What Does the Bible Say About Originality?

Luke 12:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“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.”

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Isaiah 64:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? ...

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? ...

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

John 19:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

John 8:56 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

[[They went each to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ...

John 6:1-71 ESV / 1 helpful vote

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...

John 4:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 11:52 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 1 helpful vote

After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...

Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. ...

Mark 15:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Amos 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape. “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.” The Lord God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt; ...

Daniel 9:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Nehemiah 8:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

34 Bible Verses about Originality

Luke 12:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 64:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 19:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:56 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 6:1-71 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 4:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 11:52 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 15:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Amos 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Daniel 9:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Nehemiah 8:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Originality

Luke 12:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 12:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 64:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 19:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:56 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 6:1-71 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 4:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 11:52 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 15:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Amos 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Daniel 9:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Nehemiah 8:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote