What's your favorite Catholic Bible Verse?

Question

For my Theology class we have to present a verse and relate it to the real world, so what's your favorite, because I can't personally find one.

Answer 1

Gal 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

This is not a bad one. It shows that Peter was commissioned by the Holy Spirit to be the Apostle to the Jews. - How to relate it? Well the Popes can't be in a line from Peter since God designated Peter to the Jews. Either that or they've all horribly failed in their pretended office!

Or,
Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. - Ooops, mustn't call the Pope or the priest father.

Or,
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. - So, no purgatory then.

Or,
Psa 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. - And no prayers to the saints.

Or,
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. - Wow, no more confession or absolution or last rites or any superstitious nonesense. Very practical.

These Bible verses are very liberating. You really ought to try a little harder to find one.

There are some 31,102 verses in the Bible so I am a little surprised that you can't find one.

And I don't know how you can live without them since, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Matt 4/4.

Answer 2

My favorite is a summary of all of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 22:36-39 states:

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew22.htm

+ The Catholic Bible +

By the way, the New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Romans 1:18-27

Answer 4

Here are a couple of choices:

Matthew 13:55-56 (NIV)

55"Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"

1 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.

1 Timothy 4 (NIV)

1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Here is the one which proves the Muhammed and Joseph Smith are fakes:

Galatians 1:6-9 (NIV)

6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Pastor Art

Answer 5

whoever suggested "The Catholic Bible is a lie and is not the comprehend The Lord" should not be your faith so dnt hear to those jerks...i've got faith in it and that offends me too! so whoever suggested that, close up because of the fact if u dont have a fave verse there is no reason to even say that except you opt to be a jerk so close up...my fashionable verse is John 3:14. it is an exceptionally extensive-unfold one yet regardless of you do, dont have faith that lady from the commencing up cuz she is a jerk!

Answer 6

My favorite is 1 Chronicles 26:18

At Parbar westward, four at the causeway and two at Parbar.

You give them this one and you will have a ball. I tell people that it is my life verse. I live by it. Smile.

Answer 7

How about Matt. 23:9, where Jesus told his followers not to call one another religious titles like "father"?