# Bible Verses About — full text

World English Bible (WEB), public domain. Official Classic text from eBible.org (eng-web). Updated Nov 11, 2026.

This site is a topical hub of Bible verses for the searches people use most, starting with verses about love, strength, healing, anxiety, and hope. Each topic page opens with a short direct answer, then 12 to 20 passages with exact book, chapter, and verse references.

## About VersesAbout

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VersesAbout is a public-domain Bible verse hub. The editorial team quotes the World English Bible exactly, organizes passages by familiar topics and stories, and keeps a short direct answer at the top of each page so readers and assistants can cite a trustworthy text.

VersesAbout is published by an editorial team. The site quotes the World English Bible exactly from the official eBible.org Classic text (eng-web) and checks each verse against a local verification cache. Quoted wording is not invented from memory.

## Bible Verses About Love

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The Bible presents love as both God’s character and a command for people. John 3:16 says God loved the world and gave his only born Son; 1 Corinthians 13 describes love as patient, kind, and greater than faith and hope; and Jesus tells his followers to love one another in John 13:34–35. Other passages speak of love that covers sins, love for neighbors and enemies, and love from which nothing can separate us. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

### 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

4. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5. doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6. doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

### 1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

### 1 John 4:7–8

7. Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

### 1 John 4:16

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

### 1 John 4:18–19

18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
19. We love him, because he first loved us.

### Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

### Romans 8:38–39

38. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39. nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

### John 13:34–35

34. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
35. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

### John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

### 1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

### Matthew 22:37–39

37. Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
38. This is the first and great commandment.
39. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

### Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

### Colossians 3:14

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

### 1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

### Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

### Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

### Song of Solomon 8:7

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

Related: Marriage (https://bibleversesabout.org/marriage/), Family (https://bibleversesabout.org/family/), Friendship (https://bibleversesabout.org/friendship/), Forgiveness (https://bibleversesabout.org/forgiveness/), Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/)

## Bible Verses About Strength

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Bible verses about strength often point away from self-reliance and toward God as a refuge. Isaiah 40:31 says those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength; Philippians 4:13 says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me; and Isaiah 41:10 promises that God will strengthen and uphold. Other passages speak of strength in weakness, courage, and God as a present help. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Isaiah 40:31

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

### 2 Corinthians 12:9–10

9. He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

### Joshua 1:9

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

### Psalm 46:1

For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

### Psalm 28:7

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

### Psalm 18:1–2

1. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
2. Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

### Exodus 15:2

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

### Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

### Nehemiah 8:10

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

### Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

### Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

### Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

### Psalm 27:1

By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

### Habakkuk 3:19

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

### 1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Related: Courage (https://bibleversesabout.org/courage/), Fear (https://bibleversesabout.org/fear/), Hope (https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/), Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/)

## Bible Verses About Healing

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The Bible speaks of healing as God’s work for bodies, minds, and broken hearts. Psalm 147:3 says God heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds; Psalm 103:2–3 blesses the Lord who heals all your diseases; and Isaiah 53:5 says by his wounds we are healed. James 5:14–15 describes prayer for the sick, and other passages remember God as healer. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

### Psalm 103:2–3

2. Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
3. who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

### Isaiah 53:5

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

### 1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

### Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

### Jeremiah 30:17

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh, “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

### James 5:14–15

14. Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
15. and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

### Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

### Matthew 9:35

Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

### Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

### 3 John 1:2

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

### Psalm 30:2

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

### Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

### Mark 5:34

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

### Jeremiah 33:6

behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

### Psalm 6:2

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

### Isaiah 58:8

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Related: Comfort (https://bibleversesabout.org/comfort/), Hope (https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/), Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/), Prayer (https://bibleversesabout.org/prayer/), Peace (https://bibleversesabout.org/peace/)

## Bible Verses About Anxiety

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/anxiety/

Bible verses about anxiety tell readers not to be anxious, but to pray and to hand worries over to God. Philippians 4:6–7 says, In nothing be anxious, and promises the peace of God; 1 Peter 5:7 says cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you; and Matthew 6:34 teaches not to be anxious for tomorrow. Other passages speak of God’s presence, a guarded heart, and peace in trouble. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Philippians 4:6–7

6. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
7. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

### 1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

### Matthew 6:25–27

25. Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26. See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
27. “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

### Matthew 6:34

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

### John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

### Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

### Psalm 94:19

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### Matthew 11:28–30

28. “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
29. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

### Psalm 34:4

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

### Psalm 56:3

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

### Isaiah 26:3

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

### John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

### Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

### Proverbs 12:25

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

### 2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

### Joshua 1:9

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Related: Peace (https://bibleversesabout.org/peace/), Fear (https://bibleversesabout.org/fear/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/), Hope (https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/), Prayer (https://bibleversesabout.org/prayer/)

