Bible Verses

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

  1 You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
  2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
  3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
  4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
  5 You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
  6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

  7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
  8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
  9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
  10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
  11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
  12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

  13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
  14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
  15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
  16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
  17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
  18 Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

  19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
    Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
  20 They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries misuse your name.
  21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
  22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.
  23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
  24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

 Psalm 139 

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 

6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 

5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”

6 So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?”

Hebrews 13:5-6 

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” 

John 10:27-30 

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

1 John 5:14-15 

7 “In my distress I called to the Lord;
    I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
    my cry came to his ears.

2 Samuel 22:7 

Psalm 91

  1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
  2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

  3 Surely he will save you
    from the fowler’s snare
    and from the deadly pestilence.
  4 He will cover you with his feathers,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
  5 You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
  6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.
  7 A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.
  8 You will only observe with your eyes
    and see the punishment of the wicked.

  9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
    and you make the Most High your dwelling,
  10 no harm will overtake you,
    no disaster will come near your tent.
  11 For he will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you in all your ways;
  12 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
  13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 

  14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
    I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
  15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble,
    I will deliver him and honor him.
  16 With long life I will satisfy him
    and show him my salvation.”

Psalm 91 

12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
    and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

1 Peter 3:12 

31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.

John 9:31