 55

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1st John 1:8

95

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

God

Acts 9:4 · 62

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

The love of money is the root of all evil.

1st Timothy 6:10

64

★ 7.0

Scripture · Religious literature

If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

Jesus

Mark 9:23 · 60

★ 6.9