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

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This puts me in my place .

“Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!” (Hebrews 5:12)
 
The best teacher of all .

“The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
 
Great news . . . . . . . . .

" But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God… " (1 Cor 6:11)
 
This goes against the grain of present , Western culture .

" The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." ( 1 Cor 6:13)
 
Sometimes I have to answer “No” to this question , because I easily forget this Real Presence .

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” (1 Cor 6:19)
 
Very encouraging verse .

" “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor 12:9)
 
James 5,9
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
 
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saying .

" The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:3
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NAB notes:
[4:5, 7] Get wisdom: the same Hebrew word “to get” can mean to acquire merchandise and to acquire a wife (18:22; 31:10); both meanings are in keeping with Proverbs’ metaphors of acquiring wisdom over gold and silver and of acquiring wisdom as a personified woman, a wife.
 
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Expresses our need to be renewed each day .

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day .” (2 Cor 4:16)
 
This must have been astounding for the people who first heard it .

“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” (John 8:58)
 
What I need to ask the Father for .

“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”" (Luke 11:13)
 
The reason for hope .

"And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. " (Romans 8:3)
 
I need to reflect on this to stop myself from playing God .

“But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor 6:11)
 
The Source of what so many hunger for . . . . . . hope .

" May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope." (Romans 15:12)
 
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Jer 51:17a Every man is stupid and without knowledge (RSV-2CE)
 
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