/lit/ - Literature

>>21708333
πάντες ὑμεῖς σκανδαλισθήσεσθε ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ, γέγραπται γάρ, πατάξω τὸν ποιμένα, καὶ διασκορπισθήσονται τὰ πρόβατα τῆς ποίμνης

One day Hell will be emptied and its doors will rattle in the wind

So faith, hope, love remain; these three. But the greatest of these is love.

Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 1 Peter 2:17

אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2069&version=KJV

>>21708375
3:14

>>21708384
That's your favorite bible verse? OP said very clearly there were to be no chuds

"A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied." - Proverbs 13:4

>>21708392
Psalm 69 is one of my favourite psalms, there are many verses to chose from. To me this verse is poetic because I was homeless for a couple of years and lived on the streets of a major city. The entire time I would try and stay clean and pretend I wasn't homeless and I would wonder why despite my best efforts and faith I was stuck there and nothing was working out while everyone else had everything handed to them. Whenever I thought I had nothing left to lose, something else would be taken from me. I don't have a victim mentality and understand now what all that was all about, but at the same time going through that stuff gave this verse new meaning.

The latter half of Job has some very memorable stuff also, 1 Timothy 6:10 was the first verse of the bible that stuck with me, I've had it memorized since I first read it at 12 years old or so.

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

Never has a text resonated with me like this one.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%203&version=NIV

Psalm 51:17

>>21708348
based but isn't this from islamic hadith?
>>21708361
gay

>>21708416
Thank you for sharing that. I've had a taste of homelessness before and it is rather humiliating to be treated like you're unworthy of dignity as a systematic protocol, I am sorry you went through that. I would be interested to hear more about how this experience has contributed to your reception of that verse you posted about the table snares

>>21708438
I think Jesus said it best:
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?".

I learned a lot of valuable, hard lessons in those times. I shed a lot of social conditioning, pride, weakness etc and I wouldn't take it back. You couldn't trade all of the money in the world for the things I have learned or the experiences I have had, it's a free gift from God which I am thankful for.

>>21708333
1 John 4:16

Fuck you OP I’m posting a Christian quote anyway
> God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
God bless you OP

John 3: 15-17
and
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

This verse feels somewhat incomplete outside of the context of the entire book of Ecclesiastes, but is the OT book that has had the largest impact on me.

>>21708333
Jesus Wept.

>>21708333
2 Esdras 4:12
>Then said I unto him, It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.

i don't understand how a goy can love a jewish mental masturbation so much

>>21708463
Ok, but could explain how this verse changed your life for the better? Are you still homeless? Or has the verse simply allowed you to accept being homeless?

More DETAILS man stop being coy

>>21708560
No longer homeless, fully self actualized, lots of friends and a very healthy relationship with a great partner. I used to think I was doomed, psychotic, weird, damaged, a failure and now I live in abundance and my moment to moment experience in life is blissful everyday.

>>21708581
Ok, but can you explain how the verse helped with that? What changes did you make that were influenced by the verse?

I don't have high hopes. I smell bullshit already.

>>21708587
I never said this verse specifically helped me to not be homeless, I said that it was meaningful to me because of that experience I had. I simply am very lucky to be blessed with a normal stable life and a sound mind.

>>21708587
I will say however that there are a lot verses in the bible which I personally found to be really helpful in those times.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2021&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2012%3A1&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2037&version=KJV

The book of Revelation 21-4

"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

The Gospel of Saint John 1-5

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18

I learned that verse the first time I read the Bible after many years again. After this verse I realized the Bible is not a stupid book and contains wisdom I have not even remotely tapped. It also foreshadowed how the next couple of years of my life played out, that the more knowledged I gained, the more sorrows I will have, and to acquire wisdom a lot of grief I had to endure.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?
He does whatever he pleases.
14 He carries out his decree against me,
and many such plans he still has in store.
15 That is why I am terrified before him;
when I think of all this, I fear him.
16 God has made my heart faint;
the Almighty has terrified me.
17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,
by the thick darkness that covers my face.

