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- Origin: Ecclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.” (ESV)
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- Always, always, always give the Bible translation for the verses you quote. (Even on memes!)
- In running text (i.e., paragraph form), cite a Bible reference in the following way: “God is love” (1 John 4:8 NKJV). Notice there’s no comma within the parentheses, and the period goes after the ending parenthesis.
- If your Bible verse is longer than three or four lines, make it a block quote (all lines are indented on the left), and put the period at the end of the verse, so that it looks like this—“have everlasting life.”
- If you’re writing a book and using one translation most of the time, you can put a note on the copyright page and not mention the translation every time you use it.
Jan 14, 2024 · Here are some tips for formatting long Bible quotes: For Bible passages that are more than 4 lines long, format them as a block quotation. Start the quote on a new line and indent the entire quote 0.5 inches from the left margin. Do not use quotation marks around the passage.
- Quotation Marks Should Begin and End Your Quoting of Scripture.
- What Do You Do If What You’Re Copying Is Already in Quotation marks?
- Lead Into Your Quotation of Scripture.
- Cite Your Sources Using Parenthetical Documentation.
- Place End Punctuation correctly.
The beginning quotation mark means this is where you start copying and then the end quotation mark means this is where you stop copying. A reminder that quotation marks mean you are copying word for word. Do not change anything. One easy way to make sure your Scripture is correct is to use Biblegateway. At this site you can look up a verse, and the...
Sometimes you will quote something that is already in quotation marks. This happens often when quoting something Jesus said. Let’s say you want to quote this statement Jesus makes in John 14:6:“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” If I want to include this in my manuscript, I use regular quotation m...
Try to lead into your quotation, instead of just plopping it into your paragraph. The lead-in is called the introductory phrase. The introductory phrase below is “Scripture states.” Notice how the introductory phrase is followed by a comma before the quotation begins. Scripture states, “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power an...
In the above examples, each quotation is followed by information in parentheses. This is called parenthetical documentation. This is also referred to as in-text citation. In a nutshell this is important because you are telling your reader where you got your information. How do you know what to put in the parentheses? Let’s look at the examples agai...
Ending punctuation always goes after the parenthetical documentation. Note in the example below that the period is placed after the last parentheses. Scripture states, “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7). Note in the example below, no parenthetical documentation is used, so the perio...
Feb 28, 2019 · Paul exhorts Timothy, saying, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching” (2 Tim 4:2). Here, the quote is preceded by an introductory statement (“saying”), so you include a comma before the quote. Paul then lists several exhortations for Timothy to follow ...
Each word is matched separately. For example, entering God love finds occurrences of both God and love, not the phrase God love. Word beginnings are matched. For example, sin also finds occurrences of Sinai.
Mar 3, 2015 · 6. EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY. This popular sentiment is outlined several times in the Bible ( Luke 12:19, 1 Corinthians 15:32 ), but appears first in the Book of Ecclesiastes: “man hath no better ...
Mar 13, 2017 · God took care of the burial up there in the mountain. Nobody knows where Moses was buried. “Jude cited extrabiblical sources to indict the very pride of his opponents using them.”. What we don’t know for sure is exactly where this story comes from according to verse 9. There is more in Jude 14–15 that we do know, but here we don’t ...
