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noun

Scripture n.

Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription. "I have put it in scripture and in remembrance." "Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin."

The books of the Old and the New Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural. "There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it." "Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity."

A passage from the Bible; a text. "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." "Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scripture" Quotes from Famous Books

... my young women's scripture-class at a quarter-past eight; but if you will let me run away ...

— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

... progress of civilisation. They fancy, no doubt, that they are vindicating the energies of Nature herself, and the inevitable necessity of "doing evil that good may come." But Dante in so doing violated the Scripture he professed to revere; and men must not assume to themselves that final knowledge of results, which is the only warrant of the privilege, and the possession of which is to be arrogated by no earthly wisdom. One calm ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt

... uttered a syllable while Jim sat and talked to him. The latter knew better than to return to the topic which had so startled the prisoner a week ago, and contented himself with mere kindly talk and the reading of a short passage of Scripture. All this Tom suffered without interruption, stirring neither head ...

— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed

... I'm loosed of all things that belong to the world. And now I feel fur wearin' the plain dress, fur that's according to Scripture, which ...

— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin

... Paul, "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution," 2 Tim. 3:12, possibly, said I, these protestants may be calumniated on the very ground of their religion being more in accordance with the Gospel. Many other passages of Scripture presented themselves to my mind, which led me to believe that this supposition might be correct. I therefore determined to lose no opportunity of clearing ...

— The Village in the Mountains; Conversion of Peter Bayssiere; and History of a Bible • Anonymous

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