>>21708333
Go in unto thy brother's wife and raise up seed unto thy brother - Genesis 38:8

Revelations 2: The Lamb Returns To Grope The Lion Back

It's one of those awkward sequels that was marketing focused to just get people in the seats and spending money and who cares if they liked it

>>21708581
I'm really happy for you man, congratulations. I guess I'm with that other guy in wanting to know how a verse about using the trust of someone against them as a snare by vexing their needs against them has in any way influenced that positive outcome for you

>>21708801
that's not what I took away from that verse. In the bible there is a common theme of a righteous person looking at the world and wondering why God would allow the wicked to prosper while the righteous suffer, and to me at that time I felt that I understood sentiment. Again that verse just struck a chord within me at that time, it wasn't necessarily helpful.

What I did learn from the Bible eventually is that things are the way that they are because God made it so, and I was the root cause of my own problems and suffering the entire time. Once I learned the lessons I needed to learn, my life magically turned around for the better permanently and almost instantly.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Is 53

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

For Esau is the end of the world and Jacob is beginning which followeth

>>21708333
>Ego et Pater unum sumus
https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_nt_evang-ioannem_lt.html#10

>>21708333
>no chuds
>no larpers
You’ve come to the wrong place

Every time work or some other bullshit gets on my mind, I try to remember Luke 12:25.

"And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"

Jeremiah 17:9 KJV

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

IMO one of the most potent and poetic lines in the bible, also a sort of direct rebuke to the hippy dippy evangelicals who are all into "following your heart". The heart is a liar, the greatest liar, only having competition from the Jews, righteousness must be sought out.

>no larpers
thread doa

>>21708333
4: 20-69

>>21708333
>In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Song of Solomon 4:5

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

>>21711956
little curiosity, John 10:7
the "door for the sheep" calls to how their currals were
it was often was something akin to a low-walled circle with an opening; shepherds would put barbs and spiked branches on top so that predators didn't jump over, and here's the important bit: the shepherd slept in that opening, to protect the sheep.

>>21711980
so, taking the words for the metaphorical meaning, Christ guards us with His life.
John 10 is such a beautiful chapter.

>needing anything beside Genesis 1:1
amateurs.

>>21711980
>>21711983
Lovely insight anon, thank you

>>21712009
glad to tell you something new!
the more i learn about the Bible, theologically and contextually, the more beautiful and perfect it gets.

if only all people gave it an honest read.

>>21708333
Psalm 22 oddly enough, although 23 is much nicer in a sense. In a moment of crisis I flipped through and at random my finger landed on it. Touching humility.

>>21712017
The one thing that strikes the most is the intertextuality and typologies between the OT and the NT.

A little example of that is in Genesis 1 where a consistent theme is God controlling and shaping the "waters" as He creates the world. We then see Jesus walking on water and having full control of it in Matthew 14, Mark 6 and John 6 to the extent that He is able to subdue the waves.

>>21712042
i specially like the prophecies and their conclusions shown. my favorite is probably Isaiah 53.
basically all of the prophetical works, to be honest.

may i ask your denomination and such?
might have some honest questions if you're up for some apologetical debate.

>ctrl+f
>donkey’s dicks
>0 results
Apply yourselves.

Rev 3:9

>>21708333
Mark 9:23
>Jesus said to him,“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

>>21712065
Once you go through all the prophecies, down to the Messiah being born in Bethlehem per Micah 5:2.

As for denomination I'm hoping to be baptised into the Eastern Orthodox church at some point but my current circumstances make that quite difficult so it's a question of patience per the priests that I have spoken to. Given that I'm a spiritual infant when it comes to these things it's not really my place to debate, my sincere apologies though!

>>21712079
You should read what St John Chrysostom had to say about the Jews in his "Adversus Judaeos"
>Hear how the prophet bit them to fast. "Sanctify a fast", he said. He did not say: "Make a parade of your fasting", but "call an assembly; gather together the ancients". But these Jews are gathering choruses of effeminates and a great rubbish heap of harlots; they drag into the synagogue the whole theater, actors and all. For there is no difference
between the theater and the synagogue.
>>21712094
Forgot to add in the first sentence "... it's even more damning when the Pharisees denied Him"

Luke 12:48
"But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

Two things I take away from this verse:
1) Be merciful to people who make an honest mistake
2) If you have been given much in this life you are expected to give much as well.


It's more than one verse but my overall favorite Bible story is in Matthew when Peter tries to walk on the water like Jesus. He does it for a little bit but then he falls in and starts drowning. Jesus walks over to him and pulls him out of the water. When Peter asks why he fell in Jesus said it was because his faith waivered.

