Bible Ready Reference Guide

In Crisis? Need Encouragement? Have Questions?

 

Have you ever wondered:

What is the appropriate Bible verse for your question?

What Bible verse could help someone in need?

How can I gain inspiration and encouragement from God’s word?

 

This resource guide was developed to assist you with inspirational thoughts from the greatest book ever written – The Holy Bible.

Comfort

2 Cor. 1:3-4 “the God of all comfort”

Is. 66:13-14 “you will be comforted”

Is. 61:3 “For those who grieve”

Ps. 23:4 “I will fear no evil, for you are with me”

Matt. 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted”

Acts 9:31 “It was strengthened; and encouraged by the Holy Spirit”

1 Thess. 4:8 “Therefor encourage each other with these words.”

Ps. 56:3 “When I am afraid, I will trust in you”

Ps. 31:14 “But I trust in you,O lord; I say, “You are my God.”

Is. 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.”

Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;”

1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you”

Jos. 1:9 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged”

John 16:13 “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!”

Rom. 8:13 “If God is for us,who can be against us?”

Matt. 11:28 “Come to me , all you who are weary … and I will give you rest.”

John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.”

Phil. 1:6 “He who began the good work in you will carry it on to completion.”

Phil. 4:13 “I can do everything through him who give me strength.”

Ps. 55:22 “Cast yours cares on the Lord and he will sustain you;”

Is. 41:13 “For I am the Lord, your God … Do not fear; I will help you.”

Is. 40:29 “He give strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”

Phil. 1:19 “What has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.”

Rom. 8:28 “God works for the good of those who love him,”

Heb. 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for”

Job 23:10 “When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.”

2 Cor. 4:17 “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us”

Job 36:17 “He does not take his eyes off the righteous;”

Ps. 27:14 “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”

Is. 26:3 “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast,”

Prov. 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart”

Ps. 119:28 “strengthen me according to your word”

Ps. 30:5 “his favor lasts a lifetime”

Ps. 42:6-7 “My soul is downcast within me”

Ps. 31:19-21 “How abundant are the good things”

Prov. 12:25 “a kind word cheers”

John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled”

Ps. 62:8 “Trust in him at all times”

Ps. 34:5 “Those who look to him are radiant”

Deut. 33:27 “The eternal God is your refuge”

Ex. 14:13-14 “Do not be afraid”

Ps. 34:6 “the Lord heard him”

Ps. 41:3 “The Lord sustains”

2 Sam 22:28 “You save the humble”

2 Cor. 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you”

Heb. 13:6 “The Lord is my helper”

Ps. 141:8 “In you I take refuge”

Ex. 3:7-8 “I am concerned about their suffering”

Ps. 18:32 “It is God who arms me with strength”

Matt. 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn”

Nahum 1:7 “He cares for those who trust him”

Ps. 9:9-11 “The lord is a refuge for the oppressed”

Is. 41:13 “I will help you”

Is. 25:4 “You have been are refuge”

Ps. 27:5-6 “he will keep me safe”

Is. 40:29 “He give strengths”

Jer.31;13-14 “I will turn their mourning into gladness”

Ps. 107:19-20 “he saved them from their distress”

Ps. 31:9-10 “Be merciful to me, Lord”

Ps. 69:1-3 “Save me, O God”

Ps. 119:143 “Trouble and distress have come upon me”

2 Sam 22:29 “You, Lord, are my lamp”

John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you”

Ps. 31:24 “Be strong and take heart”

Ps. 69:32-24 “The Lord hears the needy”

Ps. 34:7 “the Lord encamps around those who fear him”

Ps. 34:4 “he delivered me”

Ps. 63:3-7 “Because your love is better than life”

Ps. 69:29-30 “may your salvation, God, protect me”

Ps. 42:11 “Put your hope in God”

Ps. 119:50 “Your promise preserves”

Is. 50:10 “Trust in the name of the Lord”

Jer. 31:25 “I will refresh the weary”

Healing

Ps. 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

Prov. 3:8 “This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.”

Jer. 3:22 “Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.”

Acts 9:34 “Jesus Christ healed you.”

Luke 18:42 “your faith has healed you”

Jer. 30:17 “But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds”

Ps. 69:29-30 “But as for me, afflicted and in pain”

Mark 5:35-36 “Don’t be afraid; just believe”

Ps. 107:20 “He sent out his word and healed them”

Lam. 3:33 “he does not willingly bring affliction”

Matt 15:30 “he healed them”

John 4:47-50 “your son will live”

Matt. 8:13 “his servant was healed”

Matt. 9:32-33 “Nothing like this has ever been seen”

James 5:14-6 “the Lord will raise them up”

Luke 4:40 “the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness,”

Mark 11:23-25 “whatever you ask for in prayer”

Acts 5:16 “all of them were healed”

Rom. 10:17 “faith comes from hearing the message”

Matt. 9:21 “If I only touch his cloak”

Matt. 12:22 “and Jesus healed him”

Acts 28:8 “placed his hands on him and healed him”

