Favorite Bible Verse thread? Been thinking a lot about Isaiah 45:9 after happening upon it recently. The translations of the final verse are all over the place which adds to the interest.
>>7358426
2 Kings 2:23-24
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
>>7358426
Matthew 7:6
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
ecc 1:9, 3:10
rev 3:16
john 1:1
Ecclesiastes 1:9
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
>>7358426
I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
>>7358860
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons and a companion to owls
Fuck yeah dragonborn, Owls are ok too I guess, all wise and shit.
I have ordered the Oxford World Classics Bible and it looks intimidating. What are the best books in it? I love Psalms and Romans.
Romans 12:2
>And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Proverbs 25:28
>He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
>>7358867
That's not the Psalms.
>>7358434
Patrish Joyce.
Job 6:11
What strength do I have, that I should still hope?
What prospects, that I should be patient?
>>7359045
More Job 6, it's just so fucking good
“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,
as the streams that overflow
16 when darkened by thawing ice
and swollen with melting snow,
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
and in the heat vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes;
they go off into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema look for water,
the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
20 They are distressed, because they had been confident;
they arrive there, only to be disappointed.
21 Now you too have proved to be of no help;
you see something dreadful and are afraid.
22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf,
pay a ransom for me from your wealth,
23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy,
rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
24 “Teach me, and I will be quiet;
show me where I have been wrong.
25 How painful are honest words!
But what do your arguments prove?
26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
and treat my desperate words as wind?
27 You would even cast lots for the fatherless
and barter away your friend.
Proverbs 16:16
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
>>7359016
Ecclesiastes is consistently great though.
Psalms is a roller coaster of some iconic psalms and some boring shit.
>>7358426
Job 38
>>7358867
Job, Isiah and genesis are all far better. Ecclesiastes is just high school tier confessional prose, nothing that deep or poetic about it.
>>7360690
>Ecclesiastes is just high school tier confessional prose
no
>>7360690
If high schoolers wrote like that, I would listen to high schoolers more often, holy shit
>>7358426
Revelation 21:5
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Probably my favorite verse in the Bible. Also part of Fallout 3's storyline making it pretty based.
>>7358426
James 1:16-17
Do not err; my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Leviticus 15
