What is your favorite bible verse?
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Anonymous
| Mine is Jeremiah "God has a plan for you" 29:11 |
Anonymous
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Matthew 5:44. 43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
1 Corinthians. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charit |
Anonymous
| Jeremiah 9:23-24: "Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” |
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Micah 6:8King James Version (KJV) 8 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? or RSV, for those who prefer it: He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a] and to walk humbly with your God? |
Anonymous
| James 19-20: My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. |
Anonymous
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Using this one a lot for my anxious DD these daughters, and I need the daily reminder too!
1 Peter 5:7: "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." |
Anonymous
| *these days, not these daughters |
Anonymous
Same. I especially love it sung in the hymn "We Are Called"! |
Anonymous
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Minister here. I have lots of favorites. But my very favorite is, in my humble opinion, the most important -
John 13:34-35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Love one another. That's the entirety of the teachings of Jesus in three words. (And of the spiritual leaders of all faiths.). Just love each other - Not only the people who look like you, talk like you, dress like you, love like you, worship like you.... We are called to love every single person on this planet, even those who can be difficult to love. When you love others, you are loving God. |
Anonymous
Not to derail the thread, but this is not accurate. Christ did command us to love one another, and we indeed are to love one another. But that is nowhere near the "entirety" of the teachings of Jesus. Jesus more fully stated his commandment to love one another in Matthew 22:37-39: "Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself." His first teaching is to love God, and from there, you will love all others. In addition to loving others, we are also to love God with all our hearts, souls and minds. Do we do that? No, we do not. Do we love others always? No we do not. So we are all guilty of breaking these commandments. This was, in part, what Jesus was trying to show us, that we are sinful and need a Messiah, who He revealed Himself to be. This is more the entirety of His teaching. Look! This is the most famous Bible verse of all! Jesus taught that He was the Messiah, come to save mankind from his sins, and that belief in Him is what saves us from Hell. John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Why would perishing be brought up if it weren't a surety without Him? (Though there is scholarly disagreement on whether this verse is an actual quote or a statement from John, it in either case is an accurate summation of Jesus's dialogue with the Jewish leader Nicodemus in John 3:1-15. You can look it up.) Jesus also taught that believing in Him is the "work" that God require of us. John 6:28-29: "They asked (Jesus), 'What must we be doing to do the works God requires?' And Jesus answered, 'The work of God is this: To believe in the one He has sent,' that is, Jesus. Jesus further taught that being born again was a necessity to spend eternity with God, in John 3:3: "Very truly I say to you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless they are born again." Being born again is believing in Christ as your Savior, not just loving others. And Jesus taught again that we all sin and are in danger of spiritual death without Him in John 8:24: "And (Jesus) said unto them, 'You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I Am, you shall die in your sins." I Am is a name that God reveals for Himself in the Old Testament. We must not only believe in Jesus as a good teacher who exhorted us to love one another, but that is God himself. These are lots of good Bible verses to have as favorites. And they all add up to more than ENTIRELY teaching us to love one another. Jesus revealed Himself of the Savior of mankind, in whom we can put our trust to save us from our sins, whose righteousness exceeds ours and in whom we can rely to forgive us when we all inevitably DON'T love God or others, as not a single one of us does always, in spite of God's commandments. Last, Jesus also taught us that He is the revelation of the character of God, and that He is a kind and gracious God, not a tyrannical taskmaster. Matthew 11:28-30: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Christ's love and sacrifice for us, and His reality as the God of creation, is so awesome. It's a shame to miss out on the wonder of this by believing that He only -- not that this is a minor thing, but it is not the only thing -- came to tell us to love each other. |
Anonymous
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"Not to derail the thread" means "I will now derail the thread".
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Anonymous
I will make an edit then... "I realize this will derail the thread, but this is not accurate." I like my Bible. I do not like it misrepresented, as the thread I responded to did. |
Anonymous
Yep. I'm the minister who simply shared her favorite verse and her reasons for loving it. In response I will simply say this - When you love others, you are loving God. Your Christ said whatever you do to others, you do to me. Like Jesus, we are a part of God. If you love others, you are loving God. It is impossible to separate the two. It would be like loving the waves but hating the ocean. The waves are a part of the ocean. We are a part of our creator. And we are a part of each other. When I look at another human, I Am looking at God. The separation you see is an illusion. So yes, evangelical poster, "Love one another" sums up the entirety of the message of Christ. |
Anonymous
| "God is Love." |
Anonymous
I do not think you are right. God is holy and perfect. I am not. God created me. He stands above His creation. I am subject to death and decay, and it is only by trusting in Christ as God that I am saved from that. Jesus Himself separated Himself from His creation in the passage in John 8 that I quoted above, where he said that He is from above and his interlocutors are from below. I am sincerely interested: Could you please offer a commentary, in light of your above statement, on John 8, wherein Christ tells the religious leaders who are seeking to kill him that they are of their father, the Devil (John 8:44)? If we are all one, why would Christ say that? Chris undoubtedly loved even these leaders who wanted Him dead, but he didn't mince words about what was wrong with them. What you are suggesting is that mankind is part of God. But mankind is capable of extreme ugliness, cruelty and brutality. To make that a part of God is to bring God lower than He is. I, for one, am glad to worship a God who is above mankind, but loves mankind nevertheless. |