'As It is Written' in the Bible

and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written."

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about 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 certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord"),

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

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

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

But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written,

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

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

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed -- the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

just as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news."

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

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name."

but as it is written: "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."

But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him."

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."

as it is written: "The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little."

Just as it is written, "He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever."