Bible Verses
A structured collection of 138 Bible passages, organised by theological theme. Each line names the passage and what it is about; a click opens the detailed Socinian reading.
138 passages
| Passage | What it is about |
|---|---|
| Trinity37 | |
| Deuteronomy 6:4 | Shema Israel: the One God is the Father |
| Mark 12:29 | Shema: Jesus confesses the one God |
| John 17:3 | The Father: the only true God |
| John 20:17 | “My God and your God”: The Risen Christ has a God |
| 1 Corinthians 8:6 | One God the Father, one Lord Jesus Christ |
| 1 Timothy 2:5 | One God, one mediator: the man Christ Jesus |
| Ephesians 4:6 | One God and Father of all |
| James 2:19 | You believe that God is one? Even the demons believe that |
| Isaiah 45:5 | I am the LORD, and there is no other |
| Malachi 2:10 | Poses two rhetorical questions whose answer is unambiguous: “Have we not all one…” |
| Isaiah 44:6 | I am the first and the last |
| John 10:29 | “The Father is greater than all” |
| 1 Corinthians 11:3 | God the Head of Christ |
| Revelation 1:1 | The chain of revelation: God gives, Christ receives |
| Revelation 3:12 | Four Times “My God” from the Mouth of the Exalted One |
| Mark 13:32 | ‘Nor the Son’: omniscience reserved to the Father alone |
| Matthew 28:19 | The baptismal command: three names, but no word about essence |
| John 14:28 | “The Father is greater than I”: the comparative against consubstantiality |
| John 10:30 | “I and the Father are one”: Unity of will, not of essence |
| John 5:19 | “The Son can do nothing of his own accord”: the dependence of the Son on the Father |
| Mark 10:18 | “No one is good except God alone”: Jesus distinguishes himself from the one good God |
| John 20:28 | “My Lord and my God”: conferred majesty, not essential deity |
| 1 John 5:20 | “This is the true God”: the Father, not the Son |
| Ephesians 1:17 | “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ”: Christ has a God over him |
| John 5:23 | “… honor the Son, just as they honor the Father”: given, not essential honor |
| Colossians 2:9 | “in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily”: communicated fullness, not… |
| Romans 9:5 | “… who is God over all, blessed forever”: doxology to the Father or praise of the… |
| Hebrews 1:8 | “Your throne, O God”: the anointed king, not the Most High God |
| Hebrews 1:6 | “Let all God’s angels worship him”: commanded, not essential worship |
| John 14:9 | “Whoever sees me sees the Father”: revelation, not consubstantiality |
| 1 John 5:7 | The Comma Johanneum: a late addition, not a proof of the Trinity |
| 1 Timothy 3:16 | “God Manifested in the Flesh”: A Textual Variant and the Sense of a Famous Proof Text |
| Acts 20:28 | “Purchased with his own blood”: the blood of God or the blood of the Son? |
| Philippians 2:9-11 | “therefore God has exalted him”: proof of deity or the exaltation of a man? |
| Titus 2:13 | “The appearing of the glory of the great God”: one person or two? |
| 2 Corinthians 13:13 | The grace, the love, and the fellowship |
| 1 Corinthians 15:28 | “then the Son himself will also be subjected”: the eschatological subordination |
| Pre-existence19 | |
| John 1:1-3 | The Logos: God’s Word, not a second person |
| John 1:10 | “The world was made through him”: First creation or new creation? |
| John 1:14 | “The Word became flesh”: God’s incarnation or the making-known of the Word? |
| John 8:58 | Before Abraham was, I am: priority in the plan of salvation, not eternal pre-cosmic… |
| John 17:5 | Glory with the Father before the world: eternal counsel, not personal pre-existence |
| Colossians 1:15-17 | Image of the invisible God and Firstborn of the new creation |
| Philippians 2:6-7 | Christ hymn, humiliation and exaltation |
| 1 Peter 1:20 | “Foreknown before the foundation of the world”: eternal decree, not personal… |
| Hebrews 1:1-2 | In these last days God has spoken to us by his Son |
