• read the Bible from cover to cover and note favorite verses | kjv or niv
• but remember: context is always important :)

✓ Genesis

• 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

✓ Exodus

• 4:10-12 Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
• 14:14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
• 22:25 If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
• 23:8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blind the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

✓ Leviticus

• 19:18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
• 19:26 You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes, 28 _You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD, 31 Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.

✓ Numbers

• 15:22-28 (Matthew Perry commentary)
  • (1.) Sins committed ignorantly need to have atonement made for them; for, though ignorance will in a degree excuse, it will not justify those that might have known their Lord’s will and did it not. David prayed to be cleansed from his secret faults, that is, those sins which he himself was not aware of, the errors he did not understand, Ps. 19:12 .
  • (2.) Sins committed ignorantly shall be forgiven, through Christ the great sacrifice, who, when he offered up himself once for all upon the cross, seemed to explain the intention of his offering in that prayer, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do

✓ Deuteronomy

• 6:5-7 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• 13:5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
• 15:11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
• 16:19 Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent.

✓ Joshua ✓ Judges ✓ Ruth ✓ 1 Samuel

• 15:27 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”

Psalm

• 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
• 37:4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Luke

• 9:57-62 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

✓ Romans

• 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen
• 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth for himself
• 1:22, 1:25, 2:1, 3:23, 5:9-10, 7:17, 8:5-8, 8:17-18, 8:24, 8:29, 8:31, 9:11, 9:20, 10:9, 10:14-15, 11:16, 11:36, 12:2, 12:19, 12:21, 13:10, 13:12, 14:7, 15:21

✓1 Corinthians

• 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (niv)
• 5:12-14 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
• 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men (niv)
• 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
• MARRIAGE; ch 7 || DIVORCE 7:10-15 || remarriage after death 7:39
• 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 10:12 And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (niv)
• 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
• 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
• 11:24-34 THE COMMUNION
• 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (niv)
• 14:34-35 ?!?
• 3:9-11, 3:16-17, 5:11; 6:13-20; 8:5-6; 8:9-13; 10:20; 14:35-58 the resurrection body and christ is the second adam; death has lost its sting!! 14:55

✓2 Corinthians

• 1:5-7 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. (niv)
• 9:1-5 planning for success
• 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
• 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• 1:22; 5:17; 6:3-10; 9:8-11;

✓Galatians

• 2:16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
• 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.
• 5:9 A little leaven (a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers) leavens the whole lump [it perverts the whole conception of faith or misleads the whole church]. (amplified)
• 6:1 Brethren, if any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also. (amplified)
• 1:9; paul's past 1:23; 2:24-25; 5:16-23; 6:2-3

✓Ephesians

• 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
• 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit (niv)
• 5:22-33 MARRIAGE; 6:1-9 SUBMISSION; 6:10-18 ARMOUR OF GOD

✓Philippians

• 1:27 Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. (niv)
• 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. (niv)
• 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• 3:19-21

✓ Colossians

• 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (niv)
• 3:18-21 18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. (niv)
• 4:5-6 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

✓ 1 Thessalonians

• 4:3-4 _For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor
• 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
• 2:19; 5:8 (armor of God)

✓ 2 Thessalonians

• 2:8 And then shall the Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, an shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
• 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
• 3:14-15 (be careful who you associate with)

1 Timothy

• 2:9-12 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
• 6:10 for the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have errered from the faith, and pierced themselves through many sorrows

James

• 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
• 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
• 1:6

Isaiah

• 43:18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
• 64:8

John

• 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1 John

• 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Matthew

• 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
• 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. (niv)

Hebrews

• 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
• 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 11:6

Mark

• 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Acts

• 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Proverbs

• 22:24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.
• laziness verses: 6:6–11; 10:4, 26; 12:24, 27; 13:4; 15:19; 19:15, 24; 20:4; 21:25; 22:13; 24:30–34; 26:13–16

Revelations

• 21:2-4 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And 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. And 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.