Bible Verses

Bible verses about praise — why scripture treats it as something done rather than felt, praise offered in hardship, and what it is actually for.

Bible verses about joy — why scripture places it alongside suffering rather than opposite it, and what makes joy possible on a day that offers no reason for it.

Bible verses about contentment, and the detail most people miss — Paul says he learned it. What that means for anyone who does not feel content yet.

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The relapse is real and it is not the end of the account. Both halves of that matter. Writing that skips the first half is dishonest; writing that stops at the first half is the reason people do not come back. The day it happened “Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.” —

Most writing on this subject is about whether divorce is permitted. This page is not. It is for the person already inside one, and the passages below are grouped by stage rather than by argument. When it is still undecided “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with

There is no verse that makes this not a crisis. What the passages below do is address the three separate things that arrive with job loss — the money, the fear about what comes next, and the quieter question about what you were worth in the first place. They are grouped that way because reaching

Bible verses about stewardship — what it means to manage rather than own, covering money, time, talent and the accounting scripture says is coming.

Bible verses about serving others, grouped by what they ask — service without recognition, service that costs something, and why scripture ties serving people to serving God.

Bible verses about gratitude, grouped by what they are actually for — thanksgiving in hardship, gratitude as protection, and the difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks.