How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. However, note that when you have a text in a block, the punctuation closes out the block with the reference without punctuation following. The exclamation point stays, and the period is placed after the close parenthesis. Notice in the Genesis verse that I had to add the open and close quotation marks around the entire verse, which means I had to put single quotations marks around Abraham’s words. “And Abraham said to God, ‘If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!’” (Genesis 17:18 NIV). “Who has a claim against me that I must pay?” (Job 41:11 NIV). If your verse ends in a question mark or exclamation point, put that inside the close quote and put a period after the close parenthesis. “In the beginning the Word already existed” (John 1:1 NLT). Notice in the following example that there is no punctuation at the end of the verse itself instead, the period follows the close parenthesis of the reference.
The style for typing a verse within the text of a manuscript is generally quotation followed by punctuation. In addition to the quotation marks noted in Part 1, watch for other types of punctuation. Here are 6 more guidelines when quoting (and then copyediting) material from the Bible. Editors need to be sticklers when it comes to sacred texts (and indeed, with any quoted material). As noted in Part 1 of this topic, quoting material from the Bible (and indeed any source) can be tricky.
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