This shows that with enough faith we can be like Jesus and if we ever falter, he will be right there to save you.

>>21712094
alrighty.
posting iconographical work i thought you'd be a good apologist for that and some other things.
i haven't really heard an honest answer that wasn't the usual, and i was not sold on the pseudo-catholics parroting the same faulty analogy.

what's with all the ill-studied criticism that goes around?
i specially dislike it when people criticize by saying "Jesus never said He was God" when he does so four times and the Sanhedrin leaders literally say they're stoning Him because He claimed to be God.

>>21712123
It's mostly pushed by Muslims who hold the gold medal for the most retarded apologetics known to man. They'll quote some part of the NT where Jesus says something like "The Father is greater than I" and say look the Bible doesn't say Jesus is God and then you just ask them to read on a little bit more to see the fuller context and they'll say that the Bible is corrupt. So why are you quoting from a corrupt book to support your apologetics? It's the most schizophrenic thing I've seen.

Also they dismiss Jesus saying "Before Abraham was I AM" as a claim to deity. Genuine retardation

Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

>>21712119
All good, maybe someone more capable of debating can step in then

>>21711295
The Septuagint says something different, though the LXX is about an eighth shorter than the (((Masoretic))), and that line appears in the fifth verse of the chapter.

Jeremiah 17:5 OSB
>The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is man. Even so, who can know it?

micah 7:18-19
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

>>21712223
>(((Masoretic)))
Pretty funny how the Dead Sea Scrolls say "they have pierced my hands and feet" but the Masoretic says "like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet"

>>21708333
>Jesus said, "What the kingdom of the father resembles is a man who wanted to assassinate a member of court. At home, he drew the dagger and stabbed it into the wall in order to know whether his hand would be firm. Next, he murdered the member of court.

>The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1

Maybe a bit of a cheesy take but I used to be pretty self-conscious/paranoid of others and this verse (among other things of course) made me realize that if you "flee", i.e. you act like a scared little weirdo, then there is a seed of wickedness inside you somewhere. As soon as you remove it, you will turn into a lion or at least an especially feisty house cat.

>>21712109
Pretty good.

>>21712472
Damn you are right. I act like a coward because I have wickedness in me. Thanks anon.

>>21712472
If you have nothing to lose you can't have fear. Therefore the one who is completely devoid of desire is devoid of fear.

I'm not a good Bible scholar nor have I read the entire book but the part where Jacob mourns for Joseph made me emotional

>>21712662
Sounds Buddhist or something. Why shouldn't I have all the desires?

>>21712443
W-what? Wasn't Jesus a pacifist?

>>21712700
No.

>>21708333
what does OP mean by "no chuds"?

not a verse, but a whole chapter. this one always strucks a chord in me unlike any other

Ecclesiastes 11

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

>Whatever lies in thy power, do while do it thou canst; there will be no doing, no scheming, no wisdom or skill left to thee in the grave, that soon shall be thy home.
Ecclesiastes 9:10, Knox version.

“A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything.”

>>21713019
Read the BIBILE and you know

>There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:20

>>21708333
„În norod s-au ridicat şi prooroci mincinoşi, cum şi între voi vor fi învăţători mincinoşi, care vor strecura pe furiş erezii nimicitoare,...” (2 Petru 2:1)

>>21713379

From Genesis 19:
[30] And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
[31] And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
[32] Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
[33] And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
[34] And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our Father.
[35] And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
[36] Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

>>21712094

>And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

current fav
>>21713747

>>21713203
>that pessimism at the end

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

>>21714514
I love Judges.
ISIS were channeling some serious book of Judges energy in their prime.
I must read the Qu'ran one day.

>>21708333
Jesus wept

>>21713791
You realize this passage only applies to the book of revelation and isn't a protestant gottem right?

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

>>21714808
basado

>>21713510
1. Horus didn't die on a cross
2. Horus was born from a widow, not a virgin
3. Horus didn't have 12 disciples, he had 4 parallel gods
4. Horus wasn't resurrected, nor he was resurrected after 3 days
5. Horus was born in October or November (Khloak month)
6. He was never baptized (he rather is torn apart by alligators in the waters than baptized)
7. i am not going to decompose this nonsense any more because you see where i am going, there is no similarity.