## Bible Verses About Hope

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/

The Bible describes hope as a confident waiting, not a vague wish. Romans 15:13 calls God the God of hope and asks that readers overflow with hope; Jeremiah 29:11 speaks of thoughts of peace and a future; and Hebrews 6:19 calls hope an anchor of the soul. Other verses speak of hope in suffering, hope in God’s word, and a living hope through the resurrection. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

### Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

### Hebrews 6:19

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,

### Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

### Romans 5:3–5

3. Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
4. and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
5. and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

### Psalm 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

### Isaiah 40:31

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

### Lamentations 3:21–23

21. This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22. It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
23. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

### 1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

### Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

### Psalm 71:5

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

### Psalm 33:18

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

### Psalm 130:5

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

### Romans 8:24–25

24. For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
25. But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

### Colossians 1:27

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

### Titus 2:13

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

### Proverbs 23:18

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Related: Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/), Strength (https://bibleversesabout.org/strength/), Grief (https://bibleversesabout.org/grief/), Comfort (https://bibleversesabout.org/comfort/)

## Bible Verses About Peace

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/peace/

Bible verses about peace speak of both inner calm and peace with God and other people. John 14:27 records Jesus saying, Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; Philippians 4:7 promises the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding; and Isaiah 26:3 says God will keep in perfect peace the mind that is stayed on him. Other passages bless readers with peace, call peacemakers blessed, and name Jesus as Prince of Peace. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

### Philippians 4:7

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

### Isaiah 26:3

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

### Numbers 6:24–26

24. ‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
25. Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
26. Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’

### Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

### Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

### 2 Thessalonians 3:16

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

### Psalm 29:11

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

### Psalm 4:8

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you alone, Yahweh, make me live in safety.

### Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

### Romans 5:1

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

### Isaiah 9:6

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

### John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

### Psalm 119:165

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

### Ephesians 2:14

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

### James 3:18

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

### Isaiah 32:17

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Related: Anxiety (https://bibleversesabout.org/anxiety/), Fear (https://bibleversesabout.org/fear/), Hope (https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/), Prayer (https://bibleversesabout.org/prayer/)

## Bible Verses About Fear

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/fear/

Bible verses about fear repeatedly say do not be afraid, and they usually give a reason: God is with you. Isaiah 41:10 says Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you; 2 Timothy 1:7 says God didn’t give a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control; and Psalm 23:4 says I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Other passages speak of fear of people versus trust in God, and of perfect love casting out fear. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### 2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

### Joshua 1:9

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

### Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

### Psalm 27:1

By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

### Psalm 34:4

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

### Psalm 56:3–4

3. When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
4. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

### Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

### 1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

### Isaiah 41:13

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

### Psalm 118:6

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

### Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

### Isaiah 43:1

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

### Romans 8:15

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

### Luke 12:32

“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

### Psalm 46:1–2

1. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2. Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

### Matthew 10:31

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Related: Courage (https://bibleversesabout.org/courage/), Anxiety (https://bibleversesabout.org/anxiety/), Peace (https://bibleversesabout.org/peace/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/), Strength (https://bibleversesabout.org/strength/)

## Bible Verses About Forgiveness

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/forgiveness/

The Bible treats forgiveness as both something God gives and something people are told to give one another. 1 John 1:9 says if we confess our sins, God is faithful to forgive; Ephesians 4:32 says to forgive each other as God in Christ forgave you; and Matthew 6:14–15 links forgiving others with being forgiven. Other verses describe sins removed as far as the east is from the west, and seventy-times-seven forgiveness. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### 1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

### Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

### Colossians 3:13

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

### Matthew 6:14–15

14. “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15. But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

### Matthew 18:21–22

21. Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
22. Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

### Psalm 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

### Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

### Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

### Luke 6:37

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

### Luke 23:34

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

### Acts 3:19

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

### Micah 7:18–19

18. Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
19. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

### Mark 11:25

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

### Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

### Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.

### Proverbs 17:9

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

### 2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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## Bible Verses About Faith

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/

The Bible describes faith as trust in God and as assurance of things hoped for. Hebrews 11:1 says faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen; Ephesians 2:8–9 says we are saved by grace through faith, not of works; and Proverbs 3:5–6 says to trust in the Lord with all your heart. Other verses speak of faith that comes by hearing, faith as small as a mustard seed, and walking by faith. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

### Hebrews 11:6

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

### 2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

### Romans 10:17

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

### Matthew 17:20

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

### Mark 11:22–24

22. Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
23. For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, he shall have whatever he says.
24. Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

### James 2:17

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

### Ephesians 2:8–9

8. for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9. not of works, that no one would boast.

