Readers of a Christian website have identified biblical verses purportedly backing sexism, genocide and the slaughter of sorceresses as the holy book's least endearing parts.
The survey lists the ten verses people would rather had been left out of the Bible in an attempt to show the dangers of quoting scripture selectively.
The online study was conducted by shipoffools.com, a humorous online magazine, reports ‘The Times’.
After receiving more than 1,000 responses, St Paul's advice about whether women are allowed to teach men in church came top of the "Worst Verse" poll.
In 1st Timothy ii, 12, St Paul is quoted thus: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."
Some conservative Christians have used the verse to justify opposition to women priests.
In second place is the order by Samuel, one of the early leaders of the Israelites, for his people to commit genocide: "This is what the Lord Almighty says ... Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'' (1 Samuel xv, 3).
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