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Bible Quotes Quiz #2

Can you fill the blanks in these quotes from the Bible?
All quotes from the King James version
Quotes are not necessarily an entire verse
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Last updated: November 21, 2014
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First submittedJanuary 8, 2013
Times taken45,462
Average score68.8%
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Verse
Quote
Matthew 7:7
Seek, and ye shall find
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth
Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil
Matthew 26:41
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Genesis 4:9
Am I my brother's keeper?
Ecclesiastes 1:9
And there is no new thing under the sun
Matthew 19:24
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life
Daniel 5:27
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things
Exodus 33:3
A land flowing with milk and honey
Matthew 7:6
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image
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Level 33
Feb 19, 2013
Darn, all but Jeremiah. Not bad for an atheist! :)
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Level 25
May 5, 2014
why do you bother?
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Level 42
Jan 15, 2015
Some like me used to be Catholic, and why should you completely avoid the bible if you're Atheist? That's how the ignorant, annoying ones are around.
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Level 82
Feb 18, 2015
Atheists tend to be more familiar with the Bible than religious people are. If you want to talk about ignorant and annoying, don't leave them out.
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Level 75
Apr 18, 2017
What's the basis for your statement, "Atheists tend to be more familiar with the Bible than religious people are?" I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "religious people". Do you mean Christians in general, or ultraconservative Christians, or members of any religion? It may be true that for every atheist trying to prove a Christian wrong, there's a Christian trying to argue with them, both quoting from the Bible, but I would guess that most atheists don't read and study the Bible on a daily basis, and many Christians do. I don't read my Bible nearly as much as I should, but I'd guess I get much more exposure to it than most atheists, just by attending weekly church services and Bible studies. That still doesn't make me an expert by any means but I try to learn more each day. I've read parts of the "bibles" of other religions, but that doesn't mean I'm more familiar with say, the Quran, than a Muslim. I don't agree with your blanket statement.
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Level 83
Oct 28, 2023
To be honest, as an atheist myself, I would say that some atheists use that argument to mean 'other atheists agree with me about the Bible and Christians do not agree with me, so atheists must know the Bible better'. The people I've met who know the most about the Bible - having read it in the original languages, and studied theology - are all Christians. Which isn't to say that atheists can't know about the Bible either, but the assumption that no Christians do (the suggestion sometimes being that if they did they wouldn't be Christians?) is deeply flawed.
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Level 82
Jun 18, 2017
A tiny portion of Christians study the Bible daily. The vast overwhelming majority have never once read from it. I'm not talking about the 9 people in your Bible Study group, I mean all the 2 billion + people around the world who identify as Christian. Many atheists were former Christians who became atheists because they got to know the Bible too well. Then there are those who are just naturally inquisitive and want to know the reasons for things and understand truth and the nature of reality- these atheists tend to have a broad understanding of all religions as well as science. Meanwhile, the average mainstream theist tends to just go along with what they are told and are not very curious or the type to question things. And of course there are all the many non-Christian religious people out there who are of course more interested in their own religious traditions but not the Bible.
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Level 82
Jun 18, 2017
I imagine that, in the future, as religious influence wanes and more and more people are non-believers... when it gets to the point where to be atheist is the default and belief in a god is seen as strange or different... at that point things might be reversed and then the people who tend to just go along with whatever they are told... most of them will be atheists. The small number of religious people left will be people who studied religious texts and believed them. But, for now, that's maybe only the case in places like Japan or Sweden.
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Level 66
Jan 24, 2019
In the western world, educated people, regardless of their faith, are at least passingly familiar with the Bible as a literary and historical work.
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Level 72
Jun 26, 2021
Once again, Kal, you're confusing opinions with facts. I'm not saying you're wrong, but until you provide serious studies and numbers to support your (seemingly) biased observations, it's hard to see your comments as anything more than a guy trying to provoke others that don't think like him into an argument. (Yet, as annoying as I find you at times, I'm always looking for you in the comments section. I seem to find it oddly entertaining, for some reason.)
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Level 72
Jun 26, 2021
Oh, and don't bother with the usual witty, word-twisting come back. You'll think you're helping your case; you won't be, And I won't reply.
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2021
https://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey/

@kalbahamut is broadly correct: in this Pew research study, atheists/agnostics knew more (6.7/12 vs. 6.0/12) than Christians in general about the Bible and Christianity.