### Proverbs 3:5–6

5. Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
6. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

### Romans 1:17

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

### Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

### 1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

### James 1:6

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

### Romans 5:1

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

### Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

### Luke 17:5–6

5. The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6. The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

### 1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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## Bible Verses About Grief

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/grief/

Bible verses about grief do not deny sorrow; they name it and then offer comfort and hope. Psalm 34:18 says the Lord is near to those who have a broken heart; Matthew 5:4 says Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted; and Revelation 21:4 promises that God will wipe away every tear, and death will be no more. Other passages speak of weeping with those who weep, of grief with hope, and of God binding up wounds. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Psalm 34:18

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

### Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

### Revelation 21:4

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”

### 2 Corinthians 1:3–4

3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4. who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

### Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

### John 14:1

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

### Romans 8:18

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

### 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14

13. But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

### Psalm 30:5

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

### Ecclesiastes 3:1–4

1. For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
2. a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3. a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4. a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

### John 11:35

Jesus wept.

### Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

### Lamentations 3:31–33

31. For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32. For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33. For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

### Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

### Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

### Isaiah 53:3–4

3. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
4. Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

### Psalm 46:1

For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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## Bible Verses About Marriage

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/marriage/

Bible verses about marriage describe it as a covenant in which two become one, marked by love, honor, and faithfulness. Genesis 2:24 says a man will leave his father and mother and join to his wife, and they will be one flesh; Jesus repeats that teaching in Matthew 19:4–6 and adds, What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart. Ephesians 5:25 tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, and 1 Corinthians 13 describes the character of love. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

### Matthew 19:4–6

4. He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5. and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
6. So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

### Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

### Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

### Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

### 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

4. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5. doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6. doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

### Colossians 3:14

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

### Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

9. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
11. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
12. If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

### Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

### Proverbs 31:10–11

10. Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies.
11. The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

### 1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

### Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

### Song of Solomon 8:7

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

### 1 Peter 3:7

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

### Ruth 1:16–17

16. Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
17. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

### Malachi 2:14–16

14. Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
15. Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16. One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.

### Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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## Bible Verses About Patience

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/patience/

The Bible treats patience as both waiting on God and being slow to anger with other people. James 1:2–4 says the testing of faith produces endurance, so that you may be perfect and complete; Galatians 5:22–23 lists patience among the fruit of the Spirit; and 1 Corinthians 13:4 begins its description of love with Love is patient. Other verses say to wait for the Lord, to be slow to anger, and to run with endurance. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### James 1:2–4

2. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

### Galatians 5:22–23

22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
23. gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

### 1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

### Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

### James 5:7–8

7. Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

### Psalm 27:14

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

### Psalm 37:7

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

### Isaiah 40:31

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

### Colossians 3:12

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

### Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

### Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

### Proverbs 16:32

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

### Romans 8:25

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

### Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

### 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

### Lamentations 3:25–26

25. Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

### Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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## Bible Verses About Gratitude

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/gratitude/

Bible verses about gratitude treat thanksgiving as a regular practice, not only a response to easy days. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you; Psalm 100:4 says to enter God’s gates with thanksgiving; and Philippians 4:6 ties prayer to thanksgiving. Other passages call every good gift from above, and say to give thanks always. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### 1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

### Psalm 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

### Psalm 107:1

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

### Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

### Colossians 3:15–17

15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
17. Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

### Psalm 118:24

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

### James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.

### Psalm 9:1

For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

### Ephesians 5:20

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

### Psalm 136:1

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

### Colossians 2:6–7

6. As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
7. rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

### Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

### Psalm 95:2–3

2. Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3. For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

### 1 Chronicles 16:34

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

### Psalm 28:7

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

### Psalm 103:1–2

1. By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
2. Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,

### 2 Corinthians 9:15

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

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## Bible Verses About Prayer

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/prayer/

The Bible teaches prayer as asking, thanking, confessing, and keeping company with God. Matthew 6:9–13 records the Lord’s Prayer; Philippians 4:6 says to let requests be made known to God, with thanksgiving; and 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 says to pray without ceasing. Other verses promise that God hears, invite people to ask and seek, and describe prayer for one another. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Matthew 6:9–13

9. Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11. Give us today our daily bread.
12. Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

### Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

### 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18

16. Always rejoice.
17. Pray without ceasing.
18. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

### Matthew 6:6

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

### Matthew 7:7–8

7. “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
8. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

### Jeremiah 29:12

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

### 1 John 5:14–15

14. This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
15. And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

### James 5:16

Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

### Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

### Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

### Luke 18:1

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

### Psalm 145:18

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

### Hebrews 4:16

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

### Colossians 4:2

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

### John 15:7

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

### Matthew 21:22

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

### 1 Timothy 2:1–2

1. I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men,
2. for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

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## Bible Verses About Comfort

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/comfort/

Bible verses about comfort present God as close in trouble and as the source of consolation that people can then pass on. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 blesses the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction; Psalm 23:4 says your rod and your staff, they comfort me; and Matthew 11:28 records Jesus saying, Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### 2 Corinthians 1:3–4

3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4. who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

### Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

### Matthew 11:28–30

28. “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
29. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

### Psalm 34:18

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

### Revelation 21:4

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”

### Psalm 119:50

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

### Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

### Psalm 46:1

For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

### Isaiah 66:13

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

### Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

### 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17

16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
17. comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

