In their own words — 2791 recorded sayings
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“And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit. And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.”— Stephen, Acts 7:59-60
“And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden: But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.”— Eve, Genesis 3:2-3
“And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.”— Eve, Genesis 3:13
“And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.”— Eve, Genesis 4:1
“And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.”— Eve, Genesis 4:25
“Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers. And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant. May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”— Noah, Genesis 9:25-27
“It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.”— Esther, Esther 4:11
“Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.”— Esther, Esther 4:16
“And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.”— Esther, Esther 5:4
“Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this: If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”— Esther, Esther 5:7-8
“Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request: For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.”— Esther, Esther 7:3-4
“And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.”— Esther, Esther 7:6
“Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.”— Esther, Esther 9:13
“But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God. Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.”— Ruth, Ruth 1:16-17
“And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.”— Ruth, Ruth 2:2
“Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?”— Ruth, Ruth 2:10
“Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.”— Ruth, Ruth 2:13
“And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.”— Ruth, Ruth 2:19
“And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.”— Ruth, Ruth 2:21
“And she said, I will do all you say.”— Ruth, Ruth 3:5
“And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.”— Ruth, Ruth 3:9
“And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.”— Ruth, Ruth 3:17
“And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.”— Samson, Judges 14:2
“Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.”— Samson, Judges 14:3
“And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;”— Samson, Judges 14:12
“But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is. And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.”— Samson, Judges 14:13-14
“Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?”— Samson, Judges 14:16
“Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.”— Samson, Judges 14:18
“Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.”— Samson, Judges 15:1
“Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.”— Samson, Judges 15:3
“And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.”— Samson, Judges 15:7
“Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.”— Samson, Judges 15:11
“Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.”— Samson, Judges 15:12
“And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.”— Samson, Judges 15:16
“After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.”— Samson, Judges 15:18
“And Samson said to her, If seven new bow-cords which have never been made dry are knotted round me, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.”— Samson, Judges 16:7
“And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man.”— Samson, Judges 16:11
“And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.”— Samson, Judges 16:17
“Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.”— Samson, Judges 16:20
“And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.”— Samson, Judges 16:26
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