Mark 16:17-20 “they will place their hands on sick people”

Mark 6:13 “anointed many sick people”

Matt. 12:10-13 “it was completed restored”

Acts 28:27 “I would heal them”

Matt. 18:19-20if two of you on earth agree”

Matt. 8:8 “just say the word”

Matt. 10:1 “to heal every disease and sickness”

Mark 5:41-42 “I say to you, get up”

Matt. 10:7-8 “Heal the sick , raise the dead”

Luke 9:42 “Jesus rebuked the impure spirit”

1 Pet. 2:24 “by his wounds you have been healed”

Luke 17:15 “when he saw he was healed”

Ex. 15:26 “I am the lord,who heals you”

Matt. 12:15 “he healed all who were ill”

Luke 9:2 “to heal the sick”

Matt. 14:14 “and he healed their sick”

Acts 4:30 “Stretch out your hand to heal”

Mark 5:23 “Please come and put your hands on her”

Mark 10:52 “immediately he received his sight”

Luke 5:15 “crowds of people came to hear him ”

Luke 8:47-48 “Daughter, your faith has healed you”

Is. 53:5 “by his wounds we are healed”

John 5:17 “ask whatever you wish”

2 Kings 20:5 “I will heal you”

Matt. 9:28-30 “According to your faith let it be done”

Ps. 103:2-5 “Praise the Lord, my soul”

Matt. 9:22 your faith has healed you”

Encouragement

1 Thess. 5:11 “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up”

Heb. 3:13 “But encourage one another daily,”

Rom. 15:5 “May the God who gives endurance and encouragement”

Heb. 6:18 “take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.”

Ps. 31:22 “you heard my cry for mercy”

Jonah 2:6 “brought my life up from the pit”

John 14:18 “I will not leave you”

Rom. 8:26-28 “the Spirit himself intercedes for us”

Is. 30:18 “he will rise up to show you compassion”

Micah 7:7 “My God will hear me”

John 16:33 “in me you may have peace”

Acts 14:22 “encouraging them to remain true”

Rom. 8:18 “the glory that will be revealed”

2 Cor. 4:17 “For our light and momentary troubles”

John 16:20 “your grief will turn to joy”

1 Pet. 5:10 “Will himself restore you”

Ps. 126:5 “Sow with tears will reap with songs of joy”

Ps. 23:4 “I will fear no evil”

Ps. 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength”

Ps. 50:15 “call on me in the day of trouble”

Ps. 55:22 “Cast your cares on the Lord”

Ps. 73:26 “My flesh and my heart my fail”

Ps. 119:143 Trouble and distress have come upon me”

Ps. 138:3 “When I called, you answered me”

Ps. 138:7 “Though I walk in the midst of trouble’

Ps. 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted”

Is. 41:10 “do not fear, for I am with you”

Is. 43:2 “I will be with you”

Matt 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary”

Luke 6:21 “Blessed are you who”

John 16:22 “Now is your time of grief”

Rom. 8:28 “All things God works for the good”

Rom. 8:35 “Who shall separate us”

Rom. 12:12 “Be joyful in hope”

2 Cor. 1:3 “Praise be the God”

2 Cor. 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for you”

1 Pet. 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety”

Ps. 27:5 “For in the day of trouble”

Who God Is

Rev. 1:8 “Alpha and the Omega”

1 John 2:1 “an advocate”

Rom. 11:33-36 “unsearchable”

Jer. 32:17 “sovereign”

Ps. 145:8 “gracious and compassionate”

Neh. 9:6 “give life to everything”

Col. 1:16 “all things have been created through him”

Ps. 68:20 “a God who saves”

2 Thess 3:3 “the Lord is faithful”

1 John 3:1-2 “the great love the father has lavished”

Heb. 12:29 “God is consuming fire”

Ps. 144:2 “my fortress, my shield”

James 1:17 “does not change like shifting shadows”

1 Tim. 6:15-16 “only ruler, king of kings and Lord of Lords”

Ps. 145:9 “he has compassion on all”

Is. 41:10 “I am your God”

Heb. 13:6 “The Lord is my helper”

Rev. 15:4 “For you alone are holy”

Mal. 3:6 “I the Lord do not change”

Rom. 1:23 “the immortal God”

Heb. 7:25 “he always lives in intercede”

Ex. 34:14 “is a jealous God”

Ps. 9:7-8 “reigns forever”

Deut. 32:4 “He is the Rock”

Rev. 15:3-4 “King of the nations” “holy” “righteous”

Ps. 27:1 “stronghold of my life”

Is. 9:16 “Wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”

Ps. 121 “Maker of Heaven and earth”

Ps. 91:1-2 “my refuge and my fortress”

Dan. 4:34-35 “He does as He pleases”

John 15 “the gardener”

Is. 6:1 “I saw the Lord, high and exalted”

Is. 48:17 “Redeemer, Holy One of Israel”

Is. 64:8 “we are the clay, you are the potter”

Ps. 29:11“The Lord gives strength to his people; blesses his people with peace.”

