King James Bible Quotes

“Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

“Though I am sometimes reluctant to admit it, there really is something 'timeless' in the Tyndale/King James synthesis. For generations, it provided a common stock of references and allusions, rivalled only by Shakespeare in this respect. It resounded in the minds and memories of literate people, as well as of those who acquired it only by listening. From the stricken beach of Dunkirk in 1940, faced with a devil’s choice between annihilation and surrender, a British officer sent a cable back home. It contained the three words 'but if not…' All of those who received it were at once aware of what it signified. In the Book of Daniel, the Babylonian tyrant Nebuchadnezzar tells the three Jewish heretics Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that, if they refuse to bow to his sacred idol, they will be flung into a 'burning fiery furnace.' They made him an answer: 'If it be so, our god whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thy hand, o King. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.' A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin one. To seek restlessly to update it or make it 'relevant' is to miss the point, like yearning for a hip-hop Shakespeare. 'Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward,' says the Book of Job. Want to try to improve that for Twitter?”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Acts 17:25
Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
― Luke

“And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”
― Psalm 9:10

“John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
― John

“If a man die, shall he live again?”
― Iyyob (Job)

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.”
― Psalms 139

“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
― Psalm 20:8

“Obadiah 1:4”
― Obadiah, Prophecy of the Judgement of Edom

“And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.”
― King James Bible

“If accuracy, fidelity, and the strictest attention to the letter of the text, be supposed to constitute the qualities of an excellent version, this of all versions, must, in general, be accounted the most excellent. Every sentence, every word, every syllable, and every letter and point, seems to have been weighed with the nicest exactitude; and expressed, either in the text, or margin, with the greatest precision”
― Father Alexander Geddes