
When you are quoting a passage of Scripture and provide the appropriate reference, do you include the individual verse numbers in the text of the passage? I’ve gone back and forth on this and I’m curious as to what the rest of you do.
Clarification: I include verse numbers in the reference, I’m speaking specifically about when I’m typing out a passage of Scripture that I want them to read without having to look it up.
In other words, do you write this: Matthew 4:12-14 “12 When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 14 to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:”
Or do you write this: Matthew 4:12-14 “When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:”