Mormons and white evangelicals specifically know more, but not Christians in general. And atheists/agnostics know much more about religion in general than other groups.

To turn to anecdote, as @ander217 has done: I have found a few different types of religious people (by which I mean people who identify as being a member of a religion): those like @ander217 who study the sources of their faith and who definitely outstrip me and (I'd assume) most atheists in their knowledge; but that's not very many people. I've never personally met someone who describes themselves as Christian who had much knowledge of the documentary tradition of the Bible, for example--how it was constituted and how it has existed in various forms.

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Level 82
Apr 3, 2022
Thanks for the warning, Crusher. I've been scared against using any wit in my response and will surely avoid it, lest I suffer the terrible repercussions you listed. But as pd pointed out above, none of what I said is the product of bias or opinion. Multiple studies and surveys have shown the same thing. None that I'm aware of have ever shown the opposite. Don't be so lazy and look them up yourself if you're actually curious. When speaking about a fact or point of data that is universally supported across many different sources, without any contrary evidence in existence, it shouldn't really be necessary to cite a source. (not that this would be necessary in other cases; I'm not writing a term paper)
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Level 72
Nov 28, 2023
All of this brings into question what you mean by "Christian". I would think that there are many people who are not really religious who answer that they are Christian because of background or historical reasons. Also there are plenty of people who believe that they are Christian who seem not to be very Christian at all. So who gets included in any statistics?
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Level 32
Oct 16, 2014
The love of money is the root of all KINDS of evil. King James is the only version I've seen that omits the word kinds. It would probably make the quiz more difficult while still being correct.
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Level 54
Feb 18, 2015
Some absolutely beautiful words quoted in this quiz!
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Level 65
Feb 18, 2015
I'm Jewish and I got all of the ones in the Five Books of Moses and none from the rest.
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Level 71
Sep 26, 2015
Straight rather than strait.
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Level 74
Nov 17, 2015
No, it's strait. 'Strait' in this context means 'narrow'.
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Level 70
Nov 17, 2015
13/16 Not bad - and I'm the Pope
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Level 71
Jun 18, 2017
Most if not all of these quotes are used in English literature as well as in daily speech. British people are so used to hearing them (that goes for Australians and Kiwis too) that being derived from the Bible becomes secondary. They are as many non-biblical proverbs that have become part of the inherent language. It is similar to Shakespeare's quotes, many people use Shakespeare quotes and invented words that have never read Shakespeare, they are just part of general knowledge of the English language .
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Level 82
Jun 18, 2017
It's not any different in the USA.
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Level 65
Jun 18, 2017
I only knew "The heart is deceitful above all things" 'cos it's a film and I've got it on DVD :)
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Level 75
Jun 18, 2017
I halfheartedly tried 'raisin' for the one about going through a needle. It was funny.

Then I realised that it is funny WHICHEVER QUOTE YOU INSERT IT INTO. Try it!

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Level 70
Mar 11, 2018
Know all the quotes in danish, but struggled a bit with the translation to english. In the end only the deceitful heart was missing - which is a good thing I guess...
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Level 78
May 5, 2019
Interestingly, in the german version of Psalm 23, there is no mention of death. It only speaks of the valley of darkness.
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Level 78
Jun 22, 2021
That's the most famous version since Luther used it, but there are other translations that mention death.
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Level 62
Aug 5, 2020
It's the gate is straight and the way is narrow.
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Level 76
Jun 22, 2021
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Level 63
Jun 22, 2021
"the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil"
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Level 76
Jun 22, 2021
This quiz is using the King James Version, which has the quote as given here.
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Level 59
Jun 22, 2021
I only got Psalm 23:4 because of the song "Gangsters in Paradise" lol
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Level 76
Nov 20, 2022
"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!"