Important Bible Quotations Flashcards
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2 - Moses to the people
Give history of the world & nation of Israel
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike is heel.
Genesis 3:15
God about people before the flood.
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. THE LORD regretted that he had made mama beings on the earth,and his heart was deeply troubled. So the LORD said, I will whip from the. Face of the earth the human race I cre
Genesis 6:5-8
God about people before the flood
Genesis 6:5-8
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:3-7
Men who built the Tower of Babel
God to the trinity
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”[b]
Genesis 12:1-3
God to Abraham
18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.
19 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Genesis 50:18-20
God overrules human sin
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Exodus 3:1-5
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He jammed[a] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”
Exodus 14:21-25
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strongest wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
The Egyptians pursued the,and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen folllowed them into the sea. During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and loud at the Egyptians army and threw it into confusion. He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And theEgyptians said, LEt’s get away from the. Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.
The Lord said to Moses, 8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”
He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
Numbers 20:7-8, 10-12
Lord telling Moses to speak to teh Rock
Moses talking to the ISraelites
God speaking to Moses & Aaron and telling them they will not enter the promised land
Do Not Forget the Lord
8 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 8:1-2
Moses to people of Israel before they go into the Promised LAnd
Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors.Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart,whether or not you would keep his commands.
2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.
Joshua 1:2
God to Joshua after Moses died
Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give them—to the Israelites.
They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.”
Joshua 6:20-21
When the trumpets sounded the army shouted,and the sound of the trumpet, when he men gave a loud shout,the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in,and they took te city. They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old,sheep and donkeys.
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied, Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,anywhere you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
11 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
2 Kings 22:8, 10-11
Temple repairs and find teh Torah - king Josiah
Hilkiah the high. Priest said to Shaphan the secretary, I have found the Book of the Law the temple of the LORD. He gave it to Shaphan, who read it. . . Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
When the king heard the words of the Books of the Law, he tore his robes.
“‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. 3 Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
Ezra 1:2-3
King Cyrus of Persia helps the exiles return and help rebuild ruined temple
This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The LORD, the God of heaven,has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.
In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before, 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.”
I was very much afraid, 3 but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
King Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem
Nehemiah 2:1-3
In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,when win was brought before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been said in his presence before,so the king asked me, Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill?This cane nothing but sadness of heart.
I was very much afraid, but I said to the king, May the king live forever! Why should my face not look said when eh city where any. Ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?
All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.
Esther 3:2, 3:4
Mordacai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
Then the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you. Disobey the king’s command?: Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply.
14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise for another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?
Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.[a]
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 1:21
Job to servant
Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.
I know that my redeemer[a] lives,
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.[b]
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet[c] in[d] my flesh I will see God;
27 I myself will see him
with my own eyes—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
JOb to Bildad
Job 19:25-27
know that my redeemer lives, and that int eh end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet Indy flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.
Psalm 1:1-3
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise.
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
2 All a person’s ways seem pure to them,
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.
4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end—
even the wicked for a day of disaster.
Proverbs 16:2-3
a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. Commit to the LORD whatever you o, and he will establish your plans.
13 Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
Solomon
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter; Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
your name is like perfume poured out.
No wonder the young women love you!
4 Take me away with you—let us hurry!
Let the king bring me into his chambers.
Song of Songs 1:3-4
Solomon’s bride confesses her love
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you! Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers.
Isaiah 6:1-8
Isaiah’s vision of the Lord
Seraphim
ISaiah
God
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on the throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings; with two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:
Holy, holy, holy is the LORD almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips,andI live among a people of unclean lips,and my eyes have seen the king, the LORD almighty.
Then one of the seraphim flew tome with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said; See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is take away and your sin atoned for.
Then I head the voice of the LORD saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said,”here I am. Send me
ISaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Ezekiel 1:15, 16-18
Ezekiel -
As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces . . . Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved,they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced;the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
Ezekiel 36:26
God to Israelites
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Gods restoration of Israel’s people
After his wrath had been poured out