Biblical passages

48 passages the Church Fathers cite or discuss — the passage text, the works that treat it, and parallel passages.

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• Genesis 1 — The six days of creation.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Genesis 1:26–27 — Humanity made in the image of God.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Genesis 2:7 — God forms man from the dust and breathes life into him.
  2 curated works · 6 cited-in-text works
• Genesis 3:15 — Enmity between the serpent and the woman's seed.
  2 curated works · 4 cited-in-text works
• Genesis 22 — The binding of Isaac.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Exodus 3:14 — “I AM THAT I AM” at the burning bush.
  3 curated works · 6 cited-in-text works
• Exodus 20 — The Ten Commandments.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Deuteronomy 6:4–5 — “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.”
  3 curated works · 6 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 1 — The righteous and the ungodly, like a tree and like chaff.
  2 curated works · 2 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 2 — “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”
  2 curated works · 2 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 8 — “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
  2 curated works · 0 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 22 — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
  3 curated works · 3 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 23 — “The LORD is my shepherd.”
  2 curated works · 2 cited-in-text works
• Psalm 110 — “Sit thou at my right hand.”
  3 curated works · 1 cited-in-text work
• Proverbs 8:22–31 — Wisdom present before creation.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Isaiah 7:14 — “Behold, a virgin shall conceive.”
  3 curated works · 6 cited-in-text works
• Isaiah 9:6 — “Unto us a child is born.”
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Isaiah 53 — The suffering servant.
  4 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Jeremiah 31:31–34 — A new covenant written on the heart.
  2 curated works · 5 cited-in-text works
• Ezekiel 37 — The valley of dry bones.
  2 curated works · 7 cited-in-text works
• Daniel 7:13–14 — One like a son of man coming with the clouds.
  2 curated works · 4 cited-in-text works
• Micah 5:2 — “Out of thee shall he come forth… whose goings forth have been from of old.”
  2 curated works · 8 cited-in-text works
• Malachi 3:1 — The messenger preparing the way.
  1 curated work · 4 cited-in-text works
• Matthew 1:18–25 — The birth of Jesus.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Matthew 5 — The Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount's opening chapter.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Matthew 16:18 — “Upon this rock I will build my church.”
  2 curated works · 4 cited-in-text works
• Matthew 27:46 — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” on the cross.
  2 curated works · 0 cited-in-text works
• Mark 1:1 — “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
  2 curated works · 1 cited-in-text work
• Luke 1:26–38 — The annunciation to Mary.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Luke 2 — The birth in Bethlehem and the child in the temple.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• John 1:1–18 — “In the beginning was the Word.”
  5 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• John 1:14 — “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• John 3:16 — “God so loved the world.”
  2 curated works · 1 cited-in-text work
• John 10:30 — “I and my Father are one.”
  3 curated works · 9 cited-in-text works
• John 14:6 — “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Acts 2 — Pentecost and the first preaching.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Romans 3:21–26 — Righteousness apart from the law, through faith.
  2 curated works · 6 cited-in-text works
• Romans 5:12–21 — Adam and Christ, sin and grace.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Romans 8 — Life in the Spirit; nothing separates from the love of God.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• 1 Corinthians 13 — The hymn to love.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• 1 Corinthians 15 — The resurrection of the dead.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Galatians 4:4 — “When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son.”
  2 curated works · 7 cited-in-text works
• Philippians 2:5–11 — Christ's humility and exaltation.
  3 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Colossians 1:15–20 — “The image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Hebrews 1 — The Son, heir of all things, superior to the angels.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• Hebrews 11 — The roll call of faith.
  2 curated works · 10 cited-in-text works
• 1 John 5:7 — The “three that bear record in heaven” — a verse whose textual history is itself famous.
  1 curated work · 2 cited-in-text works
• Revelation 21 — A new heaven and a new earth.
  2 curated works · 5 cited-in-text works

How the links were derived: curated links are an editor’s selection of works that treat the passage (commentaries on its book, doctrinal treatises on its theme); cited-in-text links were found by scanning the Fathers corpus files for a reference to the passage. Roman-numeral references are not scanned, so the cited lists undercount.