Bible Verses for the Advent Season
It’s Advent Season, which means it’s almost time for Christmas! Use this guide from Orange County Catholic schools to find the best Bible verses to help prepare your family for the holidays. Observe the season of prayer and reflection with your child, by using these passages.
Verse of Loves
Mark 13:34: “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.”
Romans 5:18: “But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”
Verse of Peace
Isaiah 26:3: “With firm purpose you maintain peace; in peace, because of our trust in you.”
Luke 2:14: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Mark 1:1-3: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God]. The Preaching of John the Baptist. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’”
Verse of Life
John 6:51: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
Matthew 10:39: “Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
John 3:36: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.”
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