Verse of the day

One passage a day, with a written teaching drawn from the commentators who have sat on pastors' shelves for two centuries — Matthew Henry, John Gill, Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon among them. Every teaching is read before it is published.

• Proverbs 13:20 September 8

  The elders worth hearing out learned what they know from their own fathers.

• 1 Corinthians 1:25 September 7

  Men looked at the fishermen God had sent and concluded the weakness was his.

• Proverbs 4:7 September 6

  Solomon had tutors. His father did the teaching anyway.

• James 1:19 September 5

  A man kept shouting Hear me at Augustine, who made hearers of them both.

• Colossians 2:3 September 4

  One line later, Paul warns them about being beguiled with enticing words.

• 2 Timothy 2:15 September 3

  Interpreters once had a method they called a sharp knife that cuts and divides the Scriptures.

• Proverbs 2:6 September 2

  A man is ordered to search hard for wisdom, and warned in advance not to credit the search.

• Proverbs 1:7 September 1

  The fear at the head of a young man's education is not the fear of hell.

• 2 Corinthians 9:8 August 31

  Paul had boasted to Macedonia about money the Corinthians had not yet collected.

• Proverbs 3:9-10 August 30

  The promise fills a wine press to bursting and leaves the wardrobe out of it.

• Luke 12:24 August 29

  A man storing his crop had just been counted a fool. The raven held up next has no barn at all.

• Malachi 3:10 August 28

  Last time the windows of heaven were opened, the world drowned.

• Psalm 37:25 August 27

  David begged his bread from a priest, and it was while Saul was hunting him.

• Matthew 6:34 August 26

  Halfway through the verse, tomorrow becomes a person with worries of its own.

• Philippians 4:19 August 25

  In those first days no other church had sent Paul anything. This promise is written to the one that did.

• Psalm 42:11 August 24

  Six verses back he had given himself the same advice, and gone on mourning since.

• 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 August 23

  The rescue reaches him on the ground, with the enemy still standing over him.

• Romans 8:18 August 22

  He added up what following Christ had cost. It came to very little.

• Psalm 31:24 August 21

  He was as safe in the caves as inside a strong city, and certain Saul would kill him.