Bible Verses Trivia
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99 free Bible Verses trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Everyone half-knows a Bible verse. The line on the war memorial, the reading at the wedding, the cry from the cross, the slogan on a footballer's face paint: they float free of the chapters that hold them, and a few of the most quoted never came from the Bible at all. These 99 questions put them back. Finish famous phrases from the King James text, name the book a verse comes from, say who spoke it and to whom, and untangle the context of passages from the creation story to the epistles and the Apocalypse. Expect some surprises about who actually said what, and which animal lies down with the lamb. It suits a church quiz night, a Sunday-school staff room or a pub round that wants something beyond sport. Play on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it out and read it aloud.
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Q 01Which famous verse follows 'Lord, come and see' as Christ nears the tomb of Lazarus?
Jesus wept
Jesus wept is John 11:35, and soon after Jesus has the stone taken away and calls Lazarus out of the tomb alive.
Q 02Which line opens the verse Tim Tebow wore on his eye black in January 2009?
For God so loved the world
For God so loved the world opens John 3:16, and after Tebow's eye black some 90 million people searched Google for the verse.
Q 03Which word completes 'The Lord is my ___; I shall not want', the opening line of Psalm 23?
shepherd
Shepherd suits the psalm's traditional author, David, who was out keeping his father's sheep when the prophet came to anoint him.
Q 04What does 1 Timothy 6:10 actually call 'the root of all evil'?
the love of money
The love of money is the root in the King James text, not money itself, and it warns that some who coveted it 'pierced themselves through with many sorrows'.
Q 05Which saying first appeared in Butler's 1663 mock-epic Hudibras rather than the Bible?
Spare the rod, spoil the child
Spare the rod, spoil the child is Butler's coinage; the Bible's nearest line says only 'He that spareth his rod hateth his son'.
Q 06Which book's third chapter, 'To every thing there is a season', became Pete Seeger's 'Turn! Turn! Turn!'?
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 supplies every line of the song except the title and the last two, and the Byrds took it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1965. Seeger said he wrote it in 1954.
Q 07In which Tarantino film does hitman Jules Winnfield recite a paraphrased 'Ezekiel 25:17' before shooting?
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction's speech matches Ezekiel 25:17 only at the end: the real verse is one line about vengeance, and the opening sentences are stitched from other biblical phrases.
Q 08Which US agency's headquarters lobby bears 'And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free'?
CIA
The CIA's Old Headquarters Building has John 8:32 engraved on a marble wall at the request of Allen Dulles, the former Director of Central Intelligence. The Langley complex is named for George H. W. Bush.
Q 09Which Senate candidate built an 1858 Springfield speech around 'A house divided against itself cannot stand'?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was quoting Mark 3:25, where Jesus answers the charge that he casts out devils by the prince of devils. The campaign failed against Stephen Douglas but led to the famous debates between them.
Q 10Which Peanuts character recites 'Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings' in A Charlie Brown Christmas?
Linus
Linus recites Luke 2 because Charles Schulz insisted on it, though his producers warned that you couldn't read from the Bible on network television.
Q 11Which command, the first divine words in the Bible, comes in Genesis 1?
Let there be light
Let there be light comes in Genesis 1:3, yet the sun and moon aren't made until the fourth day; the Latin Vulgate renders it 'fiat lux'.
Q 12In the psalm behind Boney M.'s 'Rivers of Babylon', the weeping exiles remember which place?
Zion
Zion is what the exiles weep for in Psalm 137, while their captors demand 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion'.
Q 13Which animal 'shall dwell with the lamb' in the peaceable-kingdom prophecy where 'a little child shall lead them'?
the wolf
The wolf gets the lamb in the King James text, and the very next verse promises that 'the lion shall eat straw like the ox'.
Q 21Which disciple was told 'Get thee behind me, Satan' for objecting to Jesus foretelling his own death?
Peter
Peter: in Matthew 16 the rebuke comes only verses after Jesus tells him 'thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church'.
Q 22When Jesus cried 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?', some bystanders thought he was calling whom?
