I consider all scripture to be vitally important. I could say that this verse or that verse is very important but I could not say that any one verse is the most important. However if someone did push you to say what you believe to be the most important verse or verses in the bible, what verse(s) would those be? To kick off I see Col 2.9-10 as the twin peaks of the NT

For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete.

It sums up Christ's person and work and if our church members realised they were complete in Chist how many pastoral situations could be resolved or even prevented.

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Stuart
Elder, Lambeg Baptist, Northern Ireland, UK

In Him the fulness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form and in Him you are complete (Col 2.9-10)

The sacrifice of a broken heart doth please Him but the sacrifice of a broken Christ alone doth satisfy Him (Richard Steele)

I would gently and humbly reject the premise and allude to 2 Timoth 3:16-17

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
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I strongly agree with 2 Timoth 3:16-17. However, say we were looking at this from a memorization standpoint. How would you order what to memorize first and what strategy would you take? Books at a time or a set of key verses by topics? Memorize the WSC first?

Bro Stuart, if this is too far off topic, I appologise and can move this to it's own seperate thread.

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Kenneth Murphy
M.A.R. Student [Theology & Biblical Languages] - Whitefield Theological Seminary
Covenant of Grace Church - Member
St. Charles, MO

To change the focus of the OP a "life verse" so to speak for me is Romans 10:14-17 as a personal challenge and reminder.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
Student of Theology Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

“If the Church could be aroused to a deeper sense of the glory that awaits her, she would enter with a warmer spirit into the struggles that are before her.”-- J.H. Thornwell

I was reticent in starting this thread for the reasons outlined in 2 Tim 3.16-17 and I did state it was easy to say some verses are important but could any be most important? Although we can learn many lessons, for example, from the geneologies of 1 Chron 1-9 yet the prologue to John's gospel is of more substance. Perhaps I should have phrased the question in a different way: what verse(s) in the bible do you wish people could grasp and come to terms with? Be this in a pastoral or evangelistic setting.

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Stuart
Elder, Lambeg Baptist, Northern Ireland, UK

In Him the fulness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form and in Him you are complete (Col 2.9-10)

The sacrifice of a broken heart doth please Him but the sacrifice of a broken Christ alone doth satisfy Him (Richard Steele)

Forgive me, Brother. I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything, I was simply relaying what I would do in such a situation. I hope you accept my sincere apologies if I brought offense.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
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"My kingdom is not of this world."

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

No offence taken brother, nor did I feel I was being accused of anything.

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Stuart
Elder, Lambeg Baptist, Northern Ireland, UK

In Him the fulness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form and in Him you are complete (Col 2.9-10)

The sacrifice of a broken heart doth please Him but the sacrifice of a broken Christ alone doth satisfy Him (Richard Steele)

Ecclesiastes 1:2, "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity."

Obviously not the most important verse but the entire book does me good to read every now and again.

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

How about Romans 3:23 "but now.............."

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Bruce
PCUSA
Ocean City NJ

The problem with this line of thinking is the same when people say "to interpret the unclear parts of Scripture with the clear parts." Who gets to determine which parts are clear?

What we with our modern presuppositions (which cannot help but be influenced by the Enlightenment) will differ with what the patristics and medievals thought important.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Rick Phillips, at the BoT Conf. this week, offered this exchange as the paradigmatic message of the OT:

Gen 22:7-8 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

I have to agree.

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Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


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