Basic Biblical Passages

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Our Knowledge of God
**I John 2: 3 The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him: 6 whoever claims to abide in him ought to live (just) as he lived. **
Romans 6: 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift (grace) of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 17: 1 When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, 2 just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. 3 Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Psalm 36: 10 For with you is the fountain of life, and in your light we see light.
I Corinthians 3: 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
**Revelation 21:22 I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. 23 The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and to it the kings of the earth will bring their treasure. **
 
Names of God
Exodus 3: 14God replied, “I am who am.” Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.” 15 God spoke further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. "This is my name forever; this is my title for all generations.”
**Exodus 15: The LORD is a warrior, LORD is his name! **
Jeremiah 32: 18 You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; and you repay the fathers’ guilt, even into the lap of their sons who follow them. O God, great and mighty, whose name is LORD of hosts,
Ephesians 3: 4 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, 17 and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
 
God’s Knowledge (All-knowing)
**Sirach 42: 18 He plumbs the depths and penetrates the heart; their innermost being he understands. The Most High possesses all knowledge, and sees from of old the things that are to come: 19 He makes known the past and the future, and reveals the deepest secrets. **20 No understanding does he lack; no single thing escapes him. 21 Perennial is his almighty wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same, 22 With nothing added, nothing taken away; no need of a counselor for him!
Romans 11: 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
Sirach 39: 19 The works of all mankind are present to him; not a thing escapes his eye. 20 His gaze spans all the ages; to him there is nothing unexpected.
Hebrews 4: 13 No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
Daniel 13: 42 But Susanna cried aloud: "O eternal God, you know what is hidden and are aware of all things before they come to be: 43 you know that they have testified falsely against me. Here I am about to die, though I have done none of the things with which these wicked men have charged me."
Psalm 139: 1 LORD, you have probed me, you know me: 2 you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. 3 My travels and my rest you mark; with all my ways you are familiar. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, LORD, you know it all. 5 Behind and before you encircle me and rest your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is beyond me, far too lofty for me to reach.
Psalm 147: 4 Numbers all the stars, calls each of them by name.
 
Dear Mr. Bauer, I don’t know how I managed to miss this thread before. This is such a great blessing. What a wealth of information!

I am going to print these out and use these as a basis for deeper Bible study. Do you happen to use a particular Bible study software? I use the Logos Digital Library System, which has been such a rich source of blessings. I have actually found one of the greatest “commentaries” to be the Catechism! I also use the New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, which is an excellent cross-reference resource. Thank you so much for posting these Scriptural resources.

I wish you and your family a joyous and blessed Thanksgiving, and an Advent season full of many graces!
 
Miss Linda

I want to thank you for your kinds words.

I have started the Basic Biblical Passages with the attributes of God. I followed the order of St. Thomas’ Summa Theologica.

I will post about four or five times a week.

Again, I am grateful for your kind words.

Also, I want you or others to add to these ideas. The more help, the better.

Thanks!
 
Truth
St. John 14: 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
 
**Life **
St. John 14: 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
St. John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be 4 through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; 5 the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Psalm 84: 3 My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
 
Will of God

Romans 12: 2 Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
I Thessalonians 4: 3 This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from immorality, 4 that each of you know how to acquire a wife for himself in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 not to take advantage of or exploit a brother in this matter, for the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you before and solemnly affirmed.
Ephesians 1: 11 In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the one who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, 12 so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.
 
God’s Love
Love and Mercy
**I John 4: 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, **but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
I John 4: 15 Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. 16 We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
St. John 3: 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
Jeremiah 31:1 At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the tribes of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 Thus says the LORD: The people that escaped the sword have found favor in the desert. As Israel comes forward to be given his rest, 3 the LORD appears to him from afar: With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.
Wisdom 11: 23 But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook the sins of men that they may repent. 24 For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned.
Hosea 11: 4 I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I stooped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer.
St. John** 16: 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.**

Romans 5: 8 But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
Revelation 1: 4 John, to the seven churches in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever (and ever). Amen.
 
God’s Justice and Mercy
Deuteronomy 32: 4 The Rock–how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, how just and upright he is!
Romans 11: 22 See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
St. John** 3: 19 And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.**
 
God’s Mercy

Mercy
Isaiah 55: 7 Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.
Psalm 145: 7 They publish the renown of your abounding goodness and joyfully sing of your justice. 8 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love. 9 The LORD is good to all, compassionate to every creature.
Psalm 118: 1 Give thanks to the LORD, who is good, whose love (mercy) endures forever. 2 Let the house of Israel say: God’s love endures forever.
Psalm 136: 1 Praise the LORD, who is so good; God’s love (mercy) endures forever;
II Corinthians 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion (mercy) and God of all encouragement, 4 who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
Exodus 34: 6 Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, 7 continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for their fathers’ wickedness!"
Wisdom 11: 23 But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook the sins of men that they may repent.
 
