# What are your favorite Bible verses? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925 "2023-05-12T06:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/1 "2023-05-12T06:10:38Z")
Everyone knows John 3:16 but I’m personally a fan of John 3:17: “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” I like the Beatitudes and the story of Jesus meeting the adulteress (“let he who is without sin.”) What are some of your favorite Bible verses and stories? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/2 "2023-05-12T06:25:27Z")
For me, mostly the Proverbs. “Many are the sorrows of the wicked.” “Like taking away a cloak on a cold day is he who sings songs to a heavy heart.” (paraphrased) ---
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I collect a fairly large number for that super irritating moment in an online discussion when an obnoxious believer posts just a single verse reference and expects me to look up 1 Maccabees 29 (or whatever) and then extrapolate from that what their arguement is. My personal favourite - and yes, I am going to do it - is John 11 35… but alas I am not childish enough to use it in arguement. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/4 "2023-05-12T11:12:51Z")
One of mine is Romans 8:28 — And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/5 "2023-05-12T12:13:27Z")
For wisdom to guide one’s life, Matthew, chapter 6: Do your praying in private, your charity in secret, and fix your own sins before you whine about the neighbors. For quoting completely out of context, Ezekiel 23:20. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/6 "2023-05-12T12:19:40Z")
Genesis 27:11; “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.” Nothing particularly meaningful about it. It just tickles my innards. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/7 "2023-05-12T12:36:00Z")
Revelation 21: 3-4 > 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. > > 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/8 "2023-05-12T12:47:42Z")
Ezekiel 23:20: > There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/9 "2023-05-12T13:25:53Z")
James 1:20 The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. - KJV for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. - NRSV ---
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This is one my dad always said: Ephesians 4:32 “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” This is tattooed on my leg: 2 Corinthians 12:10 “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/11 "2023-05-12T14:50:16Z")
Disclaimer: Atheist here. There’s only one line in that book I wish everybody took to heart. **Matthew (7:12** ): “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.“ ---
**Author:** ![NinthAcolyte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ninthacolyte/32/13676_2.png) [@NinthAcolyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinthAcolyte)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/12 "2023-05-12T15:00:27Z")
Also an atheist, but an atheist who owns half-a-dozen Bible translations, a Quran, etc. **Revelation 21:1** - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. Something about that phrase - “And there was no longer any sea” - always gives me goosebumps. Maybe it’s the implication that the world-to-come will be completely alien, so utterly unlike our world as to be unrecognizable. ---
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2 Kings 2:23-24: “He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.” Moral: don’t diss bald guys. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/14 "2023-05-12T18:23:50Z")
Come, you who are thirsty, and drink! With joy, draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3. The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament displays his handiwork. Psalm 19:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 ---
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I don’t know if i have a favorite verse, but the one (well, two) that i quote the most is numbers 5:21-22 > here the priest shall administer the curse of adjuration to the woman, as the priest goes on to say to the woman—“may the LORD make you a curse and an imprecation among your people, as the LORD causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend;e 22may this water that induces the spell enter your body, causing the belly to distend and the thigh to sag.” And the woman shall say, “Amen, amen!” This is a magical test of fidelity administered to a woman whose husband accused her of cheating on him. And it looks to me very much like a forced abortion of the child, should it be a bastard, and not sired by the husband. The priest literally gives “bitter water” to the woman to execute this curse. I tend to quote it in abortion debate to point out that there’s nothing in the old testament that would lead you to believe that a fetus is considered to be a human being. Rather, it’s valuable property of the woman and her husband, and the penalty for killing it is the penalty for a property crime, and in fact, abortion is even required in certain circumstances. ---
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I’ve always liked Ecclesiastes. To me it really stands out as different from the rest of the OT. It reads more like the Tao Te Ching than the Bible. > **[Bible Gateway passage: Ecclesiastes 1 - New International Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=NIV)** > > Everything Is Meaningless - The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under... And it provided lyrics for a pretty catchy Byrds song, of course: > **[Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 "For everything there is a season, and a time for every...](https://www.unity.org/bible-interpretations/ecclesiastes-31-8-everything-there-season-and-time-every-matter-under-1)** > > "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to... ---
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2 Kings 9:20: > [@](#): > > The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.” When I was in a college church group, we actually had a “Jehu Son of Nimshi Award,” which was given to whoever demonstrated poor driving skills when we went on road trips for retreats. 😃 ---
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> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.” Ha, I thought, that has to be a more modern translation than the KJV, so I looked it up, and KJV is almost as good: > the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. The Fast and the Furious, Old Testament Edition. ---
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Ecclesiastes 2:24a 24 There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their work. -NRSV ---
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Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925.md?page=2)