In the Bible or Not?

Thomas H. Palmer's "Teacher's Manual" (1782-1861) and Frederick Maryat's "The Children of the New Forest" (1792-1848)

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596)

"A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1).

"My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth" (Job 19:20).

John Wesley in his sermon "On Dress" (1791)

John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

Made up

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces" (Matthew 7:6).

Ancient Greek proverb

"But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 'There is no peace,' says my God, 'for the wicked' " (Isaiah 57:20).

"But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge" (Jeremiah 31:30).

William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

United States Declaration of Independence (1776)

Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1711)

Inaccurate summary of I Corinthians 10:13

Aesop's The Fox and the Goat (about 500 B.C.)

Erasmus' Adagia (1508)

"Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard" (Proverbs 13:15 KJV).

Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub" (1704)

"And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire" (Matthew 3:10).