### John 14:1

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

### Nahum 1:7

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

### Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

### Psalm 94:19

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

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## Bible Verses About Courage

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/courage/

Bible verses about courage usually pair the command be strong and courageous with a promise that God is present. Joshua 1:9 says Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go; Deuteronomy 31:6 says the same to Israel; and 2 Timothy 1:7 says God didn’t give a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. Other verses speak of waiting on the Lord for courage, and of taking heart in trouble. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Joshua 1:9

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

### Joshua 1:6–7

6. “Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
7. Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

### Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

### 2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

### Psalm 27:1

By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

### Psalm 31:24

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

### 1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

### John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

### Psalm 56:3–4

3. When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
4. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

### Isaiah 41:13

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

### 1 Chronicles 28:20

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed, for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

### Daniel 10:19

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

### Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

### Psalm 27:14

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

### 2 Chronicles 32:7

“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.

Related: Strength (https://bibleversesabout.org/strength/), Fear (https://bibleversesabout.org/fear/), Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/), Trust (https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/), Hope (https://bibleversesabout.org/hope/)

## Bible Verses About Family

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/family/

Bible verses about family speak of honoring parents, training children, and a household that serves the Lord. Exodus 20:12 says Honor your father and your mother; Proverbs 22:6 says to train up a child in the way he should go; and Joshua 24:15 says as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh. Other passages speak of children as a heritage, of fathers not provoking their children, and of love that binds a family together. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

### Joshua 24:15

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

### Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

### Ephesians 6:1–4

1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
3. “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
4. You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

### Colossians 3:20–21

20. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
21. Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

### Psalm 127:3–5

3. Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
4. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
5. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

### Deuteronomy 6:6–7

6. These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
7. and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

### 1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

### Proverbs 1:8–9

8. My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;
9. for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

### Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

### Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.

### Psalm 133:1

A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

### 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

4. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5. doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6. doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

### Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

### Isaiah 54:13

All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.

### Psalm 103:17

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

### 1 Timothy 3:4–5

4. one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
5. (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

Related: Marriage (https://bibleversesabout.org/marriage/), Love (https://bibleversesabout.org/love/), Friendship (https://bibleversesabout.org/friendship/), Wisdom (https://bibleversesabout.org/wisdom/), Forgiveness (https://bibleversesabout.org/forgiveness/)

## Bible Verses About Friendship

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/friendship/

Bible verses about friendship praise loyalty, honest counsel, and love that holds through trouble. Proverbs 17:17 says A friend loves at all times; Proverbs 18:24 speaks of a friend who sticks closer than a brother; and John 15:13 says Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Other verses compare friendship to iron sharpening iron, and describe two being better than one. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

### Proverbs 18:24

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

### Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

### Proverbs 27:9

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

### John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

### John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

### Ecclesiastes 4:9–10

9. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

### 1 Samuel 18:1–3

1. When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2. Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.
3. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

### Proverbs 27:6

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

### Proverbs 22:24–25

24. Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,
25. lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul.

### Romans 12:10

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

### 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

### Proverbs 13:20

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

### Ruth 1:16–17

16. Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
17. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

### James 2:23

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

### Hebrews 10:24–25

24. Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
25. not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

### Job 6:14

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Related: Love (https://bibleversesabout.org/love/), Family (https://bibleversesabout.org/family/), Forgiveness (https://bibleversesabout.org/forgiveness/), Wisdom (https://bibleversesabout.org/wisdom/), Faith (https://bibleversesabout.org/faith/)

## Bible Verses About Wisdom

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/wisdom/

The Bible treats wisdom as a gift from God that begins with reverence for him, not merely as cleverness. Proverbs 9:10 says The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; James 1:5 says if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally; and Proverbs 3:5–6 says not to lean on your own understanding, but to trust in the Lord. Other verses contrast earthly cleverness with wisdom from above, and call wisdom more precious than silver. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Proverbs 9:10

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

### Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

### Proverbs 2:6

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

### Proverbs 3:5–6

5. Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
6. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

### Proverbs 3:13–14

13. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
14. For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

### Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

### James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

### James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

### Psalm 111:10

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

### Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

### Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

### Job 28:28

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

### Proverbs 15:33

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

### Daniel 2:21

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

### Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

### Colossians 2:2–3

2. that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
3. in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

### Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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## Bible Verses About Trust

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/trust/

Bible verses about trust call people to rely on God rather than on themselves or on uncertain things. Proverbs 3:5–6 says Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding; Psalm 56:3 says When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you; and Isaiah 26:3–4 links a steadfast mind and perfect peace with lasting trust in the Lord. Other passages say those who trust the Lord are blessed, and compare God to a rock and a refuge. The verses below are quoted from the World English Bible (WEB), a public-domain translation.

