Which is the most beatiful passage in the Bible?

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thistle said:
It depends how you define beautiful. Most beautiful may not be most meaningful.
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I agree.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him"
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Doesn’t sound beautiful to the ears but this describes one of the most beautiful gifts God ever gave to humanity.
 
Jn 1: 9.
“The true light, that enlightens every man, was coming into the world.”
 
The New Covenant:

“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.” Jer 31:33-34
 
Luke 1: 46-55 Let us pray the words with our Mother Mary:

My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded
the low estate of his handmaiden:
for, behold, from henceforth
all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things;
and holy is his name…🙂
 
Like others, there are too many favorite verses, so I picked the first one that came to my mind.

Wisdom 3:1-3: Wait a minute! I better print in out for ‘some’ of our Protestant friends that don’t have 73 Books in their Bible. 🙂

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and no torment will ever touch them.
In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,
and their departure was thought to be an affliction,
and their going from us to be their destruction;
but they are at peace.

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Netty1 said:
I love all of St John’s Gospel, but in particular the beginning. To me those few verses encompass the enormity of Christ, who He is and why He was sent to us.

At the beginning of time the Word already was; and God had the Word abiding with him, and the Word was God. He abode, at the beginning of time, with God. It was through him that all things came into being, and without him came nothing that has come to be. In him there was life, and that life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness, a darkness which was not able to master it.

(Knox Version)
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petra22 said:
Yes, this for me, too! Any version…
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Well…I like it in almost any version except the Good News version. It reads:

“In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to people. The light shines in the darkness, ad the darkness has never put it out.”

It seems too scientific for me, and it lacks a bit of the eloquence found in other translations. :twocents:
 
As we get ready to celebrate The Feast of The Exaltation of The Holy Cross -

’ My God , my God, why have You abandoned Me …’ the verse and the psalm that The Spirit had prepared for The Son of God , to be uttered on The Cross …
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powerful and beautiful, in its endings ..narrating the many spiritual forces set against our Lord , against whom He is garnering strenghth , for our sake ..
powerful , for the times when there may be occasions / persons , in our lives , who might need to be lifted up, to be with The Lord … even in the chastisement of being detached from God , for whose sake, The Son of God took upon Himself , such a role …to gain us strenght and merits and claim, to be helped to be brought back , to allow The Spirit , to take hold of, so that the concluding verses
  • 'I will live for The Lord, my descendants wil serve You ’ will become the reality, to be anticipated with joyful trust !
 
One of my favorites, I first learned while praying the Divine Office.
Luke 1: 78-79
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace
I’m not sure what version this is because it certainly doesn’t sound as good in other translations!
I also love, like so many, the Gospel of John, esp. the beginning.
 
“But let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” AMOS 5:24
 
tallymom said:
One of my favorites, I first learned while praying the Divine Office.
Luke 1: 78-79
In the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace
I’m not sure what version this is because it certainly doesn’t sound as good in other translations!
I also love, like so many, the Gospel of John, esp. the beginning.
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👍 This is one of my favorites also (which is proclaimed in the LOTH every morning).

Here is another translation of it from the** New Jerusalem Bible:**

Because of the faithful love of our God
in which the rising Sun
has come from on high to visit us,
to give light to those who live
in darkness and the shadow dark as death,
and to guide our feet
into the way of peace.

or from the Revised English Bible (REB):

**For in the tender compassion of our God
the dawn from heaven will break upon us,
to shine on those who live in darkness,
under the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

**
 
Thanks for those translations, CalCatholic- I like them! But listen to it in the Douey-Reims-

Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us: To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Not pretty!

My Dad loves the Douey-Reims, so I don’t want to knock it, but in this particular verse:eek:
 
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