Passages
The most famous named passages in the Bible — searched and quoted by name far more often than by book and chapter.
- The Lord's Prayer
The model prayer Jesus taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount — the most recited passage of Scripture in Christian history, prayed daily across every denomination and tradition.
- Psalm 23
"The LORD is my shepherd" — David's psalm of trust, the most widely known chapter in the Psalter and a staple of funerals, hospital visits, and personal devotion across every Christian tradition.
- The Ten Commandments
The core moral and covenantal law God gave Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses — the foundation of biblical law and one of the most reproduced texts in Western legal and ethical tradition.
- The Beatitudes
The eight "Blessed are..." statements that open the Sermon on the Mount — Jesus's inaugural description of who belongs to the kingdom of heaven and what a life shaped by it looks like.
- 1 Corinthians 13
Paul's "love chapter" — the definition of love read at more Christian weddings than any other biblical text, written not as a poem about romance but as a corrective to a fractured, competitive church.
- John 3:16
"For God so loved the world" — the most quoted verse in the Bible, John's one-sentence summary of the gospel: God's love, the gift of his Son, and eternal life for everyone who believes.
- The Armor of God
Paul's call to "put on the whole armour of God" — the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shield of faith, helmet of salvation and sword of the Spirit, given to stand against spiritual opposition.