Might as well...

[kerravonsen]

From various people...

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)

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[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Biblical verses. (I thought of this on the bus into town, and then spent some time trying to decide if "He saith among the trumpets 'Ha ha!'" would make mine, and decided not, because it's like "He slew a lion in a pit on a snowy day", you know, the sort of thing people remember only because it's funny. It is a lovely line, though.)

[temeres.livejournal.com]

I like the OT reference to motorcycling: "The roar of David's Triumph was heard throughout the land."

[kerravonsen]

8-P

[kerravonsen]

I'm doing this as groups of verses, because they don't make sense without context.

"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you, too, be like him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes."
(Proverbs 26:4-5)

"More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us."
(Romans 5:3-5)

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
(Philippians 1:21)

"I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what it right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me."
(Romans 7:15-20)

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because he first loved us."
(I John 4:18)

For sentimental and obscure reasons, I'm also rather fond of Job 6:6.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm also rather fond of Job 6:6.

It depends, really; it can be quite tasty in a souffle.

[kerravonsen]

Well, actually the reason is because it isn't "the white of an egg", but all the translators do it as "the white of an egg" because they don't know what "the slime of the purslain" is. It's the only occurrance of the word in the Bible, y'see, and they don't know what it's referring to. Which is why I like the verse. 8-P

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Ah, a hapax legomenon! But does that prove it wouldn't be tasty in a souffle?