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Verse Meanings
The verses people quote most are often the ones least read in place. A sentence lifted out of a letter, a lament or a prophecy can be made to promise almost anything, and the most-shared verses tend to carry the most baggage.
Each page here takes one verse and reads it where it stands: who was writing, to whom, and what was happening around them; what the verse actually claims, and what it does not; where it is most often misread; and the passages that sit alongside it. The verse itself is quoted in full in both the English Standard Version and the King James Version, and you can switch between them on any page.
None of this makes a verse smaller. More often it makes it sturdier — something that still holds when the situation it was quoted into does not resolve the way you hoped.
- Romans 8:28Romans 8:28 MeaningAmong the most quoted verses in the New Testament, and among the most misused at funerals. Here is what Paul actually claims.
- Jeremiah 29:11Jeremiah 29:11 MeaningThe verse on more graduation cards than any other, written to people who were told to unpack and settle in.
- Psalm 34:18Psalm 34:18 MeaningA verse for the middle of it, not the end of it.