Bible Verses for Every Season of Life
Curated scripture for what you're facing today: love, healing, strength, anxiety, hope, and every moment between. Each collection is quoted in the World English Bible, Catholic Edition, with Catholic commentary from AngelGuard.
These are collections of Bible verses gathered by what a person is actually facing: fear, grief, illness, temptation, gratitude, a decision that will not wait. Each collection quotes the World English Bible, Catholic Edition, and adds short Catholic commentary from AngelGuard explaining what the passage meant and how to pray it.
Verse collections by topic
Bible Verses About Love
What Scripture says about the love of God, love for one another, and the love that outlasts everything else.
Bible Verses About Healing
Scripture to pray over the sick, for the body, the mind, and the wounded heart.
Bible Verses for Strength and Courage
Scripture for the moments that ask more of you than you think you have.
Bible Verses About Forgiveness
Scripture on being forgiven by God and finding the grace to forgive others.
Bible Verses About Trust
Scripture for learning to lean on God rather than on your own understanding.
Bible Verses About Peace
Scripture for a troubled heart, an anxious mind, and a world that cannot give lasting rest.
Bible Verses About Anxiety
Scripture to hold onto when worry will not let go, for the anxious mind and the sleepless night.
Bible Verses About Faith
Scripture on believing what we cannot see, and the faith that moves mountains.
Bible Verses for Mother’s Day
Scripture to honor mothers, bless the woman who raised you, and give thanks for the gift of motherhood.
Bible Verses About Hope
Scripture for holding on when the future feels dark, the hope that does not disappoint.
Bible Verses About Prayer
Scripture on how to pray, what to ask, and the God who hears, including the Lord’s Prayer.
Bible Verses About Death
Scripture for grief, for the dying, and for the Christian hope that death is not the end.
Which Bible translation is used here?
The World English Bible, Catholic Edition, a modern public-domain translation that includes the deuterocanonical books and carries no licence restrictions, so the text can be quoted in full rather than paraphrased. Where a prayer or devotion has a fixed traditional wording, the Douay-Rheims is used instead, because that is the English the devotion itself is written in. Each page states which translation it is quoting.
How should you read a verse you have been given?
Slowly, and with its neighbours. A verse lifted clean out of its chapter can be made to say almost anything, which is why the Church reads scripture whole. Read the lines before and after. Notice who is speaking and to whom. Then read it a second time as a prayer rather than as information, and stop at whatever phrase catches. That pause is usually the point, and it is the oldest method of Christian reading there is.
What if the words do not seem to help today?
That is ordinary, and it is not a sign that anything has gone wrong. Scripture is not a switch for feelings. Saints who prayed daily for decades wrote about long stretches when prayer felt like nothing at all, and kept going. Say the words anyway, keep them short, and let repetition do the work that emotion cannot. If what you are carrying is heavier than prayer alone should carry, tell someone: a priest, a doctor, a person who loves you.