Elijah
Elijah, Elias in the King James text, was who they heard, and they waited to see 'whether Elias will come to save him'.
Q 23Psalm 119's 176 verses fall into 22 stanzas, one for each letter of which alphabet?
The Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet sets the pattern, which translation can't keep, and the King James Version marks it instead with stanza headings from ALEPH to TAU.
Q 14In which book do the Ten Commandments first appear, delivered at Mount Sinai amid thunder and fire?
Exodus
Exodus 20 gives them first, and soon after Moses smashes those first tablets over the golden calf, so God has him hew two new ones.
Q 15Who asked 'Am I my brother's keeper?' when God asked him where Abel was?
Cain
Cain was sentenced to wander for killing Abel, yet God set a mark on him so no one would kill him, and he went on to build a city.
Q 16Who said 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away' after raiders, fire and wind took his herds and children?
Job
Job lost oxen, asses, sheep and ten children in a single day of arriving messengers, and still 'sinned not, nor charged God foolishly'. His restoration at the end of the book doubles his livestock.
Q 17Which petition follows 'Thy kingdom come' in the Lord's Prayer as Matthew records it?
Thy will be done
Thy will be done follows in Matthew, but the NIV drops that line from Luke's shorter version, noting it only in some manuscripts.
Q 18Which letter Paul wrote in custody holds 'I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me'?
Philippians
Philippians 4:13 was written by a prisoner thanking a church for a gift, which is why its boast sits right after 'I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content'. Philippi lay in Macedonia.
Q 19Which prophet told King David 'Thou art the man' after a parable about a rich man seizing a poor man's one lamb?
Nathan
Nathan's trap closed when David condemned the rich man of the story, unaware he was judging his own taking of Bathsheba from Uriah. The prophet later helped secure the throne for Solomon.
Q 20Which prophet volunteered 'Here am I; send me' after a seraph touched his lips with a live coal from the altar?
Isaiah
Isaiah's commission in chapter 6 follows a vision of the Lord enthroned among six-winged seraphim crying 'Holy, holy, holy', the coal purging the sin of a man of 'unclean lips'. The scene is dated to the year King Uzziah died.
Q 24In which town's synagogue did Jesus quote 'Physician, heal thyself' before the crowd tried to throw him off a hill?
Nazareth
Nazareth was where Jesus had been brought up, and its congregation, told 'no prophet is accepted in his own country', led him to the brow of the hill to cast him down headlong. Luke says he simply passed through them.
Q 25Which coin did Jesus call for before answering 'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's'?
denarius
A denarius with the head of Tiberius is the coin usually assumed, since the Greek calls it a dēnarion, and Jesus asked whose image it bore before answering. Pharisees and Herodians had posed the question to trap him.
Q 26Of what was the woman accused when Jesus said 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone'?
adultery
Adultery 'in the very act' was the charge, and the law of Moses prescribed stoning; the accusers drifted away one by one, eldest first. The whole passage is missing from the oldest Greek manuscripts of John.
Q 27At whose feast did a hand write 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin' on the wall, words Daniel read as the kingdom's doom?
Belshazzar
Belshazzar was slain that very night, after drinking from gold vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem, and Darius the Median took the kingdom.
Q 28To whom did Ruth vow 'Whither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall be my people' on the road from Moab?
Naomi
Naomi was Ruth's widowed mother-in-law, heading home to Bethlehem after losing her husband and both sons; her other daughter-in-law Orpah kissed her and turned back. Ruth's loyalty makes her great-grandmother of David.
Q 29Which boy, sleeping where the ark was kept, answered a night-time call with 'Speak; for thy servant heareth'?
Samuel
Samuel had run to the old priest Eli three times, thinking it was he who called, before Eli realised the Lord was speaking and told the boy how to reply. He grew up to anoint Israel's first two kings.
Q 30Who heard 'Be strong and of a good courage' on taking command after Moses died, with the Jordan still to cross?
Joshua
Joshua, son of Nun, heard the charge from God three times in the book's first chapter, with the promise 'the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest'. He had been one of the two spies who believed the land could be taken.