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These are the passages to know by heart before you need them, because anxiety rarely gives notice. 1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. The command to hand over anxiety…
Chapter study
…asks them to agree. He tells an anxious church exactly what to do with anxiety. He gives a list of what to think about. He tells his own story of learning contentment rather than simply commanding it in others. Ask, as…
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…those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. Paul uses a related word about his own concern for the churches, without confessing sin. Concern that drives a…
Chapter study
…to leave behind. A vine, a husbandman, and a claim only Jesus makes Verses 1 to 2 Jesus opens with the seventh and final 'I am' statement in John's Gospel: I am the true vine. Israel had long been pictured as God's…
Chapter study
…one verse at a time. There is no reason to hurry through thirty nine verses that have carried the church for two thousand years. If I am still a sinner, how can I be certain God will never turn away from me? Romans 7…
Chapter study
…this chapter. Genesis 22 is one of the most important passages in the Bible, and without it much of the New Testament loses its depth. Some chapters can be read quickly without much loss. This is not one of them.…
Chapter study
…are part of the writing. This is the first murder recorded in the Bible. It is not the first sin recorded in the Bible, and the chapter does not claim to record everything that happened in these generations. Why did God…
Chapter study
…songbook. Read it first as one piece. The psalm describes one person in verses 1 to 3, denies all of it of another in verses 4 to 5, and closes in verse 6 by naming two ways. Everything in the study below comes out of…
Chapter study
Psalm 23 is one of the most quoted passages in the Bible and one of the least observed. Many people carry it in memory without ever slowing down to notice how carefully every sentence is arranged. David is not writing…
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…given to you as well. Jesus makes the same distinction between need and anxiety, and sets both under the Father's knowledge. Who the promise is spoken to Verse 19 is not a general principle floating free of the letter.…
Bible study
Paul's field manual for anxiety, written from a prison cell Philippians 4:6-7 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of…
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…as a Son, not as an employee. Third, His love is the place you remain, verses 9 and 10. Continue you in my love. That is where the branch is: not in its own resolve, but in a love that was given before any fruit…
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…to a brother rather than about him. am-i-my-brothers-keeper Does the Bible answer Cain's question, Am I my brother's keeper? Cain asks it as an evasion. Scripture answers it at length, and the answer is action rather…
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…The context is having and not having. Paul lists four conditions in two verses: abased and abounding, full and hungry. Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. All these things is the…
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…mount Moriah as the site of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem. Those two verses are the Bible's own testimony, and together they connect Abraham's altar with the place Israel would later bring its offerings. What Scripture…
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…have been true, but it would not have carried him through the next five verses. What he needs is not a distant sovereign but someone who notices when one animal is missing. This is why the psalm is written in the first…
Devotional
…accomplishes nothing without God's blessing on it. The psalm moves in verses 3-5 to speak of children as a heritage from Yahweh, which fits the same theme: the things people most strive to secure, houses, cities, and…
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…inheritance reserved in heaven for those kept by the power of God. Read verses 35 to 39 aloud and let the list do its work. Whatever you are afraid will finally cut you off is either named there or covered by nor any…
Christian Living
…The command to cast has a reason attached to it: He cares for you. Anxiety is not defeated by deciding to feel calm but by transferring the weight to Someone strong enough and interested enough to hold it. Father, You…
Topic study
…the timing, and even the timing is in faithful hands. That is why the Bible can speak of hope as something a person holds fast, something that does not make a person ashamed, something laid up in heaven. A wish cannot…
Topic study
…petition, lament, intercession, and silence held in his presence. The Bible never presents prayer as a technique. It presents it as the ordinary language of a covenant. God has spoken, and prayer is how the person who…
Biblical concept
…commanded at that moment. John does not explain the hard sayings of verses 53-58 as a ceremony; he places them alongside verse 35, where coming to Jesus and believing in him are the terms he himself uses for what he…
Biblical concept
…of God, tying his presence to assurance. The Spirit is present from the Bible's opening verses, moving over the waters before there is light, land or a living soul, and Scripture never introduces him as a force to be…
Christian Living
…content with that. WEB 1-timothy 6 Paul calls contentment gain, which reverses the usual accounting. He also sets the bar startlingly low: food and clothing. Contentment in the New Testament is learned rather than…
Christian Living
…it, and let me say with the psalmist that I shall yet praise You. The Bible gives the downcast believer permission to be honest and a reason to keep hoping in God. 1 Kings 19:4-9 God feeds and lets Elijah sleep before…
Christian Living
…21:4 The promise that death itself is finally undone. What does the Bible say about grief? Bible verses for the death of a loved one grief-and-loss
Christian Living
…Crucified with Christ, and Christ living in me. Who am I in Christ? Bible verses about identity and self worth identity-in-christ
Christian Living
…I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. What does the Bible say about loneliness? Bible verses for feeling alone Does God care that I am lonely? loneliness
Christian Living
…made perfect in weakness. What does Philippians 4:13 really mean? Bible verses for strength when you are weak strength
Biblical concept
…the serpent deceived her. It describes being led astray, and in the verses that follow it does not remove her from the account God takes. Genesis Deception enters through speech about God, not through force. Prophets…
Bible question
