Verse of the Day
John 16:24 NIV
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
Translations of Today's Verse
King James Version
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.English Standard Version
The Message
Ask in my name, according to my will, and he'll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!New King James Version
Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.New Living Translation
You haven't done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.John 16:24 In-Context
22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
25 "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
This Week's Daily Bible Verses
Thursday, September 18
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Read all of Romans 12 NIVWednesday, September 17
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
Read all of James 3 NIVTuesday, September 16
Romans 5:6-8
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Read all of Romans 5 NIVMonday, September 15
Genesis 50:20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Read all of Genesis 50 NIVSunday, September 14
Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
Read all of Proverbs 11 NIVSaturday, September 13
Romans 12:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Read all of Romans 12 NIVFriday, September 12
Psalm 33:18
The eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.
Read all of Psalm 33 NIV
Commentary on Today's Verse
Commentary on John 16:23-27
(Read John 16:23-27)
Asking of the Father shows a sense of spiritual wants, and a desire of spiritual blessings, with conviction that they are to be had from God only. Asking in Christ's name, is acknowledging our unworthiness to receive any favours from God, and shows full dependence upon Christ as the Lord our Righteousness. Our Lord had hitherto spoken in short and weighty sentences, or in parables, the import of which the disciples did not fully understand, but after his resurrection he intended plainly to teach them such things as related to the Father and the way to him, through his intercession. And the frequency with which our Lord enforces offering up petitions in his name, shows that the great end of the mediation of Christ is to impress us with a deep sense of our sinfulness, and of the merit and power of his death, whereby we have access to God. And let us ever remember, that to address the Father in the name of Christ, or to address the Son as God dwelling in human nature, and reconciling the world to himself, are the same, as the Father and Son are one.