JOHNNY CASH READS THE BIBLE
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“I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God.”
— Johnny Cash
WHAT IS TRUTH?
In 1970 Cash was invited to perform for President Nixon at the White House. The Administration announced that Cash would perform “Okie from Muskogee,” an anti-antiwar song by Merle Haggard and “Welfare Cadillac,” a racist dog whistle by Guy Drake. Cash refused and performed his prison set (including “What Is Truth”) an inquisitive protest song he likened to Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”
“I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus”
— Johnny Cash
JOHNNY CASH
1932-2003
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Matthew
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Matthew 10:34 (KJV)
Mark
“And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
Mark 3:24-25 (KJV)
Luke
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:32 (KJV)
John
“In the beginning was the Word…”
Acts
“Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.”
Acts 11:16 (KJV)
Romans
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
1 Corinthians
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
1 Corinthians 1:25 (KJV)
2 Corinthians
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)
Galatians
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28 (KJV)
Ephesians
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 (KJV)
Philippians
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Philippians 4:13 (KJV)
Colossians
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”
Colossians 3:1
1 Thessalonians
“Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:5 (KJV)
2 Thessalonians
“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,” 2 Thessalonians 2:9 (KJV)
1 Timothy
For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
-1 Timothy 3:5 (KJV)
2 Timothy
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
-2 Timothy 3: 1-5 (KJV)
Titus
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost…”
-Titus 3:5 (KJV)
Philemon
“That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”
-Philemon 1:6 (KJV)
Hebrews
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
James
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
-James 4:17 (KJV)
1 Peter
“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 4:11 (KJV)
2 Peter
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
2 Peter 2:1 (KJV)
1 John
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
- 1 John 1:8 (KJV)
2 John
“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
-2 John 1:7 (KJV)
3 John
“Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.”
3 John 1:11 (KJV)
Jude
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- Jude 1:4 (KJV)
Revelation
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Revelation 12:11 (KJV)