### Proverbs 3:5–6

5. Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
6. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

### Psalm 56:3–4

3. When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
4. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

### Isaiah 26:3–4

3. You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
4. Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

### Psalm 9:10

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

### Jeremiah 17:7–8

7. “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
8. For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

### Psalm 37:5

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

### Psalm 28:7

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

### Nahum 1:7

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

### Psalm 91:2

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

### Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

### Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

### Psalm 112:7

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

### John 14:1

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

### Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

### Psalm 20:7

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.

### 2 Samuel 22:31

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

### Psalm 125:1

A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

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## Bible Stories About Temptation

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/

The Bible tells many stories about temptation: the pull to take something now, hide a wrong, or take a shortcut when it would cost someone else. In Genesis, the serpent asks Eve whether God has really said what she thinks, and Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of stew. Joseph refuses Potiphar's wife and is thrown in prison. Achan hides stolen plunder in his tent. David uses his power to take Bathsheba and then to cover it. Samson ignores repeated warnings until his strength is gone. Jesus is tempted in the wilderness and does not give in. Peter denies knowing Jesus out of fear, then weeps. These pages retell those stories in plain English, quote the World English Bible, and connect each one to a familiar modern pressure, from impulse spending and workplace affairs to misinformation, hidden fraud, and the hunger for a shortcut.

### Eve and the Serpent

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/eve-and-the-serpent/

In Genesis 3, a serpent asks Eve whether God has really forbidden the fruit, she and Adam eat it, and they are sent out of the garden. The story is often read as the first temptation in the Bible, and it still resembles the modern habit of asking "Is that really true?" when a slightly twisted claim makes a clear boundary easier to ignore.

In the beginning of the human story, God placed the first man and woman in a garden. He gave them every tree for food, with one boundary: they were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. "In the day that you eat of it," God said, "you will surely die."

A serpent, described as more subtle than any animal of the field, came to the woman with a question that slightly changed the command. "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?" God had not forbidden every tree -- only one. The woman answered that they could eat from the trees of the garden, but not from the tree in the middle. She added a detail the original command had not named: they were not to touch it, or they would die.

The serpent contradicted God outright. "You won't really die," it said. Instead, it claimed, her eyes would be opened, and she would be like God, knowing good and evil. The woman looked at the tree again. It was good for food. It was a delight to the eyes. It was desirable for the wisdom it seemed to offer. She took some of the fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it too.

Their eyes were opened, but not in the way the serpent had advertised. They knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together for coverings and hid among the trees when they heard God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. God called to the man, "Where are you?" The man said he was afraid because he was naked. When God asked whether he had eaten from the forbidden tree, the man pointed to the woman. The woman pointed to the serpent: "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

God sent them out of the garden. At the east, cherubim and a flaming sword guarded the way to the tree of life. The first temptation in the Bible begins not with a shout, but with a question that makes a clear word sound uncertain.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

#### Genesis 3:4–5

4. The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
5. for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

#### Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Today:

The serpent's first move is still a familiar one: "Has God really said...?" -- or, in ordinary life, "Is that really true?" A rumor, a headline, a private message, or a slightly twisted version of a rule can make a boundary look harsh or a source look untrustworthy.

The pattern in Genesis 3 is not only about fruit. It is about a claim that is almost right, a cost that is waved away ("You won't really die"), and a promise of insider knowledge. Online, that can look like misinformation that spreads because it is easier to believe than to check, or like a voice that asks us to doubt a commitment we already understood.

The story does not pretend the woman and the man were helpless. They looked, they wanted, and they reached. Checking what was actually said -- and what it would cost to ignore it -- is the work the garden conversation skipped.

### Esau and the Birthright

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/esau-and-the-birthright/

In Genesis 25, Esau comes in hungry from the field and sells his firstborn birthright to Jacob for bread and lentil stew. The story is a plain picture of instant gratification: a real appetite in the moment, and a lasting inheritance treated as if it were worth almost nothing -- the same trade a sports-betting app or a one-click purchase can ask for today.

Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons. Esau, the firstborn, became a skillful hunter. Jacob stayed among the tents. In that culture, the birthright of the first son was not a small thing. It carried a larger share of the inheritance and a special place in the family line. Esau held that right by being born first.

One day Esau came in from the field exhausted and hungry. Jacob had been boiling stew. "Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished," Esau said. The stew was so associated with him that he was also called Edom, "red."

Jacob saw an opening. "First, sell me your birthright." It was a hard bargain to put in front of a hungry brother. Esau answered as if the future were already worthless. "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" He was not actually at the point of death in the story; he was tired and wanted a meal. Jacob made him swear. Esau swore, and he sold his birthright.

Then Jacob gave him bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank, got up, and went on his way. Genesis adds a sober last line: "So Esau despised his birthright." He treated as cheap something that was meant to last longer than a single afternoon.

