Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;

because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears--to their supplication, and the face of the Lord is upon those doing evil;'

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye ! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself--to rolling in mire.'

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron--as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken--as I also have received from my Father;