…let your requests be made known to God. WEB Read God's words on anxiety before you read anyone's explanation of them, including ours. Philippians 4:6-7 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition…
Bible question
…speak to a people who will be carried into Babylon, and the surrounding verses answer nations trusting their own idols, Isaiah 41:6-7. That is why the reason given is presence rather than escape. The same section says…
Bible question
…people who genuinely did not know about tomorrow. The passage follows verses about treasure and two masters, Matthew 6:19-24. Worry is placed in the context of what a person is actually trusting, which is why seek first…
Bible question
…means never wanting anything to change, which does not fit a Bible full of honest complaint and prayer for relief. Others are genuinely poor and have heard verses about contentment used to silence a real need, which…
Bible question
…jar of meal did not run out and the oil did not fail until rain came, verses 14 to 16. God's care reached the smallest household budget in the account. It is worth noticing that the supply was daily rather than…
Bible question
…Whatever you do leaves nothing outside. The audience in the surrounding verses includes household slaves, so this is addressed to people with the least interesting and least free work imaginable. Genesis 2:15 Yahweh God…
Bible question
…the church a Gospel. Luke's stated aim was certainty about Christ. The Bible's authorship question exists for the sake of knowing him reliably. It is the fairest question a newcomer can ask. If a book claims to be from…
Bible question
…James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss. The Bible names real obstacles: wrong motives, unrepented sin in Psalm 66:18, cherished injustice in Isaiah 1, and how a man treats his wife in 1 Peter 3:7.…
Bible question
…others are asking the settled theological question honestly: does the Bible teach that a genuine believer can finally and completely fall away from Christ, or does it teach that everyone truly regenerate will be kept to…
Bible question
…or a real empty cupboard behind it, not as a theory. Many have heard verses about provision used as guarantees of comfort, and then felt that God failed them when a hard season came. Others have prayed and watched…
Bible question
…and the chapter opens with mountains and hills called as witnesses. Verses 6 and 7 put words in the mouth of an anxious worshiper who assumes God's will must be secured through bigger and costlier offerings, ending with…
Bible question
…his own face. Correct study ends in obedience, not information. The Bible records readers as well as writers, and shows what careful and careless reading look like. Ezra, who set his heart to it Ezra 7:10 Ezra worked…
Bible question
…treated as failure, and help is given rather than instruction only. The Bible is full of people praying badly, praying briefly, and praying honestly. Watch them before adopting a method. The disciple who asked Luke…
Bible question
…and then says God has come so that his fear may be before them. The Bible distinguishes terror from reverence in a single sentence. Psalms 130:3-4 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But there is…
Bible question
…naming himself as the one who is near, strengthening and holding. The Bible is full of people who were genuinely alone, including its greatest servants and its Lord. Elijah, who thought he was the only one left 1 Kings…
Bible question
…outcome was safe. A Christian can face death honestly and without panic. Paul's calm was not temperament, it was knowledge of where he was going. Every person who has stood at a graveside has asked this question,…
Bible question
…has just called rebellious, corrupt and laden with iniquity in the verses before it. There is no sin named in the chapter that the promise does not cover. David's forgiveness after adultery and murder Psalm 51:1-2 Have…
Bible question
…not weak faith. Luke's Gospel exists partly because someone asked. The Bible is ancient, and we are used to checking sources. Asking whether it can be trusted is the same instinct we apply to news and to history, and…
Bible question
…the alternative theories before they have read the accounts, which reverses the order in which the evidence should be met. Paul, writing to Corinth roughly twenty to twenty-five years after the events a mixed Greek…
Bible question
…test Scripture gives. If someone teaches with confidence and quotes the Bible often, they must be sound Even Satan quotes Scripture in Matthew 4:6, misapplying Psalm 91 to tempt Jesus. Quoting the Bible is not the same…
Bible question
…spends more time on it than we expect. It is worth noticing that the Bible never asks for blind trust. It asks for trust that is informed by history, by covenant, by named acts, and finally by a cross. Christian trust…
Bible question
…in a status he laid aside, not in a nature he lacked. Does the Bible teach the Trinity, or is that a later invention? The word is later; the material is in Scripture. One God is affirmed throughout, and Father, Son and…
Bible question
…robes, harps, sitting on clouds forever. It is worth asking what the Bible actually says, because the real answer is more solid and more physical than the popular one. Grief drives this question harder than curiosity…
Bible question
…seen has not been made out of things which are visible. WEB This is the Bible's own definition. Faith is assurance and proof, words borrowed from the world of evidence, which means biblical faith is confidence resting…
Bible question
…with us according to our sins' describes mercy, while the following verses describing his abundant compassion move toward grace. Where in your life have you experienced God withholding deserved judgment, and where has…
Bible question
…afterwards, Revelation 2:5 and 2 Corinthians 7:9. Both are in the Bible, so neither should be denied. Acts 3:19 promises refreshing, not only pardon. Times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Repentance is…
Bible question
…was baptised on the road. The gospel is not a new subject added to the Bible. It is the explanation of what was already written. Philip preached Jesus from Isaiah 53. Every promise of a sin bearer was pointing at him…
Bible question
…Joel 2:13 and Jonah 4:2, which is one of the clearest examples in the Bible of Scripture interpreting Scripture across many generations. Exodus 34:5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and…
Bible question
…never been shown that can find the New Testament confusing. Every other Bible question about Jesus depends on this one. Why he died, why he rose, what following him means, all of it changes depending on who is doing it.…
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…I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. WEB The Bible itself asks how long God will hide his face. This psalm gives the question a place inside prayer rather than outside it, and then ends in trust…
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