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President, Inauguration Year	Bible & Passage	Quote
Theodore Roosevelt 1905	James 1:22-23	"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." complete passage
William Howard Taft 1909	I Kings 3:9-11	"Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad." complete passage
Woodrow Wilson 1913	Psalm 119	"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord." complete passage
Woodrow Wilson 1917	Privately, not known; publicly, Psalm 46	"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." complete passage
Warren G. Harding 1921	Micah 6:8, Washington Bible	"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
Calvin Coolidge 1925	John 1	"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." complete passage
Herbert C. Hoover 1929	Proverbs 29:18	"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933, 1937, 1941, 1945	I Corinthians 13	"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." complete passage
Harry S. Truman 1945	Closed Bible held in left hand; right hand on upper cover	No quote
Harry S. Truman 1949	Matthew 5:3-11, Exodus 20:3-17	"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." complete passage "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." complete passage

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