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Bible Verses About Old Testament Epigrapha

Early Christian writers treated the Old Testament as holy Scripture and used it to explain Christ, teach the church, and answer heresies. Writers like Barnabas, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Novatian, Tertullian, and Archelaus regularly appealed to Moses, the Prophets, the Psalms, and other books as writings that point to Jesus.

Some also spoke more broadly about certain extra books, especially Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Maccabees, and in a few cases apocryphal works, but the pattern is mixed and not uniform across all authors. The strongest evidence is for a high view of the Old Testament itself and for Christ-centered reading of it, while direct support for every later epigrapha title is thinner and sometimes only indirect.

A few cards are clearly about false or forged writings, which shows early Christians also warned against apocrypha that claimed false authority.

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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

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The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

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And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

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These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

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Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

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Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

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Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

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(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

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Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

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And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

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Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

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(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

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Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

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Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

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For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

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And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

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And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

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And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

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