What’s your favorite Bible verse/chapter? Why?

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Because I have the privilege of reading this at this morning’s Eucharist , and it’s encouraging .

“One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:6)
 
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“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” ( Rev 3:20 )
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My favorite verse is similar. It explains what the Mass, the heavenly banquet, is about.
Matthew 24:28 “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
Unfortunately, the NAB mistranslates eagles, Greek Aetós, as vultures.
The web site below explains why I insist it is eagles.

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I like the painting too.
The Light of the World (1851–53) by William Holman Hunt
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Personally, mine is Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
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That’s a good one. I don’t know what my favourite verse is. I do like John 3:16-17 because it is comforting reminds me of God’s love for everyone and how He is not wanting to condemn us but to save us through Christ. That is why He sent His Son.

Psalm 23 is also a favourite of mine.
 
“Lord to whom shall we go?
You have the words of everlasting life.”

Peter, though not likely fully understanding all that Jesus was saying, stepped forward in an act of faith. That is how I want to answer when Jesus calls.
 
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Because it’s good to know .

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:12)
 
Because it says so much about God’s forgiveness .

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
 
Philippians 2:1-11

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

It’s the most beautiful passage in Scripture, to me.
 
Here are a few:

I love this one because it speaks of the magnitude of God’s mercy:
Psalm 103:10-12
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
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I love this one because it instructs to not worry:
Matthew 6:25-34
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
34 "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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I love this one on prayer because I find great peace in the prayer of silence: closing my eyes and going to my “inner room” within myself to spend time contemplating God
Matthew 6:6
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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I love this one because I love the Jesus Prayer:
Luke 18:10-14
10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.’
13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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This one encourages me whenever I feel like the world is working against me when I try to do the right thing:
John 15:18-19
18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Because it’s simple and direct .

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.
  • Micah 6:8
 
At the moment, I am sitting with this verse:

Proverbs 6:16-19 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

16 There are six things which the Lord hates,
seven which are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and a man who sows discord among brothers.

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Thank God for these words .

"Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. " (John 20:23) .
 
Reminds me that the Gospel means Good News .

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete” (John 15:11)
 
Part of today’s Liturgy of the Word .

“Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:24)
 
Matthew 28:20
.* And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
 
Favourite Bible verse
1 john 4 20-21
20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
 
Today’s Feast of the Transfiguration .

"And a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son; hear him. "
 
The passages that move me the most are short, and require the context around them, sometimes a whole chapter, to get the full effect. Overall, I love the Bread of Life Discourse from John 6, the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5:1 - 8:1, and the account of the Samarian woman at the well. There are also many Psalms.

Having said all that, once I understood that God IS love, (as we’re told by Saint John), I am deeply moved then by Paul’s description of Love, which I now see as the best description of God, and it has become just as important to me as the beatitudes and the commandments for a model of living out my life.

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
On the right day, this can literally bring tears to my eyes, as so much else from the scriptures.
 
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” (Isaiah 55:1)
 
It’s gruesome .

“The dagger went so deep that the handle disappeared beneath the king’s fat. So Ehud did not pull out the dagger, and the king’s bowels emptied.” (Judges 3:22)
 
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