Passages
The passages we keep returning to
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.
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- 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.
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