What's your favorite memorized Bible verse?

[Sojourner55]

When I was in the third or fourth grade, a foreign missionary who had been imprisoned in communist China for years, gave a talk at my elementary school. I was pretty young, and my attention span fairly short, but a few things stand out in my memory. She said the first thing they did before locking her up was to take her Bible. They had no idea what it was really about, but they knew it meant something to the missionaries, so they took it away.

She said the cell she was in was so small she could go from wall to wall in just a few steps, and that pacing back and forth was the only exercise she could get. After a year or so of that, she said she felt as if she was losing her sanity. She said 3 things saved it: faith, fervent prayer, and reciting Bible verses she knew by heart. These things could not be taken from her, and they carried her through her ordeal. I've wondered over the years, how well I would deal with her situation, if my faith called for it. I know that, like her, I would draw my strength on faith, sweet communion with God, and memorized passages of Scripture. Two of the first verses I committed to memory as a new Christian were these:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
(Prov 3:5-6)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
(Gal 2:22)

[ChristianCoffee]

Favorite verse....my brother, you make things very difficult on me. But there is one set of verses, and I include it in almost everything I say. God gave these lines to me, as my comfort, my strength, my reminder of where I am today. And where I came from. And where I will be going someday.

Romans 8:15-17

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

[Youssarian]

Although this is not the literal translation of the verse (with it being NIV and all), it's still pretty poignant.

"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!" - Ecclesiastes 1:2

This verse means that a life apart of God is ultimately meaningless. It is a constant reminder for me to live for God; for without him, what does my life amount to?

[awestruckchild]

As always, I don't know where it is. Galatians...?
It pleased Him to show me His son.

[Sojourner55]

As always, I don't know where it is. Galatians...?
It pleased Him to show me His son.

You must mean this passage:

15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. (Gal 1:15-17)

[mornay]

Mine is one that has been very meaningfull to me in the last 11 months:
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and on;y Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

WOW.

[Sojourner55]

Another favorite of mine is a statement by the Apostle Paul that pretty much sums up our Salvation--and subsequently, embodies the "scarlet thread" that runs from Genesis to Revelation:

For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Cor 5:21)

[Sojourner55]

All things work together for good to those who love the Lord, and are the called according to His purpose. (Rom 8:28)

[turtledove]

Psalm 119:105 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. " (KJV)

When I first memorized this I remember sometimes getting the light and lamp reversed so that I was saying. "They word is a light unto my path and a lamp unto my feet." I got it right by training my mind to think.... 'feet first.'

[NewInHim]

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. ~ Hebrews 4:16

[glazer1972]

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

[turtledove]

"A person may think their own ways are right; but the Lord weighs the heart." (Proverbs 21:2)

[Sojourner55]

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)


Timely for us in the US, today.

[Sojourner55]

"No weapon that is formed against you will prosper or prevail; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD. (Isaiah 54:17)

[andrew_no_one]

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.