How to Use New Testament in a Sentence

New Testament

noun
  • For the first time ever, the entire New Testament of the Bible will be spoken aloud word for word, by memory, on stage.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • An examination of how New Testament prophecies shape the world today.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In Germany, Luther’s New Testament was a catalyst for making the Saxon dialect the linguistic default, at least on the page.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The story arc of the littlest stars' journey travels from dark to light, mirroring the Bible's New Testament story of Jesus' birth that offered new life to a world struggling in despair.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Those who criticize the shroud’s legitimacy point to 1 Corinthians, one of the many New Testament books the apostle Paul is credited with writing.
    — Mike Fillon, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But thanks to the scarcity of parchment a couple of hundred years later in the region, that parchment was reused, mostly erasing the original translation of the Biblical New Testament.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The story of Salome originated in the Bible’s New Testament and was later interpreted over many centuries in paintings, poems, books, plays and operas.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Three years after that, William Tyndale published his New Testament translation from the original Greek into English.
    — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • The next year, a French humanist and religious reformer named Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and his associates produced a New Testament in French.
    — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • The canonical Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life included in the Bible’s New Testament, make no mention of those animals welcoming the newborn.
    — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • How was the process of creating dynamic dialogues with philosophical, political and New Testament references that would be accessible to a large audience?
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Given that Quisling came from a family with four generations of clergymen, his conversations with Olsen provide fascinating philosophical duels in New Testament understanding.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Yii-Jan Lin, a professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and author of the book Immigration and Apocalypse, views the video as a calculated provocation.
    — Jason Derose, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • Originally, Bell voiced Mary Magdalene for The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a New Testament audiobook released in 2010.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025

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