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The 100 most-read Bible verses at BibleGateway.com

The 100 most-read Bible verses at BibleGateway.com
What are the most popular Bible verses on BibleGateway.com? We thought it would be interesting to find out, so we crunched some numbers from a (relatively) small sample of 25 million Bible passage searches from March and April. This list isn’t actually based on a straight popularity count; simply tallying the most-read verses results in a top 100 list that consists almost entirely of John 3:16 and verses from 1 Corinthians 13, Genesis 1, Romans 8, and Psalm 23. If you’re curious to know what the least popular Bible passage is, it’s 1 Chronicles 23-27, which details the organization of the priests and officials under King David. Here are the top 100 most-read Bible verses on BibleGateway.com (all verses quoted from the NIV):

A critical discussion on brahmacharya (celibacy) « The making of a Sarvodaya Sannyasin I had a critical discussion on brahmacharya (known as celibacy in English) with some of my friends. They raised many critical questions which I am trying my best to answer in this post. Feel free to give your feedback in comments section as it will help in learning and development of myself and other readers of this blog. Thanks, Gopal Discussion: Dear XYZ Bhai, Regarding the stress on celibacy in my post ( How to groom next generation spiritually as well as intellectually? Question.1. Yes, but nature replenishes things at a particular rate, which cannot be accelerated to an infinite degree. Situation 1. Clearly, person A has been losing much more vital elements than person B. Question 2. Question 3. DNA is not unaltered by stress and other physical and mental conditions. There is a whole new branch called Epigenetics which is studying how DNA expressions can change. DNA can be damaged by many sorts of mutagens, which change the DNA sequence. Question 5. With this I close my arguments.

Greatly inspiring brahmacharya (celibacy) quotes « The making of a Sarvodaya Sannyasin Last update on 14 Feb, 2014.Yahoo-groups for brahmacharya aspiransts: for males only and for females only.Facebook group for brahmacharya aspirants: other brahmacharya articles here, here, here and here.Year 2012: My views on marriage have completely changed in last 2 years. My latest view is that every spiritual aspirant should get married to an intellectually and spiritually compatible spouse after crossing the age of 25 provided one can find such a spouse and is emotionally and financially strong and then after having 1-2 kids before 29-30 or 32-33, both spouses should practise lifelong celibacy. (Under the age of 30 is Ramakrishna Mission’s upper age limit for monk aspirants, set by Swami Vivekananda himself and also the age when Buddha started his quest for spiritual realization and 32-33 is the upper age limit in the writings of Swami Sivananda for starting lifelong celibacy. I. Introduction II. III. IV. Hi friends, II.

BibleGateway Reading Plans 70 Make haste, o God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. 4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying. 71 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

These are wonderful verses for memorization. Once in your mind, they are always there to call upon when needed. by spinnymommy Apr 16

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