I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
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Old Testament
Deuteronomy1 verses →
Anonymous. Largely a farewell address placed in Moses' mouth by a narrator who goes on to describe his death.
Joshua1 verses →
Anonymous. Tells Joshua's story in the third person.
Psalms6 verses →
Many hands over centuries. Superscriptions assign a number to David; those are ancient editorial notes, not signatures.
Proverbs3 verses →
A collection headed as Solomon's, which elsewhere names other compilers.
Ecclesiastes1 verses →
Written in the voice of 'the Preacher, the son of David' — a role rather than a name.
Isaiah2 verses →
Spans centuries of material and has long been read as the work of more than one hand.
Lamentations1 verses →
Anonymous. Tradition assigns it to Jeremiah; the text does not.
New Testament
Matthew2 verses →
Anonymous. The name is a second-century attribution.
John3 verses →
Anonymous. Names its own source only as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'.
Paul's letters13 verses →
Named by the text and widely accepted — the clearest authorship in the Bible. Several letters bearing his name are disputed and are marked as such.
James1 verses →
Names its author only as James, a very common name. Which James is disputed.
1 Peter1 verses →
Names Peter. Its polished Greek has made that contested since antiquity.
Revelation1 verses →
Names its author as John. Which John has been disputed since the third century.
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View all filters →Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
Paul urges renewed thinking, mutual honor, empathy, and responses that resist retaliation.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Paul urges renewed thinking, mutual honor, empathy, and responses that resist retaliation.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
On the distance between planning and outcome.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
On the effect of what people say to one another.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
From a psalm contrasting the patient with the envious.
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.
Reported as part of a night conversation with Nicodemus. The Gospel is anonymous; the name is a later attribution.
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Jesus speaking to two fishermen, as reported by the Gospel.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Closing a long argument about death.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
On becoming someone other than who you were.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
A proverb compares a person's purposes with deep water that understanding can draw out.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.