The New Testament later looks back on this moment and warns readers not to be like Esau, "who sold his birthright for one meal," and who afterward could not undo what he had done, though he sought the blessing with tears. The stew was real; the hunger was real. What the story emphasizes is the trade: a lasting portion, given up in a moment when the present felt like everything.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Genesis 25:32

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

#### Genesis 25:33–34

33. Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
34. Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

Today:

Esau's sentence -- "I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" -- is the voice of instant gratification. It shows up when a sports-betting app makes a wager feel like the only thing that matters in the next thirty seconds, or when a buy-now-pay-later button, a flash sale, or a late-night checkout cashes out next month's rent for a feeling that will be gone by morning.

The hunger is often real enough: boredom, stress, the sense that you have earned a break. The danger in the story is not stew. It is deciding, while the craving is loud, that the future is worth almost nothing. Esau walked away full, and only later discovered what the meal had cost. A pause -- even a night's sleep -- is often the difference between a lunch and a birthright.

### Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/joseph-and-potiphars-wife/

In Genesis 39, Potiphar's wife repeatedly asks Joseph, a trusted servant in her house, to lie with her. He refuses, runs when she catches his garment, and is then falsely accused and sent to prison. The story is a clear picture of workplace temptation and an unwanted affair: pressure from someone with power, a house that is suddenly empty, and a costly no.

Joseph had already survived betrayal by his brothers and a long journey down to Egypt as a slave. There, Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him. The text says Yahweh was with Joseph. He did his work well, and Potiphar trusted him with more and more, until Joseph was overseer of the whole household. Potiphar did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. The house was blessed for Joseph's sake.

Joseph was well-built and handsome. After a time, Potiphar's wife set her eyes on him and said, "Lie with me." Joseph refused. He named two loyalties at once. His master had put everything in his hands except her, because she was his wife. And the act would not only be a betrayal of that trust: "How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

She did not ask only once. Day after day she spoke to him. Joseph would not listen to her, would not lie with her, and would not even be with her. Then came a day when he went into the house to do his work and none of the other men were inside. She caught him by his garment and said again, "Lie with me!" He left the garment in her hand and ran outside.

She used the garment to tell a different story. She called the men of the house and accused Joseph of trying to lie with her. She repeated the accusation to Potiphar when he came home. His wrath was kindled. He put Joseph in the prison where the king's prisoners were kept.

The story does not end with the false charge as the last word about Joseph. Yahweh was with him in the prison as well, and gave him favor with the keeper, who soon put the other prisoners in Joseph's care. Doing what was right cost him his position and his reputation for a time. It did not cost him God's presence.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Genesis 39:8–9

8. But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
9. No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

#### Genesis 39:12

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Today:

This is a story about workplace temptation, and about an affair that one person wanted and the other refused. The pressure was not a single weak moment. It was repeated, and it came from someone with power in the house where Joseph had to work. When the house was empty, he ran.

Saying no did not make him a hero in Potiphar's eyes. It made him a target of a lie, and it cost him his job. People still face versions of this: a colleague, a boss, a client, or a work trip where secrecy would be easy. Joseph's reasons still hold up in ordinary life -- someone has trusted you, and the choice is not only private.

The story is honest about the price of refusal. It is also honest that a clear no, and a way out of the room, can be the faithful thing even when the aftermath is unfair.

### Achan and the Hidden Plunder

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/achan/

In Joshua 7, Achan takes devoted plunder from Jericho -- a robe, silver, and gold -- and buries it in his tent. Israel then loses a battle at Ai, the hidden things are found, and Achan confesses. The story is about coveting, taking, and hiding, and it still reads like fraud that is buried in the hope that no one will look.

When Jericho fell, Joshua had given a clear command from God. The city was devoted to destruction. The silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron were holy to Yahweh and were to go into his treasury. No one was to take the devoted things for themselves, or they would make the whole camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.

Achan, son of Carmi, of the tribe of Judah, took some of those things anyway. The text says the children of Israel committed a trespass, and Yahweh's anger burned against them. Joshua, unaware, sent a modest force against the next town, Ai, which looked easy. About three thousand men went up and fled. Thirty-six were killed. The people's hearts melted like water.

Joshua tore his clothes and fell on his face before the ark. He asked why God had brought them across the Jordan only to fall before their enemies. God told him to get up. Israel had sinned. They had taken devoted things, stolen, and deceived, and had put the goods among their own stuff. They would not be able to stand before their enemies until the devoted thing was removed.

In the morning the people came near tribe by tribe, then family by family, then man by man. Achan was selected. Joshua said, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

Achan confessed. "I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel." He had seen a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold. "I coveted them and took them," he said. They were hidden in the ground in the middle of his tent, with the silver under them. Messengers ran and found it exactly as he said.

Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the stolen things, and all that he had to the valley of Achor. He was stoned, and they raised a great heap of stones over him. The place was named Achor, "trouble." Then, the text says, Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

#### Joshua 7:20–21

20. Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.
21. When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Today:

Achan's story is about hidden theft and fraud. He saw something valuable that was not his, wanted it, took it, and buried it in the place he lived -- a secret under the floor of an ordinary tent. Modern versions are less about a robe and a wedge of gold, and more about an expense report, a borrowed company card, money taken from a shared account, or records quietly adjusted in the hope that no one will look.

