What's Your Favorite Verse?

[Christownsme]

What is your favorite verse(s) that mean the most to you right now? They can be a set of verses, or just one.

I'd have to say for me, besides the ones on my signature, right now it is Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.

Talk about a good God, we have One who thinks of us in such a loving way, that He restores us with grace and compassion and justice and blessings.

 

[Yeisu]

Jesus in John 6
63 It is the Spirit who gives life;
the flesh profits nothing. The words
that I speak to you are spirit, and
they are life.

I try my best to live off His words everyday.

 

[Singermom]

Matthew 6:25-34

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

 

[Stephen Kendall]

I have always liked 1 Corinthians chapter 13, but now I see the importance of the Gospel in 1 John C3V11-24.

1 John 3:11-24 (English Standard Version)

Love One Another

11For(A) this is the message that you have heard from the beginning,(B) that we should love one another. 12We should not be like(C) Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him?(D) Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not be surprised, brothers,[a](E) that the world hates you. 14We know that(F) we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15(G) Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that(H) no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16By this we know love, that(I) he laid down his life for us, and(J) we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17But(K) if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet(L) closes his heart against him,(M) how does God’s love abide in him? 18Little children, let us not(N) love in word or talk but in deed and(O) in truth. 19By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21Beloved,(P) if our heart does not condemn us,() we have confidence before God; 22and(R) whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and(S) do what pleases him. 23And this is his commandment,(T) that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and(U) love one another,(V) just as he has commanded us. 24(W) Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[b] and God[c] in him. And(X) by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

I emphasized in blue, the above sentence, that strikes me as very important. Love is a most important part of salvation and the life of a Christian. Without it, we are not part of the children of God or the children of Light. The more that I read the New Testament, the more that I see this in the letters of Paul, James, John and Peter. They knew the Lord and kept emphasizing the importance of loving each other as well as being holy (righteous). It would be extremely hard to be one with the perfect love of God (of Jesus' Gospel) and to be unrighteous or immoral. I would say that true righteousness and high morality comes as a result of obeying the commands of Christ in his Father's Gospel to us. Man, too quickly turns the Gospel into his search of a religious practice or system, ignoring the teachings of Christ. I didn't get saved by the teachings of church doctrines, but by the very personal and loving grace of our Father and his obedient son, Jesus Christ.

Every time that I read the New Testament, I hear God speaking through the early eyewitnesses of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wow and what an enduring message, the one that my soul took in at the beginning! As my interest in Christianity became renewed recently (2001), I saw the zeal of many Christians trying to please God through their church's doctrines and theologies. Mental exercises in these areas aren't coming from faith or by the grace that saved us. I have called others to return to that grace of God through obeying and listening to our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of man and the son of God.
I am always searching the New Testament, nowdays, trying to listen to this message from our Father through Jesus, his disciples and messengers. We need to be open to the Will of God given to us through his grace by the sacrifice of his beloved son Jesus. Instead, people aren't listening or that concerned about the Will of God. They want their seal of approval from God to be a long academic search through their church's choosen theologians and thus a man's determination and letter of credibility. The Holy Spirit is uniquely given and "God stated sufficient" for each one of us as creditable servants to the most high. We are commanded one thing above many, "to love one another". Love means respect to the uniqueness of each other’s relationship with their Father. Today, there are heated debates and resulting statements like "I am right over you" or "you are wrong and lost" given to each other. How is it that we obey the command of love, and yet show disrespect towards each other? Will there be no room in one's heart for the grace of God given to us by the blood of his son, Jesus?

Please stand by the teachings and commands of Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God and son of man; and have love, grace and faith; knowing which one of these will last forever. Abide in life and not in death. They don't mix.
　

 

[Yeisu]

Amen to that. Ive been reborn and made new, and Jesus is the only One responsible for it. His words and teachings alone have changed me, and I try to live everyday by His word which He revealed to us through the gospel. He alone is my Counsler, Savior, and Lord.
Sometimes I think Im unworthy, and thats ok as long I can save a few lives through the gospel, follow His example, and show other people His love He showed for us, Ill be satisfied that I could do some good in the world for the glory of God.

 

[Arturias]

II Chr 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Is there a curse on the United States of America? God spells out very clearly in that verse what it will take for that curse to be replaced with God's blessing.

 

[Yeisu]

It could be the United States or Israel, or I could be wrong on both points lol

 

[Cassidy]

I always loved Galatians 3....that chapter has set me free in so many ways

 

[pcgeek12]

My Favrouite verse is John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.

 

[Maverick1972]

Deut 23:1
If a man's testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.

I'm just kidding.

Eph 2:8 For by Grace Are Ye Saved Through Faith, and That Not of Yourselves, it is the Gift of God.

 

[patience7]

Romans 8:31-39

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. (God that justifieth?) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. NAY, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen!!!!!

 

[Singermom]

A couple of other favorites:

Revelation 21:4

"...He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of splendor;
it is attained by a righteous life.

 

[Yeisu]

Isaiah 9:6

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace

Thank you LORD for Jesus

 

[MinisterTony]

MY favorite verse in entire Scripture is:

Isaiah 61:10


I delight greatly in the LORD;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

 

[Balugon]

One of mine is:

"10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10

 

[Stephen Kendall]

Amen to that. Ive been reborn and made new, and Jesus is the only One responsible for it. His words and teachings alone have changed me, and I try to live everyday by His word which He revealed to us through the gospel. He alone is my Counsler, Savior, and Lord.
Sometimes I think Im unworthy, and thats ok as long I can save a few lives through the gospel, follow His example, and show other people His love He showed for us, Ill be satisfied that I could do some good in the world for the glory of God.

May God bless you brother.

 

[revrobor]

II Chr 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Is there a curse on the United States of America? God spells out very clearly in that verse what it will take for that curse to be replaced with God's blessing.

A great verse but it was given to the nation of Israel not the United States (in spite of what some teachers claim).

 

[ifightdwagons]

John 7:38 "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

When I was first born again I had this, also I have this when I spread the gospel. It allows me to do things that I otherwise couldn't.

 

[mandyangel]

I will Bless the lord at all times;his praises shall continually be in my mouth.my soul shall make her boast in the lord;the humble shall hear thereof,and be glad. O magnify the lord with me,and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the lord and he heard me,and delivered me from all of my fears.
Psalm 34:1-4