{"id":17391,"date":"2026-01-30T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=17391"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:06:07","slug":"ephesians-42-todays-verse-for-friday-january-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=17391","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 4:2 \u2014 Today&#8217;s Verse for Friday, January 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>&#8220;You mean I have to put up with all this from that person!?&#8221; There are those folks in life about whom the saying is true: &#8220;They are the grit out of which we are to fashion our pearls.&#8221; Our great example in this challenge &#8211; &#8220;To be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.&#8221; &#8211; is Jesus. Jesus has fashioned many pearls from pretty bad grit. Think of what he had to put up with in his 12 disciples. Remember how the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>&#8216;s patience and kindness helped transform them. His love persevered through so many of their failures, especially failures in his hardest and darkest moments. In the process, however, Jesus&#8217; life of humbleness, gentleness, patience, and love transformed them. Can we dare to do less with those for whom Christ died?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve included Phil&#8217;s ToGather video from four years ago as an added blessing to our verse today:<\/p>\n<p>Please give me strength and patience, O God. I know the Holy Spirit can and will, so I ask for this help because I long to be as loving, gentle, and patient with others as Jesus was with people during his earthly ministry, and you have been with me. So, I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus, my <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> and hero, to become more JESUShaped and live like him. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You mean I have to put up with all this from that person!?&#8221; There are those folks in life about whom the saying is true: &#8220;They are the grit out of which we are to fashion our pearls.&#8221; Our great example in this challenge &#8211; &#8220;To be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[44,55,2829,51,43],"class_list":["post-17391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-trivia","tag-ephesians","tag-friday","tag-january","tag-todays","tag-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}