Sometimes when I’m leading a new Bible study I’ll start with some variation on a game I like to call “Shakespeare or Scripture?” Let’s play a little bit of it now.

You can find an on-line quiz with these examples and more at Oxford Dictionaries

• “Tell truth, and shame the devil” – King Henry IV
• “Every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge” – Jeremiah 31:30
• “Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?” – Measure for Measure
• “Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.” – Proverbs 23:2
• “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die” – Isaiah 22:13

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