In the Bible or Not?

Anna Bartlett Warner's hymn, "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know" (1859)

United States Declaration of Independence (1776)

"Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden" (Genesis 4:16).

John Heywood's A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue (1546)

"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?'" (Matthew 20:6)

Aristotle

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

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men" (Matthew 5:13).

"Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye" (Proverbs 7:2).

"They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up" (Hosea 8:7).

"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end" (Psalms 107:27).

John Ray's A Collection of English Proverbs (1670)

"For many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14).

Rewording of "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil" (Jeremiah 13:23).

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

"Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch" (Matthew 15:14).

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

"Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 126:5).

William Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" (1597)

John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)