'As It is Written' in the Bible

The Son of Man goes just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way";

And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites; as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him."

For the Son of Man goes just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,

But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Certainly not! Let God be true, though every man a liar. As it is written: "That you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged."

As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls things that do not exist as though they did.

As it is written: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"

as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, down to this very day."

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name";

but as it is written: "They shall see who have not been told of him, and those who have not heard shall understand."

therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."

As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."