Words of God and Jesus Christ
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The Words of God and Jesus Christ is a chronological catalogue of every saying attributed to God in the Old Testament and to Jesus in the New Testament, drawn from the King James Version of the Bible. The 5,393 Old-Testament entries are identified by speaker-attribution heuristics, while the 2,029 New-Testament entries are taken from a red-letter edition and are authoritative. Sayings are arranged in canonical book order from Genesis to Revelation, and within each book by chapter and verse.
▸ Scope and methodology — read first
Jesus (New Testament). Words of Christ are extracted from a red-letter KJV edition that marks every verse spoken by Jesus with { … } braces (present in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Revelation — 2,029 verses). This is the standard, authoritative red-letter corpus; nothing here is guessed.
God (Old Testament). The KJV carries no red-letter markup for Old-Testament divine speech, so the 5,393 Old-Testament entries are identified by speaker-attribution heuristics: a verse is included when the text explicitly attributes speech to God — frames such as “God said,” “the LORD spake … saying,” “Thus saith the LORD,” “saith the LORD,” “Then answered the LORD.” When an introducer frame (a verse ending in “… saying,” or “… and said,”) opens a block of law or prophecy, the following verses are included as continued divine speech until a narrative break (a human actor speaking, or existential narration resuming). Continued-speech verses are marked with a trailing arrow (⟶). This captures whole divine discourses such as the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20), the holiness code (Leviticus 19), and God’s two speeches to Job (Job 38–41).
What this is, and isn’t. This is a high-coverage catalogue of explicitly attributed divine speech. It is not a theologically red-letter Old Testament. In narrative-dialogue chapters (e.g. 1 Samuel 3, the calling of Samuel) the line between the divine call and the human reply is thin, and a few reply clauses may be retained with the call; in Deuteronomy, where Moses retells the law, the boundary between Moses’ mediation and God’s direct word is deliberately left conservative. Use the reference links to read any saying in full context.
Ordering. Sayings are sorted in canonical (Protestant) book order — Genesis through Revelation — and within each book by chapter then verse. This is the conventional narrative timeline of the English Bible and is the working definition of "chronological" used here.
References. Each reference links to the verse in context at Bible Gateway (KJV). Speaker badges: God = Old Testament divine speech; Jesus = New Testament words of Christ.