What is:

The Bible verse you hold near and dear to your hearts?

Psalm 23 is mine.

I will tell you the one that has a good meaning to me and why. I was working at a place that was really hard to learn and we had tests every Friday, so I go to the bathroom and cry and pray to God , that I cant do that kind of work, I am not smart enough and even kids younger then me were quitting daily... and the verse, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" came to my mind immediately....and I complained to God..."No I can't you saw me out there".... lol yea me telling God what I can't do. fast forward 6 years still at the same place, I saw I can do all things through him. I use that verse a lot when I come across something I can't humanly do, and remind myself.. Nope I can't without his help.

Psalm 103

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
I find it reassuring to always remember that we have no greater friend than Christ.

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My mom lost her mom, dad, and husband all in the same year, then 2 years later she lost her 7 yr. old son, she said on the way to the funeral of dad's, she thought she was going to lose her mind, cause she lost her mom and dad before him in the same yr. she said she kept saying the 23rd ps in her mind the whole time and it calmed her.

Everytime i haft to remind my friend these cery words when he complains about hos job:

You were placed here by God, for that being said you work for God and not this chicken plant.

It's not what I call my favorite, but Proverbs 18:10 is certainly special to me.

Proverbs 18:10 "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe."

I felt like I had a lot to run from and God certainly has been the safest place to run. He's never let me down.

Love in Jesus,
Kelby

But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me out to the light, And I will see His righteousness. Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes will look on her; At that time she will be trampled down Like mire of the streets.
Micah 7:7‭-‬10 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/mic.7.7-10.NASB

Wisdom cries in the streets but no man listens.

Would you deny me (God) to make your own self righteous?

Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

So many Bible verses, so little time!

" And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified." Romans 8:28-30.

"Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39

"Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance, character, and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." Romans 5:3-5

Ezekiel 13
3 Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

For me the passage of the Bible i read that caused me to understand the Way of salvation for the first time.. It was when i first became a Christian..

Romans 7
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Jesus wept.

🙃 this is a very good one. Many may feel that God is too serious and therefore we myst be serious.

However with these two words: Jesus Wept. We see that God expresses emption and that He is serious BUT he is not always serious.

He came down to live among us and everything that has been recorded is very well truth. Yes He is God and yes He has emotion.

These very emotions are from God Himself and it has never been man made but God made.

Very good verse 😁

Every verse in The Bible is very good and great at the same time because it is all God breathed and is always respected.

Amen

OOps did i expose a truth? Yes becauw yes God is always serious but in ways He is not.

YEs He is a loving God and yes he is very open to emotion. HE cried because of what happened to Hos friend.

HE cries with you he laughs with you i mean sang He even got mad and lectured the pharasees and called them hipacrits.

ALong side if turning thosr tables iver in the temple.

So is God always serious? YEs, and No.

So why are we all bashing each other and starting a war path on here when WE ARE FAMILY!!

instead of this why not sy i understand and respect where you may see that but this is what I believe.

Attacking aomeone because of what they believe is wrong, we are to never cram out beliefes down someones kneck.

This whole thing is wrong. Ecause too much of this is going on and i see it clearly.

But we are humans after all but JEsus never wanted us devided He wanted us united.

Amen

Hate to "rain on yer parade", seeings how you were doing so well with this thread.

Perhaps, you might see this clearly as well?

Matthew 10
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Or?
1 Corinthians 12
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

But, yet? This is precisely what's been, and being done!

Seems, ya know, ya don't wanna know! While putting the boot to those who do know!

Just take a look at Jesus! Not to mention all the disciples and apostles!

Did any of these people just die in their sleep? Because of their wittness, or testimony?

Do you "assume" that because THEY didn't love their lives EVEN unto death, YOU CAN?

Matthew 23
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

I will never leave you nor forsake you..

A promise God makes often throughout the Bible.