Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”