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Favorite One-Line Scriptures

Bishka

Bishka

Veteran Member
What are your favorite one-line scriptures? These can come from ANY religious text.
Please tell what book of scriptures they are from and what religion uses them. Thanks!
BTW, they don't have to exactly be one-liners, but sum up parts of it, like I have done.

"And be ye kind on to another" (Ephesians 4:32) - Bible - New Testament - Christianity

"The Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not." (Jacob 4:13) - Book of Mormon - Christianity/Mormonism

"Comfort all that mourn" (Isaiah 61:2) - Bible - Old Testament - Christianity, Judiasm(correct me if I'm wrong here)

"He that followerth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12) - New Testament - Christianity

"Fear not, for I am with thee" - (Genesis 26:24) - Old Testament - Judaism, Christianity
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
My favorites?

OT- Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. NIV

NT- Matthew 12:7 If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the innocent. NIV
 
jewscout

jewscout

Religious Zionist
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now herewith, saith HaShem of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall be more than sufficiency.
 
Bishka

Bishka

Veteran Member
jewscout said:
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now herewith, saith HaShem of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall be more than sufficiency.
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Great scripture, I've always loved that one~
 
Bishka

Bishka

Veteran Member
Deut 13:1 said:
BS 6.8- "Make up your own scripture to justify your beliefs".
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What are you talking about? In my version of the Bible (KJV), that scripture is in there.
 
Deut 13:1

Deut 13:1

Well-Known Member
beckysoup61 said:
What are you talking about? In my version of the Bible (KJV), that scripture is in there. I'm sorry that you have a problem with it. Back off.
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That was my attempt at humor... BS = Binyamin Scripture. :eek:
 
Nehustan

Nehustan

Well-Known Member
You said one line scripture, how about one word. "Mu" - Zen, taken from and delineated in Joshu's Verse.
 
nutshell

nutshell

Well-Known Member
I don't have a chance to look up the references, but here you go

NT "Jesus wept."

BOM "And Lehi dwelt in a tent."
 
nutshell

nutshell

Well-Known Member
dawny0826 said:
"Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee." Jeremiah 1:5

I have this one typed on my checks. :)
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dawny, I like that scripture too. May I ask what it means to you?
 
Nehustan

Nehustan

Well-Known Member
Nehustan said:
You said one line scripture, how about one word. "Mu" - Zen, taken from and delineated in Joshu's Verse.
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beckysoup61 said:
That works, what does it mean though?
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OK, its a word that has it's linguistic root in Chinese I believe, tho' the concept finds its way into Buddist thought by way of the Zen 'school'.

Joshu was a learned man, teacher, monk. The dog is not a particularly higly regarded creature in the east, and one of the students of Joshu asked 'does a dog have buddah (Dharma) nature?' Joshu looked at the student and replied 'Mu!'. When the student asked for an explanation Joshu walked away, so daily, then weekly, then monthly, occasionally answering again with the same word 'Mu!'. Eventually the student was in dispare, and begged for an explanation, whereupon Joshu stated his famous verse, in answer to the question 'Does a dog have Buddha nature?'

'Mu! That is the imperative! For once you begin to think that it has or it has not, you may as well be dead.'
 
dawny0826

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
nutshell said:
dawny, I like that scripture too. May I ask what it means to you?
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It reminds me that I belonged to Him before I was born.

Reminds me that my life, my soul is/was His to give and His to take away. That little verse has always given me such comfort. Reminds me WHO I belong to. :)
 
nutshell

nutshell

Well-Known Member
dawny0826 said:
It reminds me that I belonged to Him before I was born.

Reminds me that my life, my soul is/was His to give and His to take away. That little verse has always given me such comfort. Reminds me WHO I belong to. :)
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Thanks for the explanation. Certainly, everything we have, including our very existance, comes from God and, as you said, everything is his to take away. I will give anything that he asks of me willingly.

The fact that he knows us is comforting.
 
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