It's in 2 Corinthians chapter 3, right after "Don't trusty whitey".

I_C_Weener: It's more of a bootstrappy Poor Richard's saying.

And what luck! That's exactly where it was popularized.

BravadoGT: To put it in a perspective that Farkers would understand: Imagine if the WH was throwing out "Firefly" references despite having never seen the series NOR the movie!

That's it. I'm voting for McCain.

Job 3:12

And the Lord sayeth to His servant Job: Bendeth over and taketh it

If you are quoting it in English, you are misquoting it.

I believe the correct phrasing is "The gourd helps those who help themselves."

But Rich Man:Heaven::Camel:Eye of Needle is still in the Bible, right?

Cool! I don't really want my elected officials to have a slavish knowledge of the Bible.

/Won't get fooled again.

"Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it. "

-- Navin Johnson

Faith without works is dead. Is a better misquoted saying for this scenario.

He didn't misquote the Bible. He attributed something to the Lord that isn't in the Bible.

If I say Hillary Clinton said of the 99%, "let them eat cake," I'm not misquoting her. I'm misquoting Marie Antoinette, not to mention getting the entire context wrong.. As to Mrs. Clinton, I'm just wrong.

if he wanted a good Bible verse then he should refer them to the words in red written in Matthew 25

34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Guess he should have had someone help him with the quote instead of going it alone.

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I believe the correct phrasing is "The gourd shoe helps those who help themselves."

/Fixed to avoid heresy.

Eagerly awaiting some right-winger of national prominence to attribute this to Obama and not his press secretary. Bonus points if they work in a 57 state or teleprompter reference at the same time.

Pro-tip: Leave the Jesus fan fiction quoting to the GOP.

Evil Twin Skippy: The fact that the new testament was written without punctuation for another.

Specifically the Gospel of John, where the lack of punctuation directly led to the Arian heresy and the Council of Nicaea.

The people who handed out all those loaves and fish weren't doing it for free, you know!

Dr. Whoof: Eagerly awaiting some right-winger of national prominence to attribute this to Obama and not his press secretary. Bonus points if they work in a 57 state or teleprompter reference at the same time.

Flag pins, arugula and grey poupon earn billions of points, one for every job lost under Obama according to McCain.

href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6701024/72803578#c72803578">Mugato :
Has the Bible ever been quoted correctly?

Old Testament: We're talking about a translation of a translation of a
collection of ancient documents written in a now dead language, of
which no originals survive, that laid out a code for people who lives
at the end of the Stone Age.

New Testament: We're talking about a translation of a translation of a
collection of stories, that relate to life in the Iron Age, that were
first put into writing several generations after the reported events
occurred.

I mean - how important are accurate quotations in that context?

hillbillypharmacist: I wouldn't be surprised if well over half of Americans thought 'the Lord helps those who help themselves' was in the Bible. Very common mistake.

it sounds like something that the prosperity gospel folks would spout religiously

Evil Twin Skippy: Lost Thought 00: If you are quoting it in English, you are misquoting it.

I once tried to explain to my Fundimantalist now-ex laws about the many difficulties with the notion that the bible is unchanged and unaltered. The fact that the entire old testament was originally written sans vowels for one. The fact that the new testament was written without punctuation for another. And that whole chapter and verse thing? Retcon...

The King James Version is the only true Word of God. A church sign told me so.

The Lord helps those who help themselves, the gummit helps those who don't.

Cat Food Sandwiches: The Lord helps those who help themselves, the gummit helps those who don't.

1/10. You are not even trying today.

If I'm already helping myself, what the hell do I need God for?

So, on an unrelated note, I followed one of the wiki links farther up the thread from the phrase to the article about grace, and the article about grace makes the statement that it's believed to be a gift from god delivered to an undeserving humanity.

How does that get reconciled anyway? God is all-powerful. God makes man. Man is flawed. God loves him anyway even though he doesn't deserve it.

Doesn't that kind of gloss over the fact that "god is a bit of a fark up" is implied in that line of thinking?

I guess "I am god! The almighty screw up!"* doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

* This common phrase does not appear in the Bible.

The government helps those who are already helping themselves...to a large portion of this nation's money.

Am I right? High five somebody...anybody?

kingoomieiii:

Oh, and [Double Obvious]: Right-wing blogs will insist this misquote proves that all democrats are actually muslims who don't care about the jesus

Oh, and [Triple Obvious]: Left wing apologists on Fark will make up something only a boneheaded leftist would say, and pretend it comes from a right-wing source. Too bad the "evil Republican" you fight against is only in your head. But since it IS only in your head...

GO NUTS WITH IT!

I_C_Weener: God helps those who help themselves isn't really a good quote to support the government providing assistance. It's more of a bootstrappy Poor Richard's saying.

It was an admission that Cain is right: "Blame yo' se'f".