My Favorite Verses

Now, I love reading the Bible, and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that any part is more important than the other. I just have some verses that are forever ingrained in my memory, and highlighted and reread over and over in my bible, and these are some.

• Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
• Deuteronomy 6:4&5 - "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
• Deuteronomy 31:6 - "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you."
• Joshua 1:5, 7, & 9 - "No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous... Be very strong and courageous... Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."
• Ruth 1:16 - "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God."
• Psalm 18:1-3 - "I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies."
• Psalm 23 - "The Lord is my shepard, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the vallet of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You annoit my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
• Psalm 32:7 - "You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance."
• Psalm 37:4 - "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."
• Psalm 118:24 -"This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it."
• Psalm 119:11 - "I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you."
• Psalm 119:34-36 - "Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statues, and not toward selfish gain."
• Psalm 119:105 - "Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
• Psalms 139:13&14 - "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."
• Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."
• Proverbs 15:1 - "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh answer stirs up anger."
• Proverbs 15:8 - "The Lord detests the sacrafice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases Him."
• Proverbs 31:10-31 <3
• Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 "A Time for Everything"
• Song of Songs 2:2 - "Like a lily among the thorns, is my darling among the young women." <3
• Song of Songs 4:7 - "You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you."
• Isaiah 40:29-31 - He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
• Jeremiah 29:11 - "'For I know the plans I have for you', declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.'"
• Micah 6:8 - "He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To seek justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."
• Matthew 7:1-3 - "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye, and ignore the plank in your own eye?"
• Matthew 7:7 - "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you."
• Matthew 22:37-39 - "Jesus replied, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
• John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."
• John 14:6 - "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me."
• Romans 1:29 - "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."
• Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8  "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." <3
• 2 Corinthians 5:8 - "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord."
• 2 Corinthians 12:8&10 - "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness... For when I am weak, then I am strong."
• Galatians 5:22-23 - "But the fruit of the spirit it love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
• Ephesians 4:29 - "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."
• Phillipians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
• 2 Timothy 2:11-13  - "If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we disown Him, He will disown us; if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for he cannot disown Himself."
• Hebrews 11:1 - "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we cannot see."
• James 2:17 - "Also, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
• 1 Peter 1:7-9 - "These trials have come so that the proven genuiness of your faith -of greater worth than gold, which perishes though refined by fire - may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are recieving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

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These are just some of the ones highlighted, underlined, marked by, and written next to in my bible. I love many more, but these are some of my favorites. <3