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« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2021, 11:39:25 AM »

This, I would argue, is the "dirtiest" verse in the Bible, although perhaps "sensual" is a better way to describe it:

Quote from: Song of Solomon 4:16
Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.

Steamy!

But, I would say this is my favorite:

Quote from: Psalm 23:1-2
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.
You are coming close to going on my ignore list.

While the 23rd Psalm isn't awful, it gets so overused that I've specifically told both my pastor and my wife that I don't want it used during my funeral. (Not that I'm expecting to die any time soon.)

Then you're really gonna hate me when I tell you I'm specifically requesting that it be used during my funeral. Tongue As a nature enthusiast, it simply wouldn't be proper of me not to!
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« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2021, 02:23:12 PM »

2nd place:

"...I am, who i am..."(Ex.,3.14): Foundation of OntoLogy

1st place:

"...God is light..."(1.John,1.5)/"...God is love..."(1.John,4.Cool: foundation of AxioLogy

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« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2021, 01:21:24 PM »

When I was a Christian, I was partial to Ruth 1:16

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But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
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« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2021, 01:39:09 AM »

This, I would argue, is the "dirtiest" verse in the Bible, although perhaps "sensual" is a better way to describe it:

Quote from: Song of Solomon 4:16
Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.

Steamy!

But, I would say this is my favorite:

Quote from: Psalm 23:1-2
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.
You are coming close to going on my ignore list.

While the 23rd Psalm isn't awful, it gets so overused that I've specifically told both my pastor and my wife that I don't want it used during my funeral. (Not that I'm expecting to die any time soon.)

Then you're really gonna hate me when I tell you I'm specifically requesting that it be used during my funeral. Tongue As a nature enthusiast, it simply wouldn't be proper of me not to!

Only if I were attending your funeral. Since I doubt I'll be there, I don't care enough to hate you for your poor taste in what you want included in your funeral, only disappointed.  Sunglasses
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« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2021, 09:29:42 AM »

Psalm 2:8-12: Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Matthew 6:5-8: When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites. They love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners and pray loudly. They want people to see them. The truth is, that’s all the reward they will get. But when you pray, you should go into your room and close the door. Then pray to your Father. He is there in that private place. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you.
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« Reply #30 on: October 31, 2021, 08:57:43 PM »

Atm....

Ecclesiastes 12 1:12

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Remember thy Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say:
“I find no pleasure in them”—
before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows grow dim;
when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home
and mourners go about the streets.

Remember thy creator in the days of your youth
before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,

For then the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.
“Everything is meaningless

Translation: GROWING UP IS A SCAM
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« Reply #31 on: November 29, 2022, 12:26:47 PM »

This is a very late reply and also not even an answer to the question in the thread, but my favorite chapter of the Pentateuch is Genesis 24, the chapter where Rebecca is betrothed to Isaac. The scene of the maiden at the well appears several times in the Bible, but this is the first time and the best. Rebecca is probably the most dynamic female character in the whole Pentateuch, while Isaac is the least active of the patriarchs. It will be Rebecca's love for Jacob and not Isaac's for Esau that determines the future course of the house of Abraham. Appropriately, in this chapter where we meet Rebecca, we barely see Isaac at all. Abraham's servant is the one who brings the camels to the well and identifies Rebecca as the promised maiden.

Here too we get to meet Laban and immediately detect his financial keenness, which will prove important somewhat later. The children of Bethuel are the stars of this chapter, and we see how they will both determine the future of the Israelites.
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« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2022, 02:58:07 PM »

It's in my signature; I'm sure a few people have seen it.

I also like Luke 23:43
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« Reply #33 on: December 12, 2022, 12:36:27 PM »

In no particular order:

Quote from: John 16:33, ESV
"I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Quote from: John 8:32
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
I've actually considered requesting this as an epitaph on my gravestone, assuming I'm buried when I die.

Quote from: Philippians 2:9-11, ESV
Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on Earth and under the Earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Quote from: Proverbs 3:5-6, ESV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.
If I ever win an elected office, this is the verse I want the Bible opened to when I take the oath.

Quote from: Psalm 30:5, ESV
For His anger is but for a moment, and His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for a night, but joy comes with the morning.

Quote from: Luke 15:7, ESV
"Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Quote from: Psalm 139:1-12, NIV
O Lord, You have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
And are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
And lay Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from Your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, You are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
And the light about me be night."
Even the darkness is not dark to You;
The night is bright as the day,
For darkness is as light with You.

It's in my signature; I'm sure a few people have seen it.


I also like Luke 23:43
I like that verse too, but only with the verses immediately preceding it.
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« Reply #34 on: December 14, 2022, 11:28:43 AM »

NT: John 8:58 → “Jesus said unto them, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.’”

OT: Isaiah 55:8 → “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord.”
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« Reply #35 on: December 14, 2022, 11:26:07 PM »

Ezekiel 25:17
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« Reply #36 on: December 15, 2022, 05:39:08 AM »

Hosea 2:15 (KJV)

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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2022, 09:00:48 AM »

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« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2022, 11:58:18 AM »

None so N/A. The biggest lie in the Bible which is packed with lies is the nonsense about the meek shall inherit the earth. Even to this day, under the largely disingenuous guise of "eleemosynaryism," it is  still very brutish out there. It reminds me of the line from In Cold Blood:

“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.” 
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