Introduction:
The New Testament, comprising the latter part of the Christian Bible, is a treasure trove of wisdom, guidance, and inspiration. It stands as a testament to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the early Christian community, offering profound insights into matters of faith, morality, and spirituality. Within its pages, one finds a collection of narratives, letters, and teachings that continue to shape the beliefs and practices of millions around the globe.
As believers seek guidance, encouragement, and enlightenment, the New Testament serves as a timeless source of truth and comfort. Its verses resonate across cultures and generations, offering solace in times of trial, strength in moments of weakness, and hope in the face of adversity. From the profound teachings of Jesus to the letters of the apostles, the New Testament provides a blueprint for living a life rooted in faith, love, and compassion.
Below, you will find a selection of New Testament quotes that encapsulate its timeless wisdom and profound truths. Feel free to copy them, incorporate them into your daily reflections, or embellish them with creative designs to share their enduring message with others.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Tony Campolo
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them. Susan Hill
Everything that I was reading the New Testament – everything was applicable to daily life – trials and stuff I was going through, everything matched up. Rich Froning Jr.
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. John Nelson Darby
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day. Jerry Falwell
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. Ziggy Marley
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience. Edward McKendree Bounds
My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. Max Lucado
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with. Adoniram Judson
In the New Testament, Jesus talks more about stewardship and finances and management of your life than anything else outside the love of God. Paula White
I think that ultimately the Christian vision of sexuality – the New Testament vision – is not compatible with same-sex marriage. And I don’t see a way to change that without entering into a kind of deception, basically. Ross Douthat
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Philip Yancey
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas Paine
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves’ fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it. Geraldine Brooks
As a species, we’ve always been interested in what happens when we’re no longer around, all the way back to ‘Revelations’ in ‘The New Testament.’ Brad Anderson
‘Walking the Bible’ describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Bruce Feiler
Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament. Henry B. Eyring
The definition of a Church is crystal clear in the New Testament. We see the picture of it. They came together the first day of the week. They worshiped the Lord, they prayed… It was fellowship and it was the breaking of bread in the Lord’s supper. John MacArthur
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament. Elaine Pagels
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies. Robert Jeffress
Being filled with the Spirit is shown to have had a dynamic and energizing effect or power in the New Testament and in the lives of millions of people since then. Reinhard Bonnke
Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels. Jay Parini
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Kevin DeYoung
There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ‘If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.’ Ray Charles
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam’s sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn’t exist. Richard Dawkins
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. Ray Bradbury
It’s kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I’m a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there? Randall Terry
Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original. Adoniram Judson
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. Hans Urs von Balthasar
The ‘New Testament’, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine. Terry Pratchett
The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also ‘the word became flesh, and dwells among us.’ Philip Schaff
I didn’t write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. N. T. Wright
Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals. John Shelby Spong
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus. Lysander Spooner
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. Josh McDowell
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It’s almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren’t that interested in whether Jesus was real. Richard Dawkins
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. Jimmy Carter
It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur’an is with the Old Testament – against which it holds its own. Sebastian Faulks
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. Adam Clarke
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing. Jimmy Carter
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. Lysander Spooner
That’s what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling. Naveen Andrews
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place. Josh McDowell
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. Reza Aslan
There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you. Tim Kaine
Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith. Anthea Butler
There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges. Tony Campolo
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. Lionel Blue
As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself. Julius Wellhausen
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them. Francis Chan
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. Joseph Butler
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. John Clayton
I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus’ place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction. Bob Riley
I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament. Mike Leach
If there is anyone who’s living the work of the New Testament, it’s the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. Anna Quindlen
There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don’t see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don’t think he would have liked at all. Elaine Pagels
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? John Clayton
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. Noah Webster
As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation – the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ. Lewis B. Smedes
Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter’s stands at their head. John Strachan
I was raised in Hawaii in what I call a ‘faith-inclusive’ family. I never felt I had to choose loyalty to the New Testament over the Bhagavad Gita. It really wasn’t until my late teens that I became aware of the ugly concept of sectarianism. Tulsi Gabbard
It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off. George Muller
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion. Adoniram Judson
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way. Kevin DeYoung
I don’t have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they’re practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. Anna Quindlen
A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man. Orson Pratt
Would you take anybody’s views on Christianity seriously if they hadn’t read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn’t. So I read the Koran. Sebastian Gorka
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. John Gresham Machen
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference. David Jeremiah
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament. Daniel Everett
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. Bono
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. Thomas Erskine
The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us. Miroslav Volf
The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins. Frederica Mathewes-Green
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. Lionel Blue
The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy. Billy Graham
Once we truly grasp the message of the ‘New Testament’, it is impossible to read the ‘Old Testament’ again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. Michael Horton
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New. Randall Terry
I don’t believe in a personal God, no. And I don’t believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. Melvyn Bragg
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricoeur
The New Testament doesn’t present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because… he was a single man. John Ortberg
The New Testament is not a historical document. Reza Aslan
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. Tony Campolo
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times. Philip Schaff
The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen. Andrew Forrest
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. Maya Angelou
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. Reza Aslan
The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation. John Wycliffe
Sophia – a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament – was clearly once a household name and a fixture in everyday lives. Bettany Hughes
