Bible Verse for Today

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

—Ephesians 6:4 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

In Malachi 4:6, God promised that fathers and children in God's coming Kingdom would be reunited in heart. Let's make that real in our homes today by nurturing and correcting our children, using a balance of nurture and correction. Let's not make our faith so full of rules and restrictions that it becomes impossible...

 

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

—Romans 6:3 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

More than an outward symbol, baptism is coming to the core of the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and sharing in it by grace (Romans 6:1-15) based on our faith (Galatians 3:26-29). What an incredible blessing to be able to do what Jesus did at the beginning of his ministry to please God (Luke 3:21-22), and also know that through our...

 

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

—Galatians 6:2 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

"I didn't know Jesus had a law!" He doesn't have a written one like we find in the Old Testament (2 Corinthians 3:2-10). Jesus is Spirit-imprinted on our hearts and transforms our character. We love our neighbor as we love ourselves. We love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. This kind of "law" gives us liberty from a law written on tablets of...

 

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

—Matthew 6:1 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Compassion is not for personal glory, just as it is not a private internal emotion devoid of compassionate action. Christian compassion must always motivate us to act in the best interest and for the greater eternal good of those in need without calling attention to ourselves or our sacrifices. God...

 

And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

—Luke 5:31-32 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Jesus' religious adversaries frequently criticized him for deliberately associating with people who were suspect in their eyes. Jesus, however, had a reason for this behavior. He wasn't associating with sinners to be popular, weird, bizarre, or hip. The LORD associated...

 

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

—Acts 5:30 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Peter is making clear that his faith in Jesus didn't just begin with Jesus. It began with God's promise to the Patriarchs, the great Jewish fathers. The God who blessed them also raised Jesus from the dead! These Jewish opponents threatening the early believers had made sure that Jesus had been executed in the most heinous and degrading way possible for a...

 

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

—Acts 5:29 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Against a stern warning from the ruling council in Jerusalem, called the Sanhedrin, Peter and the other apostles proclaimed Jesus as LORD. This Sanhedrin is basically the same group that presented Jesus to the Romans to have the Savior crucified! However, Peter and the other apostles knew that Jesus had triumphed over the attempts of his...

 

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

—Matthew 5:28 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Living in a sexually supercharged world and facing the prevalence of pornography on the Internet and in today's media, how are you doing with this issue? Jesus challenges us to recognize that sin starts in our hearts and begins when we longingly seek what is not ours to have. While the world may think...

 

And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named ###, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, "Follow me."

—Luke 5:27 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

After capturing the hearts of the crowd, Jesus now calls another disciple, ### — also known as ###. Two things are significant about this calling.

1. Jesus called someone no other religious leader would have chosen, a tax collector and Roman sympathizer — to any Jew of Jesus' era, ### would...

 

And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."

—Luke 5:26 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...​

Jesus forgave a man who was lame and then showed he had the authority to forgive by healing him. As exciting and vital as this healing was, the most important thing was the reaction of those who witnessed it; they praised God out of amazement and awe. They recognized that Jesus had come to minister as God's very...