| Acts 2:36 | Made Lord and Christ |
| John 6:38 | Came down from heaven to do the Father’s will |
| Galatians 4:4 | “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman…” |
| John 3:13 | No one has ascended into heaven except the Son of Man |
| Romans 1:3-4 | Appointed Son of God in power through the resurrection |
| Acts 13:23 | From David's seed, according to the promise |
| John 16:28 | “I came from the Father and have come into the world”: Mission, not Pre-existence |
| Micah 5:2 | “Whose goings forth have been from everlasting”: ancient Davidic descent or… |
| John 6:62 | “ascending to where he was before”: eternity or rapture? |
| 1 Corinthians 10:4 | “and the Rock was Christ”: presence in the wilderness or type? |
| Atonement25 | |
| Mark 10:45 | Ransom as image of liberation, not penal payment |
| Matthew 26:28 | Covenant blood for forgiveness |
| Luke 23:34 | Prayer for forgiveness at the cross |
| Acts 2:23 | God’s plan, human violence |
| Romans 3:25-26 | Hilastêrion as a Public Sign |
| 2 Corinthians 5:21 | “Made sin for us” — rhetorical, not juridical |
| 1 Peter 2:21-24 | Anaphérein means “to carry away” |
| Hebrews 10:10 | Sanctification through Christ’s Obedience |
| Isaiah 53:5 | Chastisement, not penal satisfaction |
| Romans 5:8-10 | Reconciliation as proof of love, salvation through his life |
| Hebrews 9:22 | “Almost everything” within the covenant frame |
| 1 John 2:2 | Hilasmós as a Term of Effect |
| Galatians 3:13 | “Curse” in Paul’s play on words |
| 1 Peter 1:18-19 | “Redeemed from a futile way of life” |
| Hebrews 9:11-14 | High Priest in the Heavenly Sanctuary |
| 1 John 4:10 | Love as the origin of the sending |
| John 3:16 | Love as Beginning, Eternal Life as Goal |
| Romans 4:25 | Death and resurrection as unity |
| 2 Corinthians 5:19 | “God reconciled the world to himself” — God is the Reconciler, not the Reconciled |
| Colossians 1:20 | “Peace by the blood of his cross”: cosmic concord or penal payment? |
| 1 Timothy 2:6 | “a ransom for all”: metaphor of liberation, not penal payment; universal, not limited |
| Hebrews 2:17 | “a merciful and faithful high priest”: expiation as priestly service, not penal… |
| Ephesians 1:7 | “Redemption through his blood”: forgiveness paid for or given? |
| Hebrews 7:25 | he is able to save to the uttermost, since he always lives to make intercession |
| Hebrews 5:8-9 | obedience learned, made perfect, the source of salvation |
| Original sin12 | |
| Deuteronomy 24:16 | Anchors in Torah law the principle of individual guilt: fathers shall not die for… |
| Romans 5:12 | The locus classicus of the Augustinian doctrine of original sin |
| Ezekiel 18:20 | The most uncompromising prophetic formulation of the principle of individual… |
| John 9:2-3 | The disciples' question “Who sinned, this man or his parents?” mirrors the double… |
| James 1:14-15 | The New Testament key text on the origin of sin — and it describes that origin… |
| 2 Chronicles 25:4 | Records how King Amaziah had the murderers of his father Joash put to death but… |
| Romans 2:6 | Articulates the foundational principle of divine judgment: God repays each person… |
| Psalm 51:7 | “Conceived in sin”: original sin or David’s penitential prayer? |
| 1 Corinthians 15:22 | “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” stands in Paul’s… |
| Ephesians 2:3 | “by nature children of wrath”: inherited guilt or acquired standing? |
| Genesis 8:21 | “The intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth”: original sin or a statement… |
| Jeremiah 31:29-30 | Everyone shall die for his own iniquity |
| Spirit of God11 | |
| Acts 2:17 | Peter’s Pentecost interpretation through Joel 3:1: God himself speaks and says “I…” |
| Genesis 1:2 | “The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” In the Socinian reading, the… |
