Verses
What Does the Bible Say About Work and Your Job?
Work appears in the Bible before anything goes wrong, and the instructions about it are aimed as often at bosses as at workers. Here is what the main passages actually say.
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Reflections
What the Bible shows when a prayer goes unanswered
Paul asked three times and was told no. Jesus asked in Gethsemane and was not spared. Here is what the biblical texts actually record about unanswered prayer, and what they do not promise.
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12 Bible Verses About Friendship, With the Story Behind Each
Proverbs on loyalty, a covenant between David and Jonathan, three friends who sat with Job in silence for a week. Twelve passages about friendship, each with the situation behind it.
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What Does the Bible Say About Hope When Nothing Improves?
Biblical hope is not optimism about the near future. It is confidence in an outcome you cannot see yet — which is why the strongest passages about it were written by people in ruins.
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Bible Verses About Marriage, and What They Ask of Both Spouses
The passages read at weddings are usually the gentle ones. Here are the marriage texts in full, including the demanding halves, and an honest note on where Christian traditions disagree.
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Bible Study
What Is Faith in the Bible? Hebrews 11, Read Closely
Hebrews 11 gives the Bible's only definition of faith and then illustrates it with people who died without receiving what they were promised. Here is what the chapter actually argues.
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Verses
13 Bible Verses About Peace for a Sleepless Night
Thirteen passages for the hours when the house is quiet and your head is not. Each one explained: who wrote it, what was happening, and what it is actually promising.
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Bible Study
Prayers in the Bible: 11 people who prayed and what they asked
Abraham argued, Hannah wept, Solomon asked for judgement, Stephen forgave his executioners. Eleven prayers recorded in the Bible, with the literal text and what each one was actually asking for.
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Bible Study
Novena, rosary, free prayer, liturgy: how Christians pray
Catholics, Orthodox, mainline Protestants and Pentecostals all pray, and they do it in visibly different ways. Here is what each tradition actually practises, where they overlap, and where they disagree.
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