Your favorite Bible passages....

(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)



"As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you."

OT is where it is at!
 
superisis said:
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)



"As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you."

OT is where it is at!

It is interesting that you choose to pick benign quotes from the Koran and yet choose the above from the bible. Could it be that you are a religious bigot? Not that I care, of course.
 
superisis said:
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)



"As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you."

OT is where it is at!
Apparently Genghis Khan was a Christian, because that's exactly what he did! :D


"Pride goeth before the fall."


Edit: I notice you have a quotation from Temujin in your signature. Coincidence? I think not.
 
John 8, "The Woman Caught in Adultery"
 
Hundegesicht said:
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall..." :rolleyes: (#1 most misquoted bible verse, ever)
There's no difference in meaning, though. The last time I checked, being a "haughty spirit" is comprobable to being "pride[ful]."
 
Job 1:7-1:12 (Darby Translation/KG Revised)

(7)And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (8)And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? (9)And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? (10)Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land. (11)But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, [and I] got Ten bucks that says he will curse thee to thy face! (12)And Jehovah said to Satan, why not make it Fifty!?
 
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” (Matthew 7:12) ??

This was also taught by Confucius around 500BC. so.... :mischief:
 
I dont know where this is in the Bible as I have never read said book but I know it is in there somewhere...

"I have seen temptation and thy name is women" just got to love that quote
 
Shadylookin said:
psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

You know, you really should reference the entire psalm when you quote this line. One might think you trying to use it as a subtle jab against Christianity.

137:1 By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.
137:2 On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,
137:3 for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: “Sing for us a song about Zion!”
137:4 How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?
137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!
137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.
137:7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”
137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How happy will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
137:9 How happy will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
 
Drunk Master said:
Matthew 5:38-42 is pretty cool :)

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

I love that one as well. I always seem to find myself quoting it to nutjob conservatives who quote Levicticus and claim that God is in favour of the death penalty.
 
FrantzX,

Would it be too much for you to explain how 137:1-8 makes 137:9 any less sick, twisted & cruel?
 
Although I've seen it written very differently in different bibles, I'll never forget this verse we hung up in our college dorm room. We proved it correct as often as we could.

Proverbs 20:1
Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.
 
"Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion. Therefore, unless death comes as an indulgence because of extreme circumstances which make the termination of life a welcome relief from an unendurable earthly existence, suicide is frowned upon by the Satanic religion."

Oops!
Wrong bible!

:D
 
Hundegesicht said:
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Self mutalation is pretty hardcore penance... :eek:

If you have to cut off the organ that make you sin , then most human Christain males would be :mischief: by now . ;)
 
Ramius75 said:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” (Matthew 7:12) ??
You are right!

I would like to add the first two verses of that chapter:
1 Judge not, that you be not judged.
2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
 
...pale horse:
and he that sat on him was Death,
and Hell followed with him.
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,
to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death,
and with the beasts of earth.
Revelation 6:8
 
Roman Chapter 8 is a good passage.

Romans 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 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.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 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.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

There are just so many things about this passage that makes it one of my favourites.
 
samildanach said:
It is interesting that you choose to pick benign quotes from the Koran and yet choose the above from the bible. Could it be that you are a religious bigot? Not that I care, of course.

Yup, that's me, the religious bigot :rolleyes:

in both cases I choose the phrase based on controversy/paradox. A lot of Christians see the Bible as the word of god, and a lot of Christians considdering murdering/raping/slavery etc wrong... yet here is a passage, directly from god stating the opposite. Likewise with the other: most Muslims considder it wrong to drink alcohol, yet in that sura it states that those who do so are most wise indeed.

To elaborate:

While there are plently of nice phrases that can be found in the bible (we see a lot of them stated in this thread) I wanted to remind people that the bible aint just a happy peice of sunshine. As for my Koranic verse, most people on this forum know little about islam, and I doubt that many knew that the koran (can be interpreted as it) condones the drinking of alcohol.
 
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