About Verse a Prayer

What this site is

Verse a Prayer exists to answer one specific question: which verse speaks to what I am going through?

Instead of expecting you to know the chapter already, the site starts from the topic — anxiety, grief, gratitude, fear, starting over, family — and gathers on each page the verses that address it, with the full text, the reference and a short explanation of each. The verse pages go further: what the passage means, the setting it was written in, and which other passages speak to the same thing.

The other half of the site is the prayers, written by us for the moments when words are hard to find: the morning, the night, illness, waiting, loss.

This is the site in our group with the most original writing. If you want to understand a verse, start here.

Who writes here

Grace Whitfield — devotional writer, BA in Theology. Writes the verse explanations, the topic introductions and the prayers.

Daniel Mercer — theological reviewer, ThM in Biblical Studies. Reviews every text before it is published.

Tools

The verse image generator turns any verse into an image ready to share, and the Bible quiz tests what you remember. Both free, no sign-up.

Our sister sites

This site belongs to a small editorial group with the same newsroom and the same standards, split by purpose instead of repeating the same content at different addresses:

• Verse a Bible — the complete Bible to read, book by book, with an introduction to every book and a reading plan.
• Verse a Prayer — verses organized by topic and occasion, with a short explanation of each, plus original prayers.

In Portuguese, the same standards at Versículos e Orações, Bíblia Luz and Versículo Hoje.

How we work

We never rewrite Scripture: we quote the translation as it is and we say which one, in translations and licenses. We only use openly licensed translations — never NIV, ESV or NLT, which are copyrighted works.

What is ours — introductions, explanations, prayers and reflections — is written by people, named on the page, and reviewed by a second person before publishing. We stay with what the Christian traditions hold in common: we are not tied to any denomination and we do not write as if you belonged to one.

Everything is free and requires no sign-up. See also our editorial policy and our methodology.

Devotional content. It does not replace medical, psychological or legal advice.