The best Bible Quotes (Page 2)

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them - yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Neither shall they say, "Lo here!" or, "lo there!" for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

For love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one's house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.

There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die."

Jesus: "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it."

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

And call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.

The Parable of the Two Sons

What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work today in the vineyard."
"I will not," he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, "I will, sir," but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted? "The first," they answered. Jesus said to them, Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

Because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

The Lord is my strength
and my shield,
in him my heart trusts,
and I am helped.

The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD." Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

If I forget you, Jerusalem, May my right hand forget its skill.

If we died with him, we will also live with him.

Surely the righteous will never be shaken; they will be remembered forever.