Living Journey

I have found something interesting for those of you who wonder about the top most referenced bible verses on websites across the Internet. There is a site called ‘Top Verses – The bible Sorted‘ and what they have done is this…

[…]analysed thousands of pages of teaching material to determine the most frequently referenced Bible verses. This information is entered into our search engine enabling it to return the most familiar verses first.

When you go to the home page it shows any of the top 1 of 1000 verses referenced on the internet, for example I went there and the current verse was…

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Exodus 20:4

Then a few minutes later it was…

“You shall not steal. Exodus 20:15

You could pretty much use this as your verse of the day to pray about and reflect on if you wanted to.

You can also go to the ‘Word Search Feature’ and find out what verses are mostly referred too for any particular word that happens to take your fancy. For example I typed in ‘Truth‘ and came across many of the verses I use in my blog when writing about absolutes, postmodernism and the emerging Church etc.

You can also find the top overall verses, top books, top chapters and top verses in books.

I was please to find that the top verses of all time were…

Rank: 1

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

Rank: 2

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

Rank: 3

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6

Rank: 4

Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19

Rank: 5

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23

Pretty much the whole gospel summed up in the first top five verses.

Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage Pagans of the wilderness [far] from all…earthly comfort…even to death itself; if it be but in Thy service and to promote thy Kingdom….

I declare, now that I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

David Brainerd. Before age 30, he died taking the gospel to American Indians. More than any other individual he was responsible for the great 19th-century missionary revival.

We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

A.W. Tozer, from Man: The Dwelling Place of God

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