Favorite Bible Passages

[fragmentsofdreams]

What parts of the Bible inspire you?

[fragmentsofdreams]

1 Cor 13

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

[Bulldog]

"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
Jesus said to him, ""You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:34-40)

[fragmentsofdreams]

The best verse in Leviticus:

19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

[Polycarp1]

Great verses!! There are a bunch which speak to me, but I want to post the very first Bible verse I ever learned -- I was three at the time, and my grandmother taught it to me, very sweetly and seriously, and I remember being struck, even that young, by the importance she placed on it:

Romans 8:28

[Treasure the Questions]

:thumbsup: That verse is one of my favourites, too, Polycarp. I'm not sure if I interpret it correctly, even, but in recent years it has helped me to trust that things will work out OK if I keep loving God and working with him as best I can, and to trust God's interpretation of 'OK'. It's helped me to keep going when I was finding the going tough, because experience and hindsight have taught me that it is true.

Karin

[Toney]

Romans 8:28 also is one of my favourites. The spirituality of that verse is amplified by Philippians 2:13:

"For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure."

God gives us the desire and the accomplishment; the Word and the Word made flesh. I have found these two verses to be of great benefit in discerning God's will.

[Christi]

I love Isaiah.....
Here's 58:6-11, NIV:

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cord of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter--
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise on the darkness,
and your night will become like the nooday.
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

AND....

54:10

"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed, "
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

[David Brider]

What parts of the Bible inspire you?
Loads. Right now, Jeremiah 29:11 is one which God is using to deliver me from a very bad depression and a lot of negativity and low self-worth:

"For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future."

I spend so long clinging onto the past, that I need a verse like that to help remind me that God wants me to move forward.

David.

[Toney]

Welcome to CF, David and thanks for posting here in LC.

I'm sure other members join me in praying that God helps you to move forward and to trust in His word.

:pray:

[Treasure the Questions]

Hello David. :wave:
Sorry to hear you are in such a bad place just now. :hug: I hope you can hold on to God and the certainty that God has good plans for you. Remember too that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made"!

God bless

Karin

[David Brider]

Welcome to CF, David and thanks for posting here in LC.

I'm sure other members join me in praying that God helps you to move forward and to trust in His word.

:pray:
Hi, thanks for the welcome, and for the prayers.

God bless you,

David.

[David Brider]

Hello David. :wave:
Sorry to hear you are in such a bad place just now. :hug: I hope you can hold on to God and the certainty that God has good plans for you. Remember too that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made"!

God bless

Karin
Hi there! It's certainly becoming easier day by day to walk forward. I love the way God can throw little surprises at you that remind you how much he loves you. On Monday evening, I met up with one of the elders from my church, and it was he who shared that verse from Jeremiah 29, which just there and then spoke really powerfully into my situation. And then the next morning, I was listening to the radio and one of the speakers mentioned that exact same verse.

God bless you too,

David.

[David Brider]

Hello David. :wave:
Sorry to hear you are in such a bad place just now. :hug: I hope you can hold on to God and the certainty that God has good plans for you. Remember too that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made"!

God bless

Karin
Oh, by the way - love your screen name. Are you a Martyn Joseph fan, by any chance?

Your sig's quite good, too!

David.

[Treasure the Questions]

Oh, by the way - love your screen name. Are you a Martyn Joseph fan, by any chance?

Whatever, makes you think that?:blush: He doesn't have fans - only people who appreciate his music.;) Are you into his music?

Robin Mark's good, too, but rather different.

I'm glad to hear you're making progress, David.:thumbsup:

Karin

[Reader Nilus]

The wonderful song found in 2nd Isaiah Isaiah 55:1-3
"Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Jeff the Finn

[praying]

What parts of the Bible inspire you?

The gospels and the psalms. I love the psalms.

[praying]

Matthew 5

If you can live Mattew 5 then you are living with Christ in you.

[David Brider]

Whatever, makes you think that? He doesn't have fans - only people who appreciate his music. Are you into his music?
Very much so - first saw him about 13 years ago, supporting Beverley Craven, and I think I can reasonably say I've gone on to be more of a fan of his (or even an appreciator of his music) than I am of Ms. Craven. Once he played support to Mike & the Mechanics, and I just stayed for his section of the gig! I love his Full Colour Black & White album, but I don't think there's anything of his that I've heard that I haven't liked. (I must remember to get a copy of his latest album...and I'm still sorely narked that his second Sony album doesn't seem to be available on CD.) I've a great deal of respect for anyone who can stand up there with just an acoustic guitar and keep a room full of people entertained.

Robin Mark's good, too, but rather different.
I only really know his stuff from one of the Mandate albums. Oh, and there's that song of his - I think it's his - that got a fair bit of airplay on Premier, that started off with "It's 5:30am" or whatever. That's actually a good song...IMO. Must check out some more of his stuff.

I'm glad to hear you're making progress, David.
Cheers! God bless,

David.

[fragmentsofdreams]

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

[CaDan]

After my on-the-fly exegesis of John 8:2-11 (based in part on a two year old homily by Fr. George that I remembered), that is now my number 1.

current music: Tom Waits - In the Colosseum

[September]

There are so many, but I really love Psalm 139.

[UberLutheran]

Romans 8:31-39
31 If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
33 Who could bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.[/quote]

Romans 14
But receive him who is weak in faith, not for judging thoughts.
2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats herbs.
3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.
4 Who are you who judge the servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
5 One man esteems one day above another. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore Let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.
14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
16 Then don't let your good be slandered,
17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may build one another up.
20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
21 It is good not to eat meat, drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept in silence through eternal times,
25 but now is revealed, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known to all the nations to obedience of faith;
26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

Psalm 133
1 See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil on the head, That ran down on the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down on the edge of his robes;
3 Like the dew of Hermon, That comes down on the hills of Zion: For there Yahweh gives the blessing, Even life forevermore.

Ecclesiastes 3
1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to seek, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to cast away;
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
8 A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.
9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.
16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
17 I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

[nyj]

Joshua 1:5

[sakamuyo]

How can I stand up before GOD and show proper respect to the high God? Should I bring an armload of offerings topped off with yearling calves?

Would GOD be impressed with thousands of rams, with buckets and barrels of olive oil? Would he be moved if I sacrificed my firstborn child, my precious baby, to cancel my sin?

But he's already made it plain how to live, what to do, what GOD is looking for in men and women. It's quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, And don't take yourself too seriously-- take God seriously. (Micah 6:6-8, MSG)

[oworm]

Its in my sig;)