What is your favorite religious verse and why?
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Jer. 29:11.. "for I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper and not to harm you..to give you a future and a hope"..Sometimes in my life it seems there is no hope for anything. This verse tells me that no matter how bad things get..He has a plan for me and there is a future.
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"Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds. His right hand and arm have got him the victory."\n- Psalm 98.1
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God\n\nBut as humans Adam. Abraham, Muhammad Peace be upon them all
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Saint John of the Cross is my favorite.
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Ok, i got 2 good ones. The story aboout Balaal and the talking donkey at Numbers 22; 28- 35\nAlso Absalom getting stuck in the tree from his hair at 2 Samuel 18; 9\n\nHere's some more doozies;  Jacob dressing up and getting hairy like Esau in Genesis 27; 15 - 40\nIsraelites disobeying Moses about the manna provision and getting worms in their food at Exodus 16; 19 and 20\nMy personal favorite is Exodus 32; 24 where Aaron is explaining to Moses how he took the jewelry from the people , threw it into the fire , and the golden calf happened to come out on its own. What he really did is mentioned at verse 4.
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Actually, I have a few favorite ones...\n\n"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror"\n\n"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom"\n\n"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go"\n\n"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly"\n\n"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world"\n\n"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"\n\n"Everytime I think I've hit the bottom, God lends me a shovel"\n\n"The important thing is to stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing"\n\n"Love is hard work, & hard work sometimes hurts"\n\n"True love never dies, for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime, but lust just pushes away"\n\n"We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changing person"\n\n"Love is what we're born with, fear is what we learn here"\n\n"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not even born until they arrive; & it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"\n\n"Oh innocent victims of cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse"\n\nTHAT'S JUST A SELECTED FEW THAT I CHOSEN OUT OF MY JOURNAL I KEEP OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES.
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oh, I'd say the Bible :-)
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My personal favorite is:\n " In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.... All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. \n  In Him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ...\n   He was in the world , and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not.\n   He came unto His own and His own received Him not.\n   But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. \n   And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, full of grace and truth."
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God! seeing as how he inspired it! :)
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"There are two things of which I am certain.  1.  There is a God.  2.  I'm not Him."\n\nI think it's my favorite because there are so few things in life about which we can be certain.  It's nice to have something that I can be certain about.
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I have many favorites, but this one really stands out to me.\n\nHebrews 11:3\n\n"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."\n\nI really like this verse because it shows that our faith in God is not visible, but we still trust and believe in it.  Not all things are visible, but we always rely that they are there.  Oxygen and air, for example, are not visible yet we breathe the fresh air we intake into our lungs in order to survive every day.  \nWe need the breath of God in order to live fully.
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Love.\n\nIn the end, it's all about love.  Even the law is about love.  \n\nWe don't always know what's best for us.  We don't always know what love is.  We think strong feelings are love.  How many people in the world control, manipulate, abuse, and even kill in the name of love.  What do we know about love?\n\nLove is when you do what is best for someone else.  When you put them first.\n\nWe have our own desires to contend with.  The law was given to us to teach us how to balance our desires with loving others.\n\n“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”\nJesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”  Matthew 22:36-40\n\nWe don't even know how to properly love ourselves.  We have addictions and vices and disorders.  We don't want to obey because it's not fun and it's difficult.\n\nWhat if it's the best thing for us?  What if obedience is best, not because we fear some retribution later, but because it ultimately makes us into someone we love being right here and now?  Someone who is able to love God and others deeply and completely?\n\nI don't know why Mr. Shaw believes that "God doesn't do happy."  Maybe he's thinking more along the lines of giddy rather than joyous?\n\nFor whom the LORD loves He corrects,\nJust as a father the son in whom he delights.\nProverbs 3:12\n\n The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,\n And He delights in his way.\nPsalm 37:23\n\n But let him who glories glory in this,\n That he understands and knows Me,\n That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, \njudgment, and righteousness in the earth.\n For in these I delight,” says the LORD.\nJeremiah 9:24
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I love the Bible.  I am so grateful that God gave us a manual for life and revealed  His love for us in black & white.  "I will hide His Word in my heart so I will not sin against God."
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I can't help you with the second part, but here is my fave passage:\n\nJohn 3:16\n\n"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him may have everlasting life."\n\n-Bible\n\n.:Lark:.
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My Torah obviously but outside of that I'd have to say my Tallit (aka prayer shawl)  I love pulling it over my head and blocking everything out when I pray.
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Jesu, joy of man's desiring\nJS Bach\n\nmost beautiful song i have ever heard
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I prefer the King James Version because I believe it to be the most correct. \n\nOne of my favorite scriptures is:\n\nJames 1:5 "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."