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Quotes from The Bible

"For the word of God is alive and active.
Sharper than any double-edged sword,
it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;

it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

—Hebrews 4:12

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

—John 3:16-17

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

—Matthew 22:37-40

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."

—Luke 6:31

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

—James 1:27

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

—Jeremiah 29:11

"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."

—1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love."

—1 Corinthians 13:13

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

—1 John 4:8

"'He gave justice and help to the poor and needy, and everything went well for him. Isn’t that what it means to know me?' says the Lord."

—Jeremiah 22:16

"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

—Romans 10:9

"To show that you are His sons and daughters, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out: 'Abba, Father!' So then, you are no longer a slave but a son or daughter. And since that is what you are, God will give you all that He has for His heirs."

—Galatians 4:6-7

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

—Galatians 3:28

"A voice says, 'Cry!' And I said, 'What shall I cry?' All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever."

—Isiah 40:6-8

Quotes about The Bible

It's not "a piece" of literature, it's a whole set. It's not so much a book as a library. Different books are mythology, history, poetry, food safety, memoir, apocalypse, letters...
My favourite book of the Bible is The Acts of the Apostles, which is this great story about a group of people in the Roman Empire trying to get organized, squabbling, travelling about and trying to convert people and then having difficulty with the converts. I'm always surprised how few people have read it.
If you mean the prose, then for translations I think only the King James Version in English and the Jerome's Latin translation (the Vulgate) really qualify as literature.

—Jo Walton, author and literary critic, March 30, 2017

And yes, I've read the Bible cover to cover, twice. Some good moral tales, an awful lot of blood and violence, some real slow parts (anyone who can make it all the way through Numbers and Deuteronomy has my unbridled respect), some real potboilers, a few plot holes and an inconsistent hero, but overall, commendable reading.

—J. Michael Straczynski

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