holy scriptures
Divine written teachings
Holy scriptures are religious texts considered sacred and divinely inspired—the authoritative written foundation of a faith.
For Christians, this means the Bible; for Jews, the Torah and Hebrew Bible; for Muslims, the Quran.
The phrase often appears with the definite article: The holy scriptures teach compassion.
Scriptures alone usually suffices in religious contexts.
- Guru Granth SahibSikh sacred scripture
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- deuterocanonicalOf secondary biblical authority
- Bhagavad GitaHindu philosophical dialogue
midrash · Quran · hermeneutics · prayer · exegesis · prophets · doctrine · Torah · gospel truth · codex · Talmud · chapter and verse · parables · worship · sacred texts · psalms · verses · manuscript
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Abraham, God
- Hindu ScripturesVedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana
- LDS ScriptureBook of Mormon, Bible, quad, articles of faith, chapters
- angelsarchangels, Michael, Gabriel, seraphim, archangel
holy scripturesscientific literature
Formal research documentation
legal codes · technical manuals · fiction · academic journals
holy scripturesThe God Delusion
Argument against theistic belief
scientific literature · Das Kapital · The Communist Manifesto · encyclopedias · textbooks