In the story, the hidden thing does not stay private. A whole community stumbled in a fight they expected to win, and people were hurt, before anyone knew Achan's name. Confession finally came, but only after he was found out. The valley named "trouble" is a hard ending. The warning is plain: what is buried in the tent is still in the camp.

### David and Bathsheba

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/david-and-bathsheba/

In 2 Samuel 11-12, King David sees Bathsheba bathing, sends for her though she is married to Uriah, and then arranges Uriah's death to hide the pregnancy. The prophet Nathan confronts him, and David confesses. The story begins with a private look and becomes an abuse of power -- a pattern that still has a face in phone and online lust, and in using position to take and to cover.

It was the time of year when kings went out to war. David sent Joab and the army to fight the Ammonites, but he stayed in Jerusalem. One evening he rose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful.

He sent and asked who she was. The answer should have stopped him: "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite's wife?" David sent messengers and took her. She came to him, he lay with her, and she went home. Later she sent word that she was pregnant.

David tried to cover it. He called Uriah back from the battle and urged him to go down to his own house. Uriah would not. The ark and the army were in the field, he said; he would not go home to eat and drink and lie with his wife. David kept him another day and made him drunk. Still Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with the servants and did not go home.

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah's own hand. It said to place Uriah at the front of the hardest fighting and then withdraw, so that he would be struck and die. Uriah died. After Bathsheba's time of mourning, David brought her to his house and she became his wife and bore him a son. "But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh."

God sent the prophet Nathan, who told David a story about a rich man who took a poor man's only lamb. David burned with anger and said the man deserved to die. Nathan said, "You are the man!" He named the taking of Uriah's wife and Uriah's death. David answered, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said the Lord had put away his sin and he would not die, but the child would die, and the sword would not depart from David's house. David confesses, and what follows is both mercy and a lasting cost.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### 2 Samuel 11:2

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

#### 2 Samuel 12:7

Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

#### 2 Samuel 12:13

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

Today:

David's first step was a look from a private rooftop. Today that rooftop is often a phone -- an image, a profile, a video that can be opened in secret and then pursued. The story does not stop at desire. David used royal power to inquire, to send for Bathsheba, and then to use the army to erase her husband. That is abuse of power, not only a private moral lapse.

Nathan's parable still works because it is easy to be outraged at someone else's theft and slow to recognize our own. David's confession is real, and so are the wounds that followed. The modern warning is double: notice the look before it becomes a plan, and notice when power -- at work, in a family, or in a relationship -- is being used to take what is not yours and to hide it.

### Samson and Delilah

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/samson-and-delilah/

In Judges 16, Samson loves Delilah, who is paid to find the secret of his strength. He evades her three times, then tells her everything; his hair is shaved, and he does not know that the Lord has left him. The story is often read as a warning about a dangerous relationship. It is also a picture of addiction: repeated warnings, the belief that you can still walk away as at other times, and a strength that is already gone.

Before Samson was born, an angel told his mother that her son would be a Nazirite to God from the womb. No razor was to come on his head. He would begin to save Israel from the Philistines. His strength was a gift tied to that calling, not a trick he owned by himself.

As a grown man, Samson loved a woman in the valley of Sorek named Delilah. The lords of the Philistines came to her with a price: eleven hundred pieces of silver from each of them if she would find out the secret of his strength so they could bind and afflict him. Delilah asked Samson how he might be bound.

Three times he lied to her -- green cords, new ropes, weaving the seven locks of his hair into a loom. Each time she bound him and cried, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" Each time men were waiting in the inner room, and each time he snapped the bonds and escaped. He could see the pattern. She was not asking out of idle curiosity.

She pressed him anyway. "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me?" Day after day she urged him, until he was worn down -- "his soul was troubled to death." At last he told her everything: he had been a Nazirite from his mother's womb; if he were shaved, his strength would leave him and he would be like any other man.

Delilah sent for the Philistine lords and their money. She made him sleep on her knees, and a man shaved off the seven locks of his head. She cried out again. Samson woke and thought, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he did not know that Yahweh had departed from him.

The Philistines seized him, put out his eyes, and set him to grinding in a prison in Gaza. In time, his hair began to grow. At a feast for the god Dagon they brought him out to entertain the crowd. Samson prayed that God would remember him once more, took hold of the two middle pillars of the house, and pulled it down. He died there with the Philistines.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Judges 16:16–17

16. When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
17. He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

#### Judges 16:20

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Today:

Samson's story is often read as a warning about a dangerous relationship, and it is that. It is also a picture of a cycle that looks a lot like addiction. He is warned, clearly and more than once. He plays with the edge -- almost telling, then escaping -- and tells himself he can walk out as at other times.

