Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to rightly value people and things today, and to value you above all.

⁷ Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. 
⁸ He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child.
When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

⁹ They, having heard the...

1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to...

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink.
    Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
¹⁵ Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,
    neither let the deep swallow me up.
    Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
¹⁶ Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good.
    According to the...

Heavenly father
give us grace to worship you today, and to shepherd those who are entrusted to our care. 

¹ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod,
behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, 
² “Where is he who is born King of the Jews?
For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.” 
³ When King Herod heard it, he...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to your voice today, and grace to rely on you as citizens of the kingdom of heaven, in truth and righteousness

 ¹ “Hear this, house of Jacob,
    you who are called by the name of Israel,
    and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
    and make mention of the God of Israel,
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be your friend today in all that we do.

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well.
The demons also believe, and shudder. 
²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 
²¹ Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 
²² You see that faith worked with...

Heavenly father
give us grace to not only rejoice that you are with us today, but also to be obedient to what you command us to do today. 

²⁰ But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,
‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,
because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 
²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the...

⁷ Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers,
⁹ For the zeal of your house consumes me.
    The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
¹² Those who sit in the gate talk about me.
    I am the song of the drunkards.
¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable...

⁵ God, you know my foolishness.
    My sins aren’t hidden from you.
⁶ Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.
    Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do seek to do what is right and what is kind 

¹⁸ This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about:
his mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph,
but before they came together,
she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 
¹⁹ Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law,
and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
he had in...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be careful and wise in what we trust today, particularly being wary of what makes us comfortable. 

⁸ ‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,  “I am, and there is none besides me.
¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
¹¹ Disaster will come...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to respond to the needs of others in faith

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? 
¹⁵ And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 
¹⁶ and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;”
yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? 
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Heavenly father
give us grace to see the bigger picture today
give us grace to see the importance of those who are marginalised by society (just as women in general and Mary in particular were).

¹² After the exile to Babylon:
Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
¹³ Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,
Abihud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
¹⁴ Azor the...

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

Heavenly father
give us grace to continue to hope when everything is falling apart 

⁶ David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
⁷ Solomon the father of Rehoboam, [who like those in bold afterwards did evil in the sight of the Lord]
Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asa,
⁸ Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to consider what is taking place today and reflect on what might happen tomorrow.

¹ ‘Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon;
     ³ Your nakedness will be exposed - I will take vengeance;
⁴ Our Redeemer – the Lord Almighty is his name –
    is the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ I was angry...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live under the law of freedom, showing mercy to all.

¹² So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. 
¹³ For judgement is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.

Heavenly father
give us grace not to be defined by our failures in the past (both our own and our families) 
 

1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:
² Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob, [who had a feud with Esau]
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers [who all hated Joseph]
³ Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was...

1 Save me, God,
    for the waters have come up to my neck!
² I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.
    I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
³ I am weary with my crying.
    My throat is dry.
    My eyes fail looking for my God.
⁴ Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.
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Heavenly father
give us grace to allow Jesus to live in us today, so that his story may continue

²³ This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die.
Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?” 
²⁴ This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. 
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Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust you for today and tomorrow.

⁹ Remember the former things of old:
    for I am God, and there is no other.
    I am God, and there is none like me.
¹⁰ I declare the end from the beginning,
    and from ancient times things that are not yet done.
I say: My counsel will stand,
    and I will do...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to love others as we love ourselves today.

⁸ However, if you fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself, you do well. 
⁹ But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 
¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all....

Heavenly father
give us grace to receive and give love today.

¹³ Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. 
¹⁴ This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead. 

¹⁵ So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 
“Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”
He said to...

²² The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

²³ The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves,
but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.

²⁴ Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labour.

²⁵ Anxiety weighs down the heart,
but a kind word cheers it up.

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