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SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·The Bible✕clear

Poem

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

William Blake

The Everlasting Gospel · 1818

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 3.6

Song · Opera · Great American songbook

It ain't necessarily so- The things that you're liable To read in the Bible- It ain't necessarily so.

Ira Gershwin

1935

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119:105

450 BC

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

2nd Timothy 3:16

67

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Jesus

Mark 13:31 · 60

★ 1.9

Sermon · Speech

The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.

John Robinson

1620

★ 1.9

Letter · Religious literature

It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

1910

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The English Bible,— a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1828

★ 1.9

Letter

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

John Jay Chapman

1898

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:2

686 BC

★ 1.3

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