Is That Verse Real?
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AI searches the actual scripture and tells you: is it genuine, misquoted, misattributed, or not in the Bible at all? Side-by-side comparison included.
This is one of the most commonly misattributed "Bible verses." It was actually popularized by Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (1736). The Bible actually teaches the opposite — that God helps the helpless.
Close, but wrong. The actual verse is "For the love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Timothy 6:10, KJV). The word "love" changes the entire meaning — it's not money itself, but the obsession with it.
This phrase is often attributed to scripture but it appears nowhere in the Bible. It was used by John Wesley in a 1778 sermon, but the concept traces back to ancient Hebrew and Babylonian texts.
Despite being widely shared as a Bible verse, this phrase originates from Persian Sufi poetry. Abraham Lincoln popularized it in an 1859 address. The Bible has similar themes of perseverance, but this exact phrase isn't in scripture.
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