What's Your Favorite Scripture Verse?

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   fierycjposted 13 years ago

   I have a whole bunch of them, so here I'm gonna say you're allowed to post as many as you like (from any Holy book, except the Satanic Bible, obviously) . Here's one of mine..."And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me." Isaiah 63:5

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      mohitmisraposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      "The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered" krishna- Bhagwat Gita
      
      "I am thy shield and thy exceedingly great reward" Holy Bible
      
      "Unto Allah is your return and he is able to do all things" Holy Quran.
      
      
      So many more fierycj.

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         fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Sure, Mohit. Nice verses there, my man.

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         fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Sure, Mohit. Nice verses there, my man.

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         mohitmisraposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         "Seven breaths of one pointed concentration will get you enlightened. " Patanjali Yoga Sutras
         
         "Behold but one in all things, It is the second that leads you astray" Kabir.-The Dohas of Kabir
         
         "One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, he is a wise man." Holy Bhagwat Gita
         
         This one I dont think is from a book but is a classic.
         "in three words I think I summon everything I have learned about life: it goes on." Robert Frost.

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      ellie1142545posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      My favorite is John 3:16....The very first verse I ever learned by heart, and it still holds true today....

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   dennisemattposted 13 years ago

   sorry, my bible is not handy and its been a while since i had stuff memorized. BUT, I love Song of Solomen..the whole thing...and any scripture relating to the fact that god can make good of any situation...(im not really stalking you, you just start ineresting threads)ill have to go get my bible so i can say wich scripture specifically..

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      fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      and I was hoping you were stalking me, lol. Humph, tough luck.

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   badcompany99posted 13 years ago

   The 23rd Psalm for me, especially these 3 verses.
   
   "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
   He leadeth me beside the still waters.
   He restoreth my soul"

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      fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Psalm 23 is a classic. First passage I ever memorized. Nice reminder, Badcompany.

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   dennisemattposted 13 years ago

   all i can find is my dictionary...but i also love the descritpion of what a wife should be. proverbs i think...i may jsut be setting myself up for trouble here, but its just my opinion and Im allowed to have it..but that description is exactly what ive always wanted to be. a wife.

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      fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Proverbs 31. Its called The Virtuous Woman Passage. If thats what you want to be, then its a wonder you haven't been snatched up already. No kidding.

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         dennisemattposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         thank you, that is what I meant, and Ive been happily snatched up for the past 10 years. 

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            fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Would have been a wonder.

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            fierycjposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Would have been a wonder.

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   Paragliderposted 13 years ago

   "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
   A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread---and Thou
   Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
   Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
   
   And don't tell me the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam isn't scripture!

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   \Brenda Scullyposted 13 years ago

   Proverbs 10;22
     A blessing from the lord that is what makes rich, and he adds no pain with it....
   
   
   Ruth 2;12  The Lord will reward you for all the good things you have done.  You will be paid in full bY The Lord God of Israel. you have come to him for safety and he will protect you...

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      dennisemattposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      OH YEAH!! I love Ruth too!! and I love the scriptures my kids have been learning. I love hearing thier tiny little voices recite them with such conviction. Now, if only I could find a church that I liked...

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   spiderpamposted 13 years ago

   Just one?, Ok.
   John 14:27
   "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful."
   There is a song called "A Blessing", that uses this verse.

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   Christa Dovelposted 13 years ago

   One of my favorites:
   
   God is not a man, that He should lie,
   Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
   Has he not said, and will He not do?
   Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
   
   -Numbers 23:19

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      Lady_Eposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Nice one Christa, Love to use this one when claiming a promise of God.

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      Eaglekiwiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Oh so glad you posted that one Christa ,cuz thats one of my fav's ,but could not remember the scripture.
      
      By the way CJ ,great thread ,positive ! heads up

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   DoodleLynposted 13 years ago

   My favorite...hmm.  There are so many I love.  I guess, right now, I would say Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."  Pretty much says it all.

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    frogpatchposted 13 years ago

    I believe it is Proverbs 3 4-5
    
    Trust in the Lord
    Lean not upon your own understanding,
    Acknowledge Him in all your ways,
    And He will direct your path.
    
    I have been reciting that one almost everyday for years!

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    RedElfposted 13 years ago

    Song of Solomon

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    Tom Cornettposted 13 years ago

    "It is God's will that all be saved."

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    Make Moneyposted 13 years ago

    What's Your Favorite Scripture Verse?
    
    The most important message in the Bible.
    
    John 6:54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

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    sandra rinckposted 13 years ago

    1 John 4:8 and 1John 4:18
    
    God is love and perfect love caste out fear.

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       mohitmisraposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Sweet.

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    Lady Guinevereposted 13 years ago

    Not my top favorite but one that needs to be shared:
    
    Ecclesiastes 1
    9 What [is] that which hath been? it [is] that which is, and what [is] that which hath been done? it [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.
    
    10 There is a thing of which [one] saith: `See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

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    viryaboposted 13 years ago

    "The Lord bless me and keep me
    The Lord make his face to shine upon me and be gracious unto me"
    I recite this all the time.

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    viryaboposted 13 years ago

    "God is good, God is truth, God is beauty, Praise Him"

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    onthewritesideposted 13 years ago

    Genesis 6 verse 7:
    
    So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

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       Lady_Eposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Favourite?

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          onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Yep.  With all of the idiocy going on in the world right now, we could probably use another cleansing too.

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             Lady_Eposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             I think everyone just needs a bit more knowledge. That would eradicate a lot of idiocy.

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                onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                You said it!  Of course I'm sure we would disagree on what that "knowledge" would entail...

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       Lady Guinevereposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       This is about the Flood, I presuume?  All things did not die in that flood.  Think about all the things that lived in the waters that supposedly rose above the land.

