What do you need today?
Choose one, and you will get a single passage with its reference, its translation, a note on where it sits in its book, and a link to read it in context.
What are you looking for?
- ComfortPassages often turned to for consolation, gathered with their setting kept in view.
- CouragePassages about facing something difficult, with a note on who each was first spoken to.
- DirectionPassages people turn to when facing a decision, presented without claiming to answer it.
- EncouragementShort passages of encouragement, with their original setting noted.
- ForgivenessPassages about being forgiven and about forgiving others, kept distinct from one another.
- HopePassages about hope, including several written from situations that had not yet improved.
- PatiencePassages about waiting well, and about patience with other people.
- PeacePassages about inward peace and about peace between people.
- ProtectionPassages using the imagery of shelter and refuge, with a note on how they have been read.
- RestPassages about rest, tiredness and stopping.
- StrengthPassages about strength, several of which are explicitly about weakness.
- WisdomPassages from the wisdom books and the New Testament letters about how to live well.
- AnxiousPassages people turn to when anxious, with their setting shown and support signposted.
- AfraidPassages about fear, mostly spoken to people facing something concrete.
- TiredPassages about weariness and about being carried.
- GriefPassages for bereavement, chosen to accompany grief rather than shorten it.
- Difficult decisionsPassages about deciding well, which do not attempt to decide for you.
- Difficult timesA general selection for hard periods, linking through to more specific pages.
- GratitudePassages of thanks, including several written in difficult circumstances.
Or how are you arriving?
These pages carry support information alongside the passages where it is relevant.
- ComfortPassages often turned to for consolation, gathered with their setting kept in view.
- EncouragementShort passages of encouragement, with their original setting noted.
- HopePassages about hope, including several written from situations that had not yet improved.
- PeacePassages about inward peace and about peace between people.
- RestPassages about rest, tiredness and stopping.
- AnxiousPassages people turn to when anxious, with their setting shown and support signposted.
- AfraidPassages about fear, mostly spoken to people facing something concrete.
- AngryPassages about anger, including several that treat it as legitimate.
- ConfusedPassages about not knowing, and about the limits of understanding.
- DiscouragedPassages for low points, including several written from them.
- GratefulPassages of thanks and praise.
- HopefulPassages that name hope as something being waited for.
- JoyfulPassages about joy, celebration and gladness.
- LonelyPassages about isolation and about being accompanied.
- OverwhelmedPassages for when there is too much, including some about delegating and stopping.
- PeacefulShort passages suited to unhurried reading.
- SadPassages that make room for sorrow rather than hurrying it.
- TiredPassages about weariness and about being carried.
- UncertainPassages about not knowing what comes next.
- GratitudePassages of thanks, including several written in difficult circumstances.
If today is difficult
This site can offer you a passage to read. It cannot offer you care, and it does not pretend to. If something is heavy, or has been heavy for a while, talking to a doctor, a helpline or someone you trust is worth more than anything here — and it takes nothing away from your faith to do so.