Is. 26:4 “Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the Rock eternal.”

Ps. 139:13 “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in the whom.”

Acts 17:28 “For in him we live and move and have our being.”

John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”

1 Ch. 29:11-12 Omnipotent

Ps. 139:7-12 Omnipresent

Heb. 4:13 Omniscient

Ps. 104 Creator of the universe

Rom. 12:9 A God of vengeance

Job 38,39 Creator and Sustainer of everything

Gen. 22:14 Jehovah-jireh “the Lord will provide”

Jud. 6:24 Jehovah-Salom “The Lord of peace”

Ex. 17:15 Jehovah-nissi “The Lord is my banner”

Ezek. 48:35 Jehovah-shammah “The Lord is there”

1 Sam. 17:45 Jehovah-tesbaoth “The LOrd of hosts”

What God Does

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,”

1 Cor. 15:10 “But by the grace of God I am what I am”

Deut. 4:31 “For the Lord your God is a merciful God;”

1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

1 Cor. 2:5 “your faith may not rest on man’s wisdom, but on Gods power”

1 Pet. 1:5 “who through faith are shielded by God’s power”

Ps. 106:8 “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his mighty power known”

John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me”

John 14:27 “Peace i leave with you; my peace I give you”

Is. 14:26 “Because of his great power and mighty strength”

Gen. 1:1 “In the beginning God created heaven and the earth.”

Ex. 3:14 “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.'”

Deut. 5:9 “I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God”

Luke 11:9-13 “give good gifts”

Ps. 68:19 “bears our burdens”

Eph. 1:3 “has blessed us”

1 Cor. 1:9 “God is faithful”

1 Pet. 5:7 “he cares for you”

Is. 46:3-4 “I will sustain you”

1 John 1:9 “he is faithful and just”

2 Cor. 1:3-4 “the Father of compassion”

Rom. 15:5 “give endurance and encouragement”

Eph. 1:7 “forgiveness of sins”

James 4:6 “gives us more grace”

Matt. 11:28-30 “give you rest”

Ps. 119:68 “Your are good, and what you do is good, teach me your decrees.”

2 Chro. 30:18 “May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone”

Acts 4:12 “Salvation”

Is. 40:28-31 “gives strength to the weary”

1 Cor. 15:57 “gives us victory”

Jude 24 “keep you from stumbling”

Rom 8:16-17 “share the glory”

Is. 26:12 “establish peace for us”

Ps. 104 “He sustains the universe”

Ps. 91 “He is my refuge and my fortress”

Ps. 23:3 “He guides me along the right paths”

Ps. 146:9 “sustains the fatherless and the widow”

John 16:13 “guide you into all the truth”

John 16:33 “I have overcome the world”

Ps. 121:3 “he watches over us”

Rom. 6:14 “sin shall not be your master”

Ps. 51:10-13 “sustain me”

Is. 11:4 “with righteousness he will judge”

Is. 43:1-3 “summons us bu name”

Prov. 3:5-6 “makes our paths straight”

Is. 48:17 “directs us in the way to go”

Is. 61:1 “binds up the brokenhearted”

Jer. 9:24 “exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth”

Who Am I In Christ

Gal. 3:26-29 “one in Christ Jesus”

1 John 3:1,2 “called children of God”

John 15:15 “one in Christ Jesus”

John 10:9 “called children of God”

John 1:12 “those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children”

John 3:16 “whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life”

Matt. 4:19 “fishers of men”

Rom. 6:22 “became slaves of God”

Rom. 8:17 “heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ”

1 Cor. 3:16 “you yourselves are Gods temple”

2 Cor. 5:18-19 “reconciling the world to himself in Christ”

Eph. 2:10 “we are Gods handiwork”

Rom. 5:1 “we have peace in God”

Eph. 2:19 “members of his household”

Eph. 4:24 “created to be like God”

Phil. 3:20 “our citizenship is in heaven”

1 Thess 5:5 “children of the light”

Heb. 3:1 “holy brothers and sisters”

Matt. 5:13 “salt of the earth”

Matt. 5:14 “light of the world”

Eph. 5:8 “children of light”

Matt. 6:26-27 “are you not much more valuable”

John 12:36 “sons of light”

John 15:5 “you are the branches”

Rom. 3:24 “justified freely by his grace”

Rom. 4:7 “whose sins are covered”

Rom. 6:11 “alive in God”

Rom. 8:1-2 “set free from the law of sin”

Rom. 8:37 “more than conquerors”

2 Cor. 5:17 “new creation”

Rom. 12:1-2 “transformed by the renewing of our mind”

1 Cor. 12:12-27 “body of Christ”

2 Cor. 5:20-21 “Righteousness of God”

2 Cor. 12:9-10 “when I am weak, then I am strong”

Gal. 3:14 “He redeemed us”

Gal. 5:1 “for freedom Christ has set us free”

Gal. 4:28 “children of promise”

Rom. 6:18 “set free from sin”

1 Pet. 2:9-10 “God’s special possession”