What is a famous Bible passage?

A passage page is a deep look at a single, well-known section of Scripture — Psalm 23, the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes — with context, meaning, and cross-references.

Why study famous passages instead of just reading the Bible?

Famous passages are the doors most people first walk through. Studying them carefully unlocks the deeper themes that run throughout the rest of Scripture.

Do passage pages include commentary?

Yes — every passage page includes editorial commentary, historical context, key cross-references, and related topics.

Passages

The passages we keep returning to

Some passages have walked beside generations — for funerals, weddings, midnight prayers, and ordinary mornings. These are theirs.

19 passages

Psalm 23
Psalm 23
The shepherd psalm — six verses that have walked beside more grief, more weddings, more bedside prayers than any other in scripture.
Psalm 91
Psalm 91
A psalm of refuge — for nights when the world feels louder than your faith.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 13 — The Love Chapter
Paul's hymn to love — read at weddings, but written to a divided church about how to live together.
Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord's Prayer
The prayer Jesus taught his disciples when they asked him how to pray.
Matthew 5:3-12
The Beatitudes
Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount by upending who gets called blessed.
Romans 8:35-39
Romans 8 — Nothing Can Separate Us
Paul's defiant assurance: there is no place outside the reach of God's love.
Proverbs 31:10-31
Proverbs 31 — A Woman of Noble Character
The closing portrait of Proverbs — strength, wisdom, kindness, and the fear of the LORD.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Isaiah 40 — They Shall Mount Up With Wings
A word for the weary — the everlasting God does not faint.
John 3:16-21
John 3:16-21 — For God So Loved the World
The most quoted six verses in scripture — God's love, the world's rescue, and the light that judges what we love most.
Hebrews 11
Hebrews 11 — The Hall of Faith
A roll call of the faithful from Abel to the prophets — each one trusting God for what they could not yet see.
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53 — The Suffering Servant
Seven hundred years before the cross, Isaiah saw a servant despised, pierced, and bearing the iniquity of us all.
Matthew 11:28-30
Matthew 11:28-30 — Come to Me, All Who Are Weary
Three verses Jesus addressed to the tired — a yoke that is easy, a burden that is light, and rest for the soul.
Philippians 4:4-9
Philippians 4:4-9 — Rejoice in the Lord Always
Paul, writing from prison, hands the church the antidote to anxiety: prayer, thanksgiving, and the peace that guards.
Ephesians 6:10-18
Ephesians 6:10-18 — The Armor of God
Truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, and the word of God — the whole armor for the day of evil.
Psalm 46
Psalm 46 — God Is Our Refuge and Strength
The psalm behind Luther's 'A Mighty Fortress' — when mountains shake and nations rage, be still and know.
Genesis 1
Genesis 1 — In the Beginning
The Bible's opening chapter — a measured, repeating refrain in which God speaks creation into being and calls it good.
Ecclesiastes 3
Ecclesiastes 3 — A Time for Every Purpose
A time to be born and a time to die — the Preacher's poem on the seasons of human life under heaven.
John 14
John 14 — In My Father's House Are Many Rooms
Jesus' farewell discourse — the way, the truth, the life, the promise of the Spirit, and a peace the world cannot give.
Revelation 21
Revelation 21 — A New Heaven and a New Earth
The Bible's closing vision — God dwelling with his people, every tear wiped away, and all things made new.

Frequently asked questions

A passage page is a deep look at a single, well-known section of Scripture — Psalm 23, the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes — with context, meaning, and cross-references.

Editorial note

Each passage page is hand-built — original-language notes, historical context, cross-references, and a careful, plain-English commentary. About Devine Scripture.