God’s Forgiveness
Exodus 34: 6 Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, 7 continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for their fathers’ wickedness!"
Psalm 99: 8 O LORD, our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God, though you punished their offenses.
Psalm 103: 1 Bless the LORD, my soul; all my being, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the LORD, my soul; do not forget all the gifts of God, 3 Who pardons all your sins, heals all your ills, 4 Delivers your life from the pit, surrounds you with love and compassion, 5 Fills your days with good things; your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Numbers 14: 18 “The LORD is slow to anger and rich in kindness, forgiving wickedness and crime; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their fathers’ wickedness.”
Micah 7: 18 Who is there like you, the God who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but delights rather in clemency, 19 And will again have compassion on us, treading underfoot our guilt? You will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins; 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and grace to Abraham, As you have sworn to our fathers from days of old.
 
God’s Conditions for Forgiveness
**Psalm 32: 1 Happy the sinner whose fault is removed, whose sin is forgiven. 2 Happy those to whom the LORD imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit. 3 As long as I kept silent, my bones wasted away; I groaned all the day. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength withered as in dry summer heat. Selah 5 Then I declared my sin to you; **my guilt I did not hide. I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah 6 Thus should all your faithful pray in time of distress. Though flood waters threaten, they will never reach them.
Isaiah 55: 7 Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.
Jeremiah 36: 3 Perhaps, when the house of Judah hears all the evil I have in mind to do to them, they will turn back each from his evil way, so that I may forgive their wickedness and their sin.
 
God’s Providence

Providence
Wisdom 14: 3 But your providence, O Father! guides it, for you have furnished even in the sea a road, and through the waves a steady path, 4 Showing that you can save from any danger, so that even one without skill may embark.

Wisdom 8: 1 Indeed, she reaches from end to end mightily and governs all things well.
 
Predestination
Romans 8: 30 And those he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those he justified he also glorified.
Ephesians 1: 4 In Love He destined us for adoption to Himself, in accord with the favor of His will, for te praise of the glory of His grace that He granted us in the beloved.
 
All-powerful and Almighty
St. Luke 1: 36 And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; 37 for nothing will be impossible for God."
Job 42: 2 I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
Wisdom 11: 21 For with you great strength abides always; who can resist the might of your arm? 22 Indeed, before you the whole universe is as a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. 23 But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook the sins of men that they may repent.
Genesis 17: 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said: "I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.”
Wisdom 12: 12 For who can say to you, “What have you done?” or who can oppose your decree? Or when peoples perish, who can challenge you, their maker; or who can come into your presence as vindicator of unjust men? 13 For neither is there any god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned; 14 Nor can any king or prince confront you on behalf of those you have punished.
Wisdom 12: 16 For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. 17 For you show your might when the perfection of your power is disbelieved; and in those who know you, you rebuke temerity.
Sirach 43: 34 Beyond these, many things lie hid; only a few of his works have we seen. 35 It is the LORD who has made all things, and to those who fear him he gives wisdom.
**Sirach 42: 21 Perennial is his almighty wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same, **22 With nothing added, nothing taken away; no need of a counselor for him! 23 How beautiful are all his works! even to the spark and the fleeting vision!
Isaiah 44: 24 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens; when I spread out the earth, who was with me?
Job 27: 11 (1) I will teach you the manner of God’s dealings, and the way of the Almighty I will not conceal. 2 As God lives, who withholds my deserts, the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul, 3 So long as I still have life in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils, 4 My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!
Job 22: 3 Is it of advantage to the Almighty if you are just? Or is it a gain to him if you make your ways perfect?
**Revelation 19: 6 Then I heard something like the sound of a great multitude or the sound of rushing water or mighty peals of thunder, as they said: "Alleluia! The Lord has established his reign, (our) God, the almighty.” **
II Corinthians 6: 17 “…Therefore, come forth from them and be separate," says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”****
 
God is Absolute Happiness

Eternal Beatitude (Blessed or Happiness)
St. Matthew 5: 1When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 He began to teach them, saying: 3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
**I Timothy 6: 13 I charge (you) before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, 14 to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ **15 that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.
 
Absolute Beauty (God is Beautiful)
**Exodus 33: 18 Then Moses said, “Do let me see your glory!” 19 He answered, "I will make all my beauty pass before you, and in your presence I will pronounce my name, ‘LORD’; I **who show favors to whom I will, I who grant mercy to whom I will.
Psalm 27: 4 One thing I ask of the LORD; this I seek: To dwell in the LORD’S house all the days of my life, To gaze on the LORD’S beauty, to visit his temple.
 
Trinity
St. John** 1:In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.**
St. John 1: 14 And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.
St. John 1: 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, 17 because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.
St. John 8: 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.”
St. John** 14: 15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, 17 the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.**
St. John** 15: 26 "When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.”**
I Corinthians 2: 9 But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,” 10 this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.
II Corinthians 13: 13 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with all of you.
St. Matthew 28: 18 Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
 
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