The most haunting line is that he did not know the strength had already left. That is what repeated compromise can feel like: the habit, the app, the drink, the secret meeting, still seems manageable until it is not. Affectionate language can be part of the pressure, as it was with Delilah.

The end of Samson's life is mixed: he prays, God answers, and the house falls, but the cost is terrible. The hope in the story is not that the cycle is harmless. It is that a person who has already lost a great deal can still call on God.

### Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/jesus-in-the-wilderness/

In Matthew 4 and Luke 4, Jesus fasts forty days in the wilderness and is tempted by the devil: to turn stones into bread, to throw himself from the temple, and to receive the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship. He answers each time from Scripture and does not give in. The three tests still resemble appetite, a public stunt aimed at fame, and a shortcut to success.

After Jesus was baptized, the Spirit led him into the wilderness to be tempted. Matthew says he fasted forty days and forty nights and was hungry afterward. Luke says he ate nothing in those days and, when they were completed, he was hungry. The devil came to him there.

The first temptation met him at the point of appetite. "If you are the Son of God," the tempter said, "command that these stones become bread." Jesus was the Son of God, and he was truly hungry. He answered with Scripture: "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God's mouth.'"

Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down," he said, and quoted a psalm about angels bearing him up. It was a dare to make a spectacle of God's protection -- to prove himself in public by forcing a rescue. Jesus answered, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"

A third time, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me." Luke records the same offer as a promise of authority delivered in a moment. The shortcut was clear: the kingdoms without worship of God, and without the road that still lay ahead of Jesus. He said, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"

Then the devil left him. Luke adds that he departed "until another time." Angels came and served him. The letter to the Hebrews later says that Jesus can sympathize with human weakness because he was tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Matthew and Luke tell the same three temptations in a slightly different order. This page follows Matthew; Luke places the offer of the kingdoms before the pinnacle of the temple.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Matthew 4:3–4

3. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4. But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”

#### Matthew 4:8–10

8. Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
9. He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
10. Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

Today:

Each of the three tests has a modern face. The first is appetite -- not only food, but the urge to use whatever power you have to soothe hunger right now, without patience. The second is the pull of a public stunt: prove who you are, gather a crowd, go viral, make God -- or luck, or the algorithm -- catch you. Social media fame often asks for that kind of throw-yourself-down moment.

The third is a shortcut to success -- influence, a platform, a kingdom -- offered at the price of bending the knee to something other than God. The hook in the wilderness is the word "if": if you are who you say you are, why wait? Jesus does not argue from ego. He answers with what is written, and he refuses to take a path that would skip obedience.

The story is good news when you are hungry or tired, or when you want to get ahead: being tempted is not proof that faith is fake, and there is a way through it that does not require a spectacle.

### Peter's Denial

Source: https://bibleversesabout.org/stories/temptation/peters-denial/

On the night Jesus is arrested, Peter promises he will never deny him, then three times tells people in the high priest's courtyard that he does not know the man. A rooster crows, Jesus looks at him, and Peter weeps. The temptation here is social fear: the pressure to hide a loyalty when the people around the fire might turn on you -- something that still happens in ordinary rooms, chats, and workplaces.

On the night Jesus was arrested, he told his disciples that all of them would stumble because of him. Peter was sure he was the exception. "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble." Jesus answered that before the rooster crowed that night, Peter would deny him three times. Peter insisted, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." The other disciples said the same.

When the crowd seized Jesus, Peter did follow -- but from a distance -- into the courtyard of the high priest's house. He sat with the servants by a fire. A maid came up: "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!" Peter denied it before all of them. "I don't know what you are talking about."

He went out to the porch. Someone else saw him and said to the people there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." Peter denied it again, this time with an oath: "I don't know the man."

A little later the bystanders pressed him. They were sure he was one of them; his accent gave him away as a Galilean. Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed. Peter remembered Jesus's words. Luke adds a detail the other accounts do not: the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Peter went out and wept bitterly.

The Gospels do not leave him in that courtyard. After Jesus is raised, he meets Peter again. In John's Gospel he asks Peter three times whether he loves him, and entrusts him with feeding his sheep. The denial is real. So is the restoration.

Key verses (World English Bible):

#### Matthew 26:34–35

34. Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
35. Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.

#### Matthew 26:74–75

74. Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.
75. Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.

#### Luke 22:61–62

61. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
62. He went out, and wept bitterly.

Today:

Peter's temptation is social fear. He is not hungry for gold or a throne. He is standing by a fire with people who could get him into trouble if they decide he belongs to Jesus, and he wants to disappear. That pressure is still ordinary: a lunch table, a group chat, a classroom, or a family argument where staying quiet -- or pretending you don't know the man -- feels safer than being counted.

Notice how the denials deepen. First he evades. Then he swears. Then he curses. Overconfidence earlier in the night ("I will never") did not protect him when the moment came. The hopeful part of the story is the look, the tears, and the later conversation on the shore. Failure in a hard moment is not the same thing as being finished.