Key Bible Verses
Strengthen your faith with inspiring Bible verses
Key Bible Verses
Strengthen your faith with inspiring Bible verses
Key Bible Verses Book
The Key Bible Verses book is free to download or print out for personal use (no email necessary).
It has many pages with helpful Bible verses on key topics, including...
10 Key Christian Beliefs, 25 Key Bible Characters, The Top Twelve Bible Verses, Encouraging Bible Verses, The Christian Wisdom Guide, Scripture Foundation Guide, a Daily Prayer, and Highlights of the Life of Jesus.
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This website, and the Key Bible Verses book, are meant to encourage you to read the Bible, help you find important verses to memorize, strengthen your faith, and provide knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
If you are new to Christianity, or just here out of curiosity, I recommend reading the page, Is Jesus the Son of God? I believe this is the most important question we could answer, along with, Is God Real? If you read those and find yourself more interested, come back here and finish reading this home page.
Many people are interested in what the Bible says but they feel like they don't have time to read it, or they are intimidated at the thought of reading through the entire Bible. The Key Bible Verses book and this website are meant to encourage you to read the Bible and memorize important verses. Maybe it would help to think of it like this, God is your heavenly father, and He wrote the Bible for you.
Just read four chapters each day and you will finish the Bible in one year. I’ve found two chapters a day works for me. I would recommend starting with the New Testament, then I would consider the book of Proverbs, as that has a lot of practical wisdom. Then finish the rest of the Old Testament.
I’ve read the Bible many times, and each time I learn new helpful lessons, because I’m going through a new chapter or season of my life.
My favorite Bibles are the Life Applications Study Bible, the Apologetics Study Bible, and the English Standard Version (ESV) Study Bible, because they provide helpful notes about important verses. There are even study Bibles with helpful notes just for men, women, teens, and some popular careers. If you do commit to reading the whole Bible, I highly recommend taking notes, or maybe keep a Bible reading journal. That is how this whole website and my Key Bible Verses book got started.
If you have not yet memorized Bible verses, or Scripture, I would recommend with the following great verses to help strengthen your faith. You can find more about these, including supporting verses and why I chose them, on the Top Twelve Bible Verses page.
Knowledge
1. The Bible is God’s word (2 Tim 3:16)
2. God created the universe (Gen 1:1)
3. God created humans in His image (Gen 1:27)
Understanding
4. There is power in your mind - Be transformed by renewing your mind (Ro 12:2)
5. There is power in your words (Pro 18:21)
6. There is power in your relationships - God gave His only Son and whoever believes in Him will have eternal life (Jn 3:16) (Jesus)
Wisdom
Key Daily Opportunities...
7. Blessed are those who get wisdom and understanding (Pro 3:13)
8. Let your light shine and give glory to God (Mt 5:16) (Jesus)
Key Challenges...
9. Walk in the Spirit to resist the desires of the flesh (Gal 5:16)
10. We wrestle against spiritual forces (Eph 6:12)
Key Daily Choices...
11. Have faith in God (Mk 11:22) (Jesus)
12. Love God and people (Mt 22:37-40) (Jesus)
Why memorize Scripture?
Faith comes by hearing the word of God (Ro 10:17).
God’s word is the sword of the Spirit (Eph 6:17), our weapon against spiritual adversaries (Mt 4:4-10).
The Bible tells us it is helpful (Ps 119:11, 2 Tim 3:16-17)
We are sanctified in truth, God’s word is truth (Jn 17:17) (Jesus)
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth (1 Cor 13:6).
Psalm 119, the longest Psalm, is all about God’s word, referring to it as God’s word, law, precepts, statutes, rules, testimonies, and commandments. Psalm 119:4 says, “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
I find it interesting the two previous Psalms are about God’s love, and Psalm 118 is a medium length Psalm, but Psalm 117 is the shortest Psalm. It’s like God is prepping the reader for the long Psalm of His word.
If you are not yet interested or ready to read the entire Bible, the Key Bible Verses pdf is the next best thing. Or, if you want to read some great chapters in the Bible I would recommend these terrific twelve Bible chapters...
