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These are some bible verses I find helpful or interesting. If you think they're a bit fluffy, try actually living by them.

Old Testament | New Testament – Gospels | New Testament – Epistles

Old Testament

If serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day who you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.
 

O LORD, you have searched me
      and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
      you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down
      you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
      you know it completely, O LORD.
You hem me in—behind and before;
      you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
      too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
      Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
      if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
      if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
      your right hand will hold me fast.
 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths.
 

There is a time for everything,
         and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
         a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
         a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
         a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
         a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
         a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
         a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
         a time for war and a time for peace.
 
What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
 

New Testament – Gospels

Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they don’t sow or reap or store away in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you much more valuable than they are? Who of you by worrying can add a single inch to his height?
 
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They don't labour or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and is thrown into the fire tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much more, you of little faith? So don’t worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But first seek his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. So don’t worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
 

Don’t judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
 

"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it won’t be taken away from her."
 

[Seen on the doorway of the chapel on Mount Nebo in Jordan, where Moses died:]
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
 

New Testament – Epistles

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but don't have love, I'm only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but don't have love, I gain nothing.
 
Love is patient, love is kind. It doesn't envy, it doesn't boast, it isn't proud. It isn't rude, it isn't self-seeking, it's not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they'll cease; where there are tongues, they'll be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see only a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
 
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
 

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Don't be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things... And the God of peace will be with you.
 

Note on the translation
This text was taken from the New International Version and modified into the way I read it off the page. Heresy, maybe, but it's the way I speak to God – in modern vernacular English...