Daily Bible Verses

¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty years;
    yet their pride is but labour and sorrow,
    for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger,
    your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
¹² So teach us to count our days,
    ...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to take what you give us today, and to share it with others  so that we may be blessed and be a blessing to others, particularly when we are feeling broken. 

¹⁹ He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass;
and he took the five loaves and the two fish,
and looking up to heaven, he blessed,
broke and
gave the loaves to the...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to act appropriately,
knowing when to challenge what is wrong
and when to be gracious to those who wrong us.  

¹⁸ According to their deeds,
    he will repay as appropriate,
    wrath to his adversaries,
    recompense to his enemies;
    he will repay the islands...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear your precious call to godly living

³ seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, 
⁴ by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises;
that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature,
having...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see what resources we have and put them at your disposal

¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
¹⁷ They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”
¹⁸ He said, “Bring them here to me.” 

³ You turn man to destruction, saying,
    “Return, you children of men.”
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
    like a watch in the night.
⁵ You sweep them away as they sleep.
    In the morning they sprout like new grass.
⁶ In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
  ...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be compassionate

¹⁴ Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them and healed their sick. ¹⁵ When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to put on righteousness and salvation, particularly in the face of untruths. 

¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking;
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Yahweh saw it,
    and it displeased him that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no intercessor....

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in grace and peace

² Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 

Heavenly father
give us grace today 

¹² His disciples came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. 
¹³ Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart.
When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

¹⁴ Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them and healed their sick. ¹⁵ ...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek you when we feel down (as Jesus did on the death of his cousin)

¹¹ His head was brought on a platter and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother. ¹² His disciples came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. ¹³ Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard...

¹     Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
²     Before the mountains were born,
    before you had formed the earth and the world,
    even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to stop us being foolish, particularly around pleasure and beauty

⁶ But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod. 
⁷ Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. 
⁸ She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
⁹ The...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak truthfully and act with justice

¹¹ We all roar like bears
    and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
    for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹² For our sins testify against us;
    and our transgressions are with us,
¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh,
  ...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to serve others, trusting in the righteousness of Jesus

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern if and when we need to speak about truth and justice 

¹ At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, 
² and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.” 
³ For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s...

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a]whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work...

⁴⁶ How long, Yahweh?
    Will you hide yourself forever?
    Will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is,
    for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
⁴⁸ What man is he who shall live and not see death,
    who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
^...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to follow the way of peace and turn away from evil, particularly in our thoughts. 

⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
    Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They don’t know the way of peace;
    and there is no justice in their ways....

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be channels of love and peace to others

¹⁴ Greet one another with a kiss of love.
Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to discover new things about the kingdom of God

⁵¹ Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”

They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

⁵² He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

1 Clap your hands, all you nations;
    shout to God with cries of joy.

2 For the Lord Most High is awesome,
    the great King over all the earth.
3 He subdued nations under us,
    peoples under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us,
    the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.[...

²⁹ I will also make his offspring endure forever,
    and his throne as the days of heaven.
³⁰ If his children forsake my law,
    and don’t walk in my ordinances;
³¹ if they break my statutes,
    and don’t keep my commandments;
³² then I will punish their sin with the rod,
    and their iniquity with stripes.
...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be of use in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

⁴⁷ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, 
⁴⁸ which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach.
They sat down and gathered the good [useful] into containers, but the bad they threw away. 
⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak the truth, and seek after it.

¹ Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
    nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you and your God,
    and your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood,...