- John 1 - Origin of Jesus
- Mark 2 - Acts of Jesus
- Proverbs 3 - Trust God and get wisdom and understanding
- Philippians 4 - Be reasonable and use your logic
- Galatians 5 - Freedom in Christ and how the desires of the flesh oppose the Spirit
- Ephesians 6 - Spiritual adversaries and your armor of God
- Matthew 7 - Teaching of Jesus (including the Golden Rule, verse 12)
- Romans 8 - Life in the Spirit and God’s everlasting love through Jesus
- 1 Corinthians 9 - Service, and self-discipline
- Luke 10 - Service, Jesus sends out more disciples, and the Good Samaritan
- Hebrews 11 - Faith and VIPs of the Bible
- Romans 12 - Gifts of grace and marks of a true Christian
The Bible can be considered a history book, from God. No respectable historian discounts the Bible as a credible historical document. The Old Testament was written by more than 40 people, on multiple continents, over the course of more than 1,000 years. But, all the books in the New Testament were written in less than 100 years. Many people also consider it our manual for life.
Inside the Bible's pages are the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known (Ronald Reagan).
The books of the Bible include priceless and timeless truths, including the nature of God (Psalms 117 and Proverbs 6:16-19), how God created humans (Genesis 1:26, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, & 2 Timothy 1:7), human nature (Galatians 5:16-26), the natural laws God created on earth (Romans 1:18-20), and many helpful principles around these truths(2 Timothy 3:16-17).
The Bible also says we all struggle with sin (Romans 3:23) that is rooted in our desires of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). That we have spiritual adversaries (Ephesians 6:12) who accuse and deceive (Revelations 12:9-10), steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). The Bible also gives us ways we can resist our desires of the flesh (Galatians 5:17 & 22-23) and ways to resist our spiritual adversaries (Ephesians 6:14-17, John 10:10, & 1 John 4:4).
Best of all, the Bible tells us that God is not partial and does not favor one person over another (Romans 2:11), and nothing can separate us from God's love through Jesus Christ (Romans 8:38-39), who paid for our sins so we could have eternal life with God (John 3:16), and who calls us to a good life (Matthew 5, 6, & 7), to love God and other people (Matthew 22:37-40), and have faith in God (Mark 11:22 & Romans 10:17).
My concern is not whether God is on our side. My concern is to be on God's side, because God is always right (Abraham Lincoln).
Is Christianity a Religion or Relationship
I believe Christianity is both, a religion and a relationship with the Holy Triune. I would define religion as a collection of human traditions that help people improve their spiritual understanding and improve their life on earth. At the heart of improving our life on earth is our relationships, with spiritual powers and other humans.
Over 75 percent of the population on earth claim to believe in one of the four largest religions. All four of the largest religions believe humans are naturally sinful, or depraved, and in need of personal and spiritual growth, which is why they have sacred documents with lots of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. All four of the largest religions teach us that we can improve our lives through wisdom, caring, and courage.
Spiritual growth doesn’t have to focus on a specific religion, though that could help, because there are many people who have studied religions and can help you learn quicker and better, instead of taking the time to figure it out on your own.
Religions have proven principles that have helped people live better lives for centuries. Of course, religion is led by humans, who all have their own strengths and weaknesses. Jesus was the only perfect human to ever walk the earth. Even the VIPs of the Bible had weaknesses and made mistakes. But God forgave them and helped them, as they repented and were willing. Check the Key Bible Characters page.
Christianity is the largest of the major religions on earth. Christianity is based on the Bible, which claims over 1,000 times that it is from God (search a digital King James Version Bible for phrases like "saith the Lord," and "word of the Lord"). Plus, 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (KJV).
Other Pages With Inspiring Scripture
This website has great pages to help you with important Bible verses on key topics.
My favorite pages are… Is God Real? and Is Jesus the Son of God?
The Encouraging Bible Verses page has 60 of the best encouraging verses.
The Christian Wisdom Guide helps understand and navigate the world from a biblical perspective.
The Key Christian Beliefs provides verses on foundational Christian beliefs.
The Key Bible Characters provides highlights to the stories of 20 key Bible characters.
The Daily Prayer is about a 7 minute read, and a great way to start the day.
The Scripture Foundation has Bible verses for many key topics in life.
The Christian Resources page has a lot of links to Christian resources.
If this page was interesting or helpful please link to it and share it. Thanks!
The Way: Live, Learn, and Love
With grace and truth, the better our lives will be.
Individually and collectively, apply them and see.
With caring and courage, the more we know.
Individually and collectively, apply them and grow.
With love and wisdom, we improve humanity.
Ideally and practically, working towards unity.
With our words and actions echoing in eternity.
- Jason A. Krause
Download or print your personal copy of the Key Bible Verses Book for free (no email necessary at this time). It includes many pages of this website.
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