What are your favorite books/verses?

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I read Genisis through. It was great! Psalms is inspirational and loaded with prophecies.

Tobit was my favorite of the apocrypha. The next best is a toss up between Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. Sirach seemed more edgy than Wisdom, with subtle sarcasm in some place.

I’ve read more of the NT than anything else. I think Matthew is the most detailed of the Gospels. Luke is neat because it starts off talking about the parents of John the Baptist. Jude is short, but warns us of false teachers. Verse 9 gives us the words we are to use against spiritual enemies. “The Lord rebukes you”.

Hebrews 10:31 is one I like a lot.

What do you like?
 
I’ve been trying to find out more about Jude 1:9, and the story behind the fight over the body of Moses.
 
I love the call of Isaiah, in the 6th chapter, when he talks about the “Lord…high & lifted up”…I can almost see it…
 
Hi all!

When I’m feeling down, when the bad craziness here gets particularly acute, I like to read Isaiah 65:17-25.

I love Ecclesiastes. It’s moody & brooding. There is so much in it; if I figure out even 10% of it in this lifetime, I’ll have done very, very well for myself.

I have a problem with my temper & think about Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools
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often.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says:
He has made every thing beautiful in its time; He has also set the world in their heart…
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If we see ugliness in the world it is because we have made it so. Ditto for people. We have this uncanny knack for blighting the beauty with which God made both us and the world.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 says:
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
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🙂

Be well!

ssv 👋
 
At the moment, it’s Wisdom 7:24-30

**"For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth everywhere, by reason of her purity.

For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.

For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God’s majesty, and the image of his goodness.

And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.

For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.

For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom."**
 
Well, my very favorite Psalm is the 120th (although I must admit to liking the KJV translation of it best).

My favorite verses from the NT are Matthew 11:28-30

Come to me, all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will
refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me,
because I am meet, and humble of heart: and you shall
find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my
burden light.

Lovely…
 
Chris LaRock:
Hebrews 10:31 is one I like a lot.

What do you like?
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Hebrews 10:31! Me too! And don’t forget Hebrews 12:29!

I’ll spare you the list of my 439 other favorite verses!
 
I seem to remember some verse in Sirach that compares a fool to a castrated man. Made me chuckle! 😃

Proverbs 1:7
 
I love Psalm 139 about how much God loves us and knows us.

I also love John 6 because of the beauty of the Eucharist revealed there.

All of Paul’s epistles really speak to me because he writes of struggles we all encounter in our own spiritual lives and in trying to relate to others.

Too many to list!
 
It was Proverbs 31:6,7

“Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
and wine to those in bitter distress;
let them drink and forget their poverty,
and remember their misery no more.”

But I can’t remember what my misery was now so I don’t drink anymore. :rotfl:
 
Mine is - whenever I can prayerfully open The word, and hear the Voice of The Father , in The HolySpirit …always a bit surprised …-" My Lord - it is You …" and I need to be at Your feet ( again !)
 
Eileen T:
It was Proverbs 31:6,7

“Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
and wine to those in bitter distress;
let them drink and forget their poverty,
and remember their misery no more.”

But I can’t remember what my misery was now so I don’t drink anymore. :rotfl:
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Proverbs is filled with a lot of scriptural gems. I was putting scriptures onto index cards and Proverbs took up quite a few. Sirach took up the most.
 
There are 2 that I really like but I can’t find them.

One is in Nehemiah and says The Joy of the Lord is my strength.

I thought the other was in Zechariah and said Not by an army,
nor by might but by my power says the Lord of Hosts.

My very first favorite is Proverbs 3:5. It’s so useful for daily living
because when things don’t seem right I can ask myself , “In
which of my ways am I not acknowledging God”? and the verse
is true. He really does direct our paths when we acknowledge
Him in all our ways.
 
Chris LaRock:
I read Genisis through. It was great! Psalms is inspirational and loaded with prophecies.

Tobit was my favorite of the apocrypha. The next best is a toss up between Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. Sirach seemed more edgy than Wisdom, with subtle sarcasm in some place.

I’ve read more of the NT than anything else. I think Matthew is the most detailed of the Gospels. Luke is neat because it starts off talking about the parents of John the Baptist. Jude is short, but warns us of false teachers. Verse 9 gives us the words we are to use against spiritual enemies. “The Lord rebukes you”.

Hebrews 10:31 is one I like a lot.

What do you like?
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Tobit is not an apocryphal book to a Catholic.
 
My two favs are the Gospels of Matthew and John.

Matthew because it’s the one I’m most familiar with:rolleyes:
I love John’s Gospel, he reaches into the heavens and speaks to my Lord:harp:
 
They tend to change over time, but two very special to me now are in Micah: “The Lord has told you, O man, what is good: and what does the Lord ask of you but to do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.”

And in II Corinthians: “We have this treasure in vessels of clay, so that it may be seen that this all-surpassing power comes from God, and not from us.”
 
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