>>21714661

>>21714931

>>21714938
ye who cares pal
all I know is that jihad is kino and that goat herders in toyotas beat the world's most sophisticated military

The whole of the sermon on the mount.

>>21715155
>beat the world's most sophisticated military
Here's your (You).

>>21713379
I'm a zoophile and I approve of this one

the chuds showed up

>>21715155
Only when Democrats are in charge.
It was a completely different story during W and Trump.

>>21708333
Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Saviour.

>>21708559
cope.
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

>>21708333
>From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” >He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
based god looking out for the bald community

>Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Psalm 88
14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

>>21716091
reminds me of saint augustine having his room, where he died, plastered with posters of the psalms
the same house that survived the city burning down or smth

These two I had put onto the cards for my father's memorial service.
Matthew 11:28-30
John 14:27

A few years later I talked with a preacher (customer of mine) and he gave me those two verses in the same order.
I'm not religious because I heavily dislike the Catholic church, was never confirmed or baptized or anything like it. I did attempt reading the bible a couple of times but quit. Orthodoxy and every single denomination besides Catholic seem fake and gay. It feels like every sect or branch or what have you sort of grazes the truth but doesn't actually provide anything for you. I also cannot stand the many things you REALLY should do like communion, the process of being confirmed, etc. Not sure what to do with myself. I struggle with faith more than anything, whenever I actually have prayed in my life nothing has come of it. I don't know anons. But these are my favorite verses regardless.

>>21716604
>I did attempt reading the bible a couple of times but quit.
if u liked that John quote, you can read John and Mark, they are the best books in the Bible (coming from someone with ADHD); also read Genesis until you got bored; Ecclesiastes (may have other name or not be included in protestant Bible...) summarizes ALL of the Old Testament in case you need a tl;dr... was written by a dude after the Hebrews were wiped out (some theories, including Jewish ones, say that only the First Temple, said by David and built by Solomon, was the one that harbored the holy spirit and everything from then on until Jesus was a deception... not to get into the "rabbi business" which more likely than not is just Jews extorting/exterminating astrologers)

>>21716604
>Orthodoxy and every single denomination besides Catholic seem fake and gay.
That is true, with so many arguments it's not worth listing.
>I also cannot stand the many things you REALLY should do like communion, the process of being confirmed, etc.
Largely depends on the priest... fortunately or unfortunately. If you would like it, you can consider yourself confirmed, witnessed by us, according to standards of the Catholic Rite by which persons were confirmed in faith from the days and blessings of St. Peter.

>>21716730
But I am not religious, as much as I live (almost as best I can) a life of religious value. Sexual activities are my worst vice and the hardest habit to kick. This confirmation wouldn't mean anything to me or anyone else. Church also feels alien to me, interaction with others is painful sometimes. I'll never be normal and pretending to be a normie is exhausting at best.

>>21716770
So you don't want to. Alright. Don't need to get all hysterical about it, like a satanist pissing itself.

John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

>>21716842
i want the original language version of that, friend

>>21716898
Why?

this is my favorite:

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth."

what is more true than that?

>>21708333
john 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.

>>21717861
Same for me.
There's hope and love even in the middle of darkness and that Love and Hope is Jesus Christ, our Lord in Heaven.

“Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone”

>>21716829
I'm not hysterical. I just feel like I don't belong despite everyone's best efforts to convince me that I do.

>>21718025
>mfw I've sinned
It's over

>>21708333
Deuteronomy 23:1
A man whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off may never join the assembly of the Lord.

>>21708333
Hebrews 4:12 describes how I felt about the Bible so perfectly and well. It’s one of my favorite verses

I form the light and create the darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

>>21713791
>>21714803
>For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

>And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

>>21708333
nice get.
Not cliche verse that I've always like is
Job 39:19-25

I'm an NKJV kinda guy.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+39:19-25&version=NKJV

>>21708375
English, nigger

>>21708416
>while everyone else had everything handed to them.

>>21711346
kek

>>21708559
The only Christian goycattle which masturbate jews are retarded american evangelicals. Jews killed Jesus and never repented of that.

>>21708333
Nice numbers
I like the part that explicitly mentions the Trinity.

>>21719791
John 1:1?