Favorite Verse Archive
 
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.  
-- Job 21:7, NIV 

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,  "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"  And I said,   "Here am I. Send me!"  
-- Isaiah 6:8, NIV  

Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.   
-- Amos 5:24  

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  
-- Matthew 5:8  

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.   
-- Genesis 1:31 

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." 
--  John 17:20-21; Jesus prays for all believers (NIV) 

Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasuring to God - this is your spiritual act of worship.  
--  Romans 12:1 (NIV) 

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.    
--Acts 2:28; The Apostle Peter quoting King David (NIV)  

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.   
--Romans 8:28 (NIV)  

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.   
-- Mark 16:19-20 (NIV)  

"If my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."   

-- 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)   

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.   
--  Acts 2:46-47 (NIV)  

It is true! It is true! The Lord has risen and appeared to Simon.   
--  Luke 24: 34b (NIV)  

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.   
--  Romans 13:6-7 (NIV)  

Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen!   
--  Luke 24:5b-6a (NIV)  

"My kingdom is not of this world. If it were my servents would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place. For this reason I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of the truth listens to me."   
--  John 19:36-37 (NIV; Jesus in response to Pilate)  

You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am.  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.    
-- John 13:15-16, New International Version  

See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.   
--  Matthew 21:5  

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us and eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.   
--  2 Corinthians 4:16-18  

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.   
--  Acts 17:24 (The apostle Paul addresses the citizens of Athens)  

The water I give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up to eternal life.   
--  John 4:14b (Jesus, at the well with the Samaritan Woman)   

He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.   
--  Titus 3:5b-7  

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the rightious run to it and are safe.   
-- Proverbs 18:10  

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.   
--Psalm 63:3

"Then you will call and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help and He will say: Here am I"    
-- Isaiah 58: 9a   

"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."   
-- Micah 6:8  

"Are any among you sick? They shall call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them..."   
-- James 5:14a  

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.   
--  Ephesians 2:14-16  

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.   
-- Matthew 28:19-20; The Great Commission  

"I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel."   
-- Numbers 24:17a  

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see--I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.   
--- Luke 2:8-12  

God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored!  The Lord is with you."   
--Luke 1:26-28, NIV  

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.   
--  Romans 15:13  

"For God made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."  
-- 2 Corinthians 4:6-7  

"He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor."  
-- Psalms 112:9  

"Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy, they will sing before the Lord, for he comes. . .to judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth."  
-- King David, Psalm 96:11-13  

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.  
--Isaiah 53:6 

 
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