'It is Written' in the Bible

They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet:

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

Jesus said to him, "It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God."

Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you.

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all be disconcerted over me to-night, for it is written, I will strike at the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

As for Elijah, I tell you he has come already, and they have done to him whatever they pleased ??as it is written of him."

Jesus said to them, "You will all be disconcerted, for it is written: I will strike at the shepherd, and, the sheep will be scattered.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord: every male that opens the womb must be considered consecrated to the Lord)

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

Jesus replied to him, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone."

Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you,

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

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

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

Why, it is written in your own Law that the evidence of two persons is valid:

And Jesus came across a young ass and seated himself on it; as it is written,

Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge.

So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host ??as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

This agrees with the words of the prophets; as it is written,

"Brothers," said Paul, "I did not know he was high priest" (for it is written, You must not speak evil of any ruler of your people).

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious ??as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin ??10 as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one;

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

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

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

And how can men preach unless they are sent? ??as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.

This done, all Israel will be saved ??as it is written, The deliverer will come from Sion, he will banish all godlessness from Jacob:

Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital ??the Lord has said it. No,

So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God ??11 for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.

Christ certainly did not please himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those who denounced Thee have fallen upon me. ??4 All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy ??as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

but that (as it is written) They should see who never had learned about him, and they who had never heard of him should understand.

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise.

so that, as it is written, let him who boasts boast of the Lord.

No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.

For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

It is written in the law of Moses, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain. Is God thinking here about cattle?

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

It is written in the Law, By men of alien tongues and by the lips of aliens I will speak to this People; but even so, they will not listen to me, saith the Lord.

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

But since our spirit of faith is the same, therefore ??as it is written I believed and so I spoke ??I too believe and so I speak,

Thus it is to give and take ??as it is written, He who got much had nothing over, and he who got little had not too little.

as it is written, He scatters his gifts to the poor broadcast, his charity lasts for ever.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman;

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren who bearest not, break into joy, thou who travailest not; for the children of the desolate woman are far more than of the married.

as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.