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Key Bible Verses — Important Scriptures to Read and Understand
Important passages from Genesis to Revelation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version, with where it comes from and what it means in its setting.
For Hopelessness and Depression
11He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12After the earthquake a fire passed; but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice. A gentle whisper
Elijah, exhausted and afraid after Mount Carmel, has asked to die. At Horeb the LORD is not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire but in a gentle whisper,…
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Near to the broken-hearted
The LORD is near those whose hearts are broken. The psalm admits that "many are the afflictions of the righteous" (34:19) and promises God's deliverance in them, not freedom from…
but those who wait for the LORD 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. They shall mount up with wings like eagles
The chapter comforts exiles who think God has forgotten them (40:27). The everlasting Creator does not grow weary, and those who wait for the LORD renew their strength.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Plans to give you hope and a future
From Jeremiah's letter to Judeans already taken to Babylon. God told them to settle there, build houses and seek the city's welfare for seventy years (29:4-10); this promise of a…
22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. 23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. His mercies are new every morning
In a book of grief over Jerusalem's destruction, the writer remembers the LORD's steadfast love and faithfulness. Hope is found in the middle of the lament, not after it.
28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Come to me, all who are weary
Jesus invites the weary and burdened to come to him for rest and to take his easy yoke, contrasting with the heavy burdens religious leaders placed on people.
1Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Run with endurance
Surrounded by the witnesses of chapter 11, believers are to run their race with endurance, looking to Jesus, who endured the cross.