Nonbelievers: Do you have any favorite biblical passages?

Question

I like genesis 6:6 myself :)

lizzie...thats also my favorite part..other than the silly stuff in genesis...other than that.....total waste of trees

Answer 1

2 Kings 2:23-24

Answer 2

I have a bit of trivia about the King James version of Psalms 46 to share. If you count from the beginning, you'll discover the 46th word is "shake." If you count backwards from the last word, the 46th word is "spear." The KJV was originally scheduled to be published in 1610, when William Shakespeare would've been 46 years old. (The project fell behind schedule and the KJV was eventually published in 1611.)

It is known that Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare's friend and literary rival, was hired by the Crown to work on translating the Latin Vulgate Bible into Middle English for the King James version. It is also known that William Shakespeare was fluent in Latin. There is no existing record (that I know of) which proves Shakespeare was similarly employed to work on the KJV translation, but I do find the coincidence of all those 46's to be very suspicious. I've known this little factoid so long I've forgotten where I learned it. I'm just passing it on for others to ponder.

Answer 3

Issiah 45:7

Ephessians 5:22

1 Timothy chaper 2

Answer 4

Psalms 139

Answer 5

I rather enjoy "Judge not, lest ye be judged"

I used to be a Catholic. Now as an agnostic, I still apply that to my life. Even though I don't believe in the stories in the bible, it has life lessons that are applicable to all people regardless of creed.

I just wish some fundies Christians and atheists on here would pay attention to the above mentioned passage.

Answer 6

Ya, the one that really cranks my gears is "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 Talk about a good scare tactic these religous nuts use to brainwash their followers.

Answer 7

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

First Corinthians, Chapter 13

Answer 8

Sure I do...it is a great book...

Mark Ch. 3 V 24-25
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Do you want my favorite quote from Romeo and Juliet too??? It is also a beautiful book and a great work of fiction.


Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, who monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Romeo: What shall I swear by?

Juliet: Do not swear at all. Or, if thou wilt, swear by the gracious self which is the god of my idolatry, and I'll believe thee.

Answer 9

Ecclesiastes 3 (21st Century King James Version)
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)

Ecclesiastes 3
1To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven:

2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Answer 10

1Cr 10:13 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].