Reflections on Bible Verses
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Several years ago, I joined a group where each week we are given a bible verse to reflect on during the week, and we then share our personal response to the verse when we next meet, before a time of prayer. I value those evenings because each of our responses are personal, so they are entirely different, and I am given new perspectives outside of my experience.
In the hope that my personal reflections on those verses may be of value in a similar way to you, I have presented them here.
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Contributions welcome ...
My aim in setting up this page was to share personal reflections on bible verses as a help to people as they set out on their journey of faith, and explore bible readings.
Your comments, challenging (but sincere) questions, and suggestions for other verses, are all welcome.
Also welcome are your personal reflections on these verses where they support this aim — brief reflections can be listed in the comments on a verse, while more lengthy reflections will be shown on a separate page (use the contact form at this stage, listing the relevant verse and date, your screen name and email address, and attach any relevant files).
Due to the problems of spam and viral attacks on websites, I will review comments and contributions before they appear on the site.
Guidance for contributions:
- Keep it personal (not copied from other sources)
- A heartfelt response to the verse (not promoting particular doctrines or ideology)
- Guided by the Holy Spirit (not promoting philosophies built on human logic, they tend to discourage or mislead).
As with the small group I attend, we are blessed by a variety of perspectives.
See also
Monday fortnight: 16-03-2026 – Luke 5:27-32 – I have not come to call the righteous
Next Monday is a public holiday, so the Monday group will next meet on the following Monday 16th March. Luke 5:27-32: “27 After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting...
Next Friday, 13-03-2026: Genesis 6:5-6 – There is no one righteous
Note: I am now involved in a second group which meets on Friday, and uses a similar format to the Monday group, so I am putting the reflections for both groups in the same area. The readings for...
2 Peter 1:20-21 – All scripture is God-breathed
2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV), "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will,...
John 14:6 – No one comes to the Father except through Me
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Questions: The first statement mentions three aspects of Jesus. What do these...
Romans 1:19-20 – God’s invisible qualities seen in creation
Romans 1:19-20 (NIV), “19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal...
John 1:11-13 – To all who did receive Him
John 1:11-13 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who...
John 1:9-10 – The True Light
John 1:9-10 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. Question: Consider...
Philippians 3:13-14 – Reaching forward to those things which are ahead
Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press...
Ecclesiastes 3:11 – Everything beautiful in its time
Ecclesiastes 3:11"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." Question:...
Acts 16:6-10 – The Spirit did not permit them
Acts 16:6-10“6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go...
2 Cor 5:1 – A house not made with hands
2 Corinthians 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” The further verses give...
Matthew 11:4-6 – The poor have the gospel preached to them
Matthew 11:4-6, ‘Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised...
Isaiah 6:3 – Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
“And one cried to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;The whole earth is full of His glory!'” Note: Verses 1-5 give the context — Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on a throne, the...
1 Peter 4:18 – The righteous one is scarcely saved
“Now 'If the righteous one is scarcely saved,Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?'”Note: The NIV misses the impact of this verse by translating it as "if it is hard for the righteous to be...
Psalm 119:18 – Open my eyes, that I may see
“Open my eyes, that I may seeWondrous things from Your law.”Question: What do we understand by saying, “God, open my eyes” What does God enable us to see? His almighty power In 2 kings 6, the King...
1 Timothy 1:15 – Jesus came to save sinners
“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.”Question: What encouragement do you find in this verse? How does...
1 Thessalonians 4:9 – Taught by God to love one another
“But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another”Question: How does God teach you to love other people? Brotherly...
Colossians 3:8-11 – Put on the new
“8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his...
Share your thoughts
You are welcome to add to the discussion by commenting, sharing your reflections, and suggesting other verses.
Contributions welcome ...
My aim in setting up this page was to share personal reflections on bible verses as a help to people as they set out on their journey of faith, and explore bible readings.
Comments, challenging (but sincere) questions, and suggestions for other verses not listed here, are all welcome.
Also welcome are your personal reflections on these verses where they are in line with this aim — brief reflections can be listed in the comments on a verse, while more lengthy reflections will be shown on a separate page with a link from the main page for that verse, and listed under the contributor’s name. Use the contact form to send these, listing the relevant verse and date, your screen name and email address, and attaching any relevant files.
Due to the problems of spam and viral attacks on websites, I will review comments and contributions before they appear on the site.
The type of contributions which would not support this aim are those copied from other sources (keep it personal), those promoting a particular doctrine or ideology (keep it to a heartfelt response to the verse), or promoting concepts built on human logic that discourage us on our journey (unfortunately there is no shortage of these).
As with the small group I attend, we are blessed by a variety of perspectives.
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