Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in you and live pure lives

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. 
⁴ Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. 
⁵ You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him. 
⁶ Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to listen, particularly when we need to hear difficult messages. 

³⁵ ‘The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 
³⁶ Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them in the same way. 
 

1 I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
    To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
2 I will be careful to live a blameless life.
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be content where you have placed us and see around us all your provision for us, even when you seem absent. 

³³ ‘Listen to another parable: there was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall round it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. ³⁴ When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in hope for peace

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
    Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
    says Yahweh.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in hope.

² Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to faithfully do what acts of righteousness that you call us to do.

²⁸ ‘What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”
²⁹ ‘“I will not,” he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
³⁰ ‘Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, “I will, sir,” but he did not go.
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9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,...

³ Know that Yahweh, he is God.
    It is he who has made us, and we are his.
    We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
    and into his courts with praise.
    Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
⁵ For Yahweh is good.
    His loving kindness endures forever,
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be wise when we are confronted by people whose heart is not for the kingdom of Heaven

²³ Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. ‘By what authority are you doing these things?’ they asked. ‘And who gave you this authority?’

²⁴ Jesus replied, ‘I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to speak our deepest desires to you today

²⁴ It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
    and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know that we are loved

¹ See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and ask for kingdom things 

²⁰ When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. ‘How did the fig-tree wither so quickly?’ they asked.

²¹ Jesus replied, ‘Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig-tree, but also you can say to this mountain, “Go, throw yourself into the sea,” and it will be done. ²² ...

In the beginning

¹ Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
²     Serve Yahweh with gladness.
    Come before his presence with singing.
 

Heavenly father
give us grace to bear fruit for the benefit of others today

¹⁸ Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ Seeing a fig-tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice righteousness today

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 
²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to talk about the hope we have, particularly when we sense that we are childlike in our understanding.  

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.
¹⁶ ‘Do you...

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel was among those who call on his name.
    They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
    They kept his testimonies,
    the statute that he gave them.
⁸ You answered them, Yahweh our God.
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to pray constantly

¹² Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves. ¹³ ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘“My house will be called a house of prayer,” but you are making it “a den of robbers.”’

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the anointing of your spirit to remain in us today, and to learn from you

²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. 
²⁷ As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to follow in the steps of Jesus, doing everything in the name of the Lord

⁹ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’
¹¹ The...