IGCSE Religious Studies All Biblical Verses

Genesis 1:31

God created in the universe in six days ‘He saw that it was good’

Genesis 2:7

God formed Adam from ‘dust’

Genesis 2:18

God created Eve from Adam’s rib as a ‘suitable companion’

Genesis 3

The fall and man’s expulsion from Eden

Genesis 1:28

“Be fruitful and multiply the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens”

Genesis 1:27

Imago Dei

Matthew 22:37

Jesus’ greatest commandment is to ‘Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’

Matthew 22:39

Second is like the first greatest commandment, to ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’

John 3:16

Purpose of humans is salvation in Christ ‘For God so loved the world’

Matthew 28:19-20

‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations’

John 1:14

The incarnation, Jesus becomes flesh as a human

John 3:16

Salvation is an offer only for humans

Genesis 3

The Fall - humans are fallen and inclined towards sin

→ Links to mistaking evil for ‘apparent good’

1 Corinthians 6:19

St Paul speaking

‘Your body is the ~~temple~~ of the holy ghost which is in you’

Matthew 16:26

‘What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?’

Mark 8:36

‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole word, yet forfeit soul'?’

Matthew 4:4 (Quoting Deuteronomy 8:3)

(Against the temptations of the devil) ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God’

→ the word of God sustains your soul, it is our life-giving source

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John 6:63

‘It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life’

→ Cross-reference Matthew 4:4 and Deuteronomy 8:3

Luke 10:25-37

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Matthew 25:31-46 (And the 4 Christian duties)

The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats:

1. Feed the hungry

2. Clothe the poor

3. Help the sick

4. Visit prisoners

1 Timothy 6:10

‘The love of money is the root of all evil’

Matthew 6:24

‘No one can serve two masters’ (Money and God)

Luke 23:34

'Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing. ' 

Matthew 5:48

‘Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect’

→ Sermon on the mount

→ Summarizing Jesus’ teachings about the law by telling us to be whole, rounded and complete as God is

Luke 9:23

‘Whoever wants to be my disciples must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me’

Job 1:12

‘The Lord gives and the Lord takes away’

Psalm 139:13

‘For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.’

Jeremiah 1:5

‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’

Genesis 2:18-24

‘a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife and the two become one flesh.’

Ephesians 5:24

‘Wives should obey their husbands in everything, just as the church people obey Christ.’

Exodus 20:14

‘Thou shall not commit adultery’

1 Corinthians 6

‘Flee sexual immorality’

1 Corinthians 7

‘for it is better to marry then to burn with passion’

Matthew 5:28

‘But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’

Matthew 19:6

‘So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate).’

Exodus 20:12

‘Honour your father and mother’

Colossians 3:20-21

‘Children, it is your Christian duty to obey your parents always for that is whaat pleases God. Parents do not irritate your children, or they will become discouraged.’

1 Corinthians 7:1

‘It is good for a man not to touch a woman’

1 Samuel 15:3

‘Go now and fall on the Amalekites and destroy them, and put their property under ban. Spare no one…’

Matthew 5:9

‘Blessed are the peacemakers’

Matthew 26:52

‘Those who live by the sword die by the sword’

John 15:4

‘Greater love has no man that this that he lay down his life for his friends’

Romans 13:1f

‘Let every person be subject to the ruling authorities… he who resists the authorities resists God’

Isaiah 2:4

‘God will settle the disputes of the nations, among the great powers near and far, they will hammer their swords into ploughs, and their spears into knives

Amos 5:24

‘But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!’

Romans 12:19

God says: ‘It is mine to avenge, I will repay’

Matthew 18:22

‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times’

Hebrews 12:14

‘Strive for peace with everyone’

Genesis 9:6

‘Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed’

Leviticus 24:20

‘An eye for an eye’

John 8:1-11

Jesus stops the stoning of a woman caught in adultery

‘If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her’

Matthew 5:39

‘Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you’

‘If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’

Updating OT

Deuteronomy 7

‘Destroy the foreigner in the land’

Matthew 28:18

‘Go make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father, son and holy spirit.’

John 14:6

‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’