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          onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          You're right...all things didn't die, including mankind, and anything else "in Noah's proverbial Ark".  I still like the idea of a "cleansing" though! 

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             Lady_Eposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Total wipe out..........  Mmmmh.

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                onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                Naaaa....just a cleansing...

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                   Lady_Eposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   Actually, I see where your coming from now. Doh! (My brain goes to slow motion after I've had a big meal).
                   
                   Cleansing is more appropriate. The world is going a bit Crazy.

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                      onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      

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    Inspirepubposted 13 years ago

    "Judge not lest ye be judged"
    
    And 1 Corinthians 13: "... these things abide, faith hope and love, and the greatest of these is love ..."
    
    Jenny

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    1weddingsourceposted 13 years ago

    John 3:16 "For God so Love the World, He gave his only begotten Son".
    
    A sacrifice to save the world from sins.

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       onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Every time I see John 3:16, I feel like I'm watching a football game...

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    Lor's Storiesposted 13 years ago

    I think I may have to say simply: "God is Love."
    We blame God for bad things, but I believe God loves those more when they are in trouble.
    We are always in a battle between good and bad.
    If those living in the First Century believed that God is all  love, we in the twenty-first century should also believe that God Is Love.
    
    But first we must try and love first.
    
    Lorrie Mac Gregor

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    SparklingJewelposted 13 years ago

    Luke 11:33-35   in part     ...The light of the body is the eye: Therefore when thy eye is single, they whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness...

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    Sanctus Vesaniaposted 13 years ago

    Isaiah 45:7 - 7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
    
    Job 26:13 - 13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
    
    Gospel of Thomas 114: 1-3
    (1) Simon Peter said to them: "Let Mary go away from us, for women are not worthy of life."
    (2) Jesus said: "Look, I will draw her in so as to make her male,
    so that she too may become a living male spirit, similar to you."
    (3) (But I say to you): "Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."
    
    (Okay, I just like the last one because it's so lulzy.)

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    Leta Sposted 13 years ago

    I'm coming to this late...but I'm just really curious, Sanctus, what your actual take on those passages might be, other than what most reasonable people would see as obvious.

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       onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       The way I read those quotes is that God not only created Evil but also Jeebus apparently agrees with his Diciples that women are nothing but skanks until he turns them into men.
       
       WOW...sounds like my kind of religion!  NOT....

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          sandra rinckposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Really cuz to me it sounds like Jeebus really gave it to her.
          
          The whole, when two become one bit... if you catch my drift.

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             Leta Sposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Well, I'm actually reading it like the Apollonian idea of perfection--the beginning of an androgynous sense of it...  In that (and moms, don't hate me!  Just theory from women's history, etc.) women's life was dominated by childbirth, etc. (Back then they barely made it to 30 and died giving birth a LOT.)  So that literally, and physically, they didn't have time for enlightenment.  So that these passages are actually seeking those 'rights' for women.
             
             Just a thought--other than the obvious--that they were all a bunch of misogynists!  ...Sandra's on to something, I think...But Sanctus seems to study this stuff, so I thought I'd ask.

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                onthewritesideposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                If you can find a Christian that would even half-heartedly acknowledge the sacred feminine, more power to ya, Jewels!  But I feel ya...

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    Sanctus Vesaniaposted 13 years ago

    To me it sounds like a verse that people would use to defend female to male sex changes.
    
    "BUT IT'S IN DA BIBLE! D:"  "IT'S IN THE SUPER SECRET SPECIAL BIBLE!  D:"
    
    I know I've read that certain sects of Gnosticism see women as evil, because according to them, it was a female that created the demiurge (architect) 'Yaldabaoth' (The Christian God of the Old Testament.)
    
    So, Gnosticism, just like Christianity blames women for the downfall of everything.   Women's only salvation is if they get sex changes.
    
    ...

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    usmanali81posted 13 years ago

    Qur'an, Ch 2-THE COW, V 255: Allah. There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).

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    iyoung03posted 13 years ago

    Good threat!
    
    It's hard to pick just one.  Some of my top faves in no particular order are:
    
    "I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me..."
                                                      - Nehemiah 2:18a
    
    "6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
                                                         1 Peter 5:6-7
    
    Romans 5:1-11 is one of my favorite passages to read right now.

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    Onusonusposted 13 years ago

    Isaiah 2:2-3, And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exhalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
         And many people shall go and say, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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    SirDentposted 13 years ago

    Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
    
    1Jn 3:16  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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    curiozitiesposted 13 years ago

    1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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    spiderpamposted 13 years ago

    II Timothy 3:1-5,7 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
    
    "For anyone who has watched television, read a newspaper, lost a retirement to corporate greed and corruption, or just walked outside their front door, it is obvious this prophecy has been fulfilled by our generation.  Our leaders are often corrupt; our cities are filled with crime, brutality, and neon signs proclaiming our sinful, godless nature.  The New Age Movement brings in increasing numbers of mystics who claim to be the enlightened ones.  They are some of the most educated and influential people in our societies, and yet the most lacking in real truth."
    I found this and it seems to define the times.

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    AsherKadeposted 13 years ago

    Matthew 6:31.
    I am a worry-wart.

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    susanafeposted 13 years ago

    Psalm 4:9 - "In peace I shall both lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me secure."
    
    Psalm 56:4 - "when I am afraid, in you I place my trust."
    
    John 10:11 - "I am the Good Shepherd.  A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
    
    1 John 1:9 - "If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and clease us from every wrong doing."

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    lrohnerposted 13 years ago

    The one where God tells me Quizno's is on sale. 

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       Staci-Barbo7posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Tsk, gluttony? When tempted, I try to recall that He will not place upon me more than I can bear.

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    Drew Breezzyposted 13 years ago

    "Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [Matthew 6:34]"

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