# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/61 "2023-05-27T11:39:47Z")
The intro, which says, “The following is a work of fiction…” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Onthefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Onthefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onthefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/62 "2023-05-28T01:16:12Z")
Ecclesiastes 12 12 Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness to the flesh. ---
**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 28, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/63 "2023-05-28T21:24:43Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > 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. This is a very interesting point of view. I’ll think on this some. I’ll paste the NIV text as a reference: 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/64 "2023-05-29T06:49:59Z")
The piece that suggests that killing a fetus is a property crime is Exodus 21:22 > 22When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman’s husband may exact from him, the payment to be based on reckoning. 23But if other damage ensues, the penalty shall be life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. Compare to several nearby passages about the penalty for killing a person. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/65 "2023-06-15T05:48:09Z")
Just found one I really love right now. 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV): > Above all, love each other deeply, because **love covers over a multitude of sins**. My bolding. Too many people getting too big on sin and not on love. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/66 "2024-02-12T02:38:03Z")
> At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. > > Matthew 27:51 I always wondered what happened to those Jesus zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/67 "2024-02-12T11:30:04Z")
Mark 5:9 > And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. _“My name is Legion, for we are many”_ is a really good line, which is why it gets used so much of course. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/68 "2024-02-12T12:02:28Z")
“Deuteronomy 25:11-12 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.” I’d want my wife to fight dirty. Grab 'em by the nuts, poke him in the eye, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/69 "2024-02-12T17:03:17Z")
Yeah, that one even 12yo me said “wait, what?” ---
**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:** [February 13, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925/70 "2024-02-13T03:15:54Z")
I like the story of the widow’s offering, from the 12th chapter of Mark. 41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. 43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-bible-verses/983925.md?page=3)