| Psalm 104:30 | You send forth your Spirit: God’s creative power, not a third person |
| Isaiah 63:10-11 | They grieved his Holy Spirit: covenant earnestness, not third person |
| Luke 1:35 | The angel Gabriel’s answer to Mary’s question how she, a virgin, was to conceive… |
| John 14:26 | Promises the Paraclete — the Helper whom the Father will send in Jesus’ name |
| Romans 8:11 | God's Spirit Will Give Life to Your Mortal Bodies |
| 1 Corinthians 2:11 | “The Spirit of God”: God’s Own Power, Not a Third Person |
| Acts 5:3-4 | “Lied to God”: Is the Holy Spirit a Person? |
| John 16:13 | “he will not speak on his own authority”: Is the Spirit of truth a divine person? |
| 1 Corinthians 12:11 | “…as he wills”: the will of the Spirit or the working of God? |
| Kingdom of God11 | |
| Mark 1:15 | The first public proclamation of Jesus in Mark: four clauses that condense the… |
| Matthew 6:10 | “Your kingdom come” — the kingdom of the Father, not the kingdom of Jesus |
| Luke 17:20-21 | Corrects the Pharisaic expectation that the kingdom of God would arrive as a… |
| Matthew 6:33 | “Seek first the kingdom of God” — kingdom as God’s reign in the heart, not as… |
| 1 Corinthians 15:24 | Christ Hands the Kingdom Over to the Father |
| Daniel 2:44 | The Old Testament root of the Kingdom-of-God message: “The God of heaven will set…” |
| Revelation 11:15 | The eschatological climax of the Kingdom-of-God message: “The kingdom of the…” |
| Matthew 5:5 | “Blessed are the meek”: who inherits the earth? |
| Matthew 5:3 | “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: the kingdom of heaven as eternal life for the… |
| John 18:36 | “My kingdom is not of this world”: where does the reign of Christ come from? |
| Acts 1:6-7 | The disciples’ last question: the kingdom, the times, and the Father’s authority |
| Hell11 | |
| Matthew 10:28 | Fear him who can destroy both soul and body |
| Romans 6:23 | wages of sin, gift of God |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:9 | Eternal destruction as annihilation, not eternal torment |
| Matthew 25:46 | Speaks of “eternal punishment” ( kólasin aiónion ) and “eternal life” ( zoên aiónion… |
| Revelation 20:14 | Supplies the rare biblical self-definition: the lake of fire “is the second death.”… |
| Malachi 3:19 | Malachi 4:1 (Heb |
| Matthew 7:13-14 | “The narrow way that leads to life” |
| 2 Peter 2:6 | Sodom reduced to ashes: the pattern of the judgment upon the ungodly |
| Matthew 5:29-30 | “it is better for you that one of your members perish”: eternal torment or… |
| Revelation 14:11 | “The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever”: eternal torment or final… |
| Mark 9:48 | “where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched”: destruction or eternal… |
| Immortal soul12 | |
| 1 Timothy 6:16 | God alone has immortality |
| Ecclesiastes 9:5 | The dead know nothing |
| Ezekiel 18:4 | Contains the two foundational axioms of Socinian anthropology and soteriology in the… |
| Genesis 2:7 | Describes man as a unity of dust and the breath of life from God: he became a living… |
| Psalm 146:4 | In the Socinian reading horizon, Psalm 146:4 is one of the densest Old Testament… |
| Acts 2:29 | In his Pentecost sermon Peter states what looks like a passing remark but is in fact… |
| John 11:11-14 | Is, for the doctrine of soul-sleep, a decisive self-interpretation of Jesus |
| Psalm 6:6 | “In death there is no remembrance of you”: not a conscious intermediate state, but… |
| Daniel 12:2 | “Those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake”: the sleep of death… |
| Luke 23:43 | “Today you will be with me in paradise”: where does the comma go? |
| 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 | “This mortal must put on immortality”: gift, not natural possession |
| Genesis 3:19 | “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return”: the verdict upon the whole man |