Bible quotations

This list includes famous biblical quotations that are now used in popular culture throughout the world.

Old Testament

* The Lord will make you the head, not the tail (Deuteronomy 28: 13)
* Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes 1: 2)
* There is a time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
* Be happy while you are young (Ecclesiastes 11: 9)
* Do not awaken love until it so desires (Song of Songs 2: 7)
* The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1: 7)
* Do not be wise in your own eyes (Proverbs 3: 7)
* Pride goes before destruction and haughtiness before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)
* A prudent wife is from the Lord (Proverbs 19: 14)
* Laziness brings on deep sleep (Proverbs 19: 15)
* Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19: 21)
* Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler (Proverbs 20: 1)
* Even a child is known by his actions (Proverbs 20: 11)
* The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old (Proverbs 20: 29)
* Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife (Proverbs 21: 19)
* He who loves pleasure will become poor (Proverbs 21: 17)
* Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die (Proverbs 23: 13)
* Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. (Proverbs 27: 1)
* As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man (Proverbs 27: 19)
* Never are the eyes of the man satisfied (Proverbs 27: 20)
* Riches do not endure forever and a crown is not secure for all generations (Proverbs 27: 24)
* When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers (Proverbs 28: 2)
* Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse (Proverbs 28: 6)
* Who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long life (Proverbs 28: 16)
* A man tormented by the guilt of murder will be a fugitive till death (Proverbs 28: 17)
* Mene-Tekel-Peres (Daniel 5: 25)

New Testament

* Do not judge, so that you may not be judged (Matthew 7: 1)
* If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Matthew 5: 29)
* Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. (Matthew 7: 6)
* Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matthew 7: 20)
* And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, The old is good. (Matthew 9:17)
* But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:33)
* And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. (Romans 5: 3-4)
* Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)
* Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial (1 Cor. 6: 12 and 1 Cor.10: 23)
* Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s (Matthew 22: 21)
* Love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22: 39)
* Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer! While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived (Matthew 26: 46-47)(Noun Judas has since been used to refer to a traitor.)
* Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7: 3)
*Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7: 7)
* I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.(Acts 20: 35)
* With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God. (Mark 10: 27)