Daily Bible Verses

Give us grace to trust in you today

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
²For if Abraham was made righteous out of works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
³For what does the Scripture say?
“Abraham Trusted in God, and it was accounted to him towards righteousness.”
⁴Now to him who works, the...

Jesus said: ¹⁹ Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Heavenly father, give us grace to hear your voice and be obedient to what you call us to do. 

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

 

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry   JAMES 1:19

Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: ‘People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship...

14 And we urge you, brothers [and sisters], admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not...

Yaweh, may your will become  the will of the world’s leaders so that peace may break out for all peoples.

3. Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.”

The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many...

Dear Lord, We thank-you so much for your Promise that this present Storm/Winter we are in will pass, that the season of Spring will come again. Help us to look up and see what you are doing and the courage to get up and go with you when you call us out of one season of our lives into another.  Amen.

11See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
¹² Flowers appear on the earth;
   ...

He will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

Give us grace to be faithful today and avoid all boasting

²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded.
By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faithfulness.
²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is made righteous by faithfulness apart from the works of the law.
²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only?
Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
³⁰since indeed there is one...

Give us grace to show forth your righteousness today, coming out of the faithfulness of Jesus

For there is no distinction,
²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
²⁴being made righteous freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith(fulness) in his blood,
for a showing forth of his righteousness
through the passing...

Give us the grace of Jesus Christ to be faithful today

^3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says,
it speaks to those who are under the law,
that every mouth may be closed,
and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight;
for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
^3:21But now apart from...

Give us grace to seek after you, to fear you and to know the way of peace today

^3:9What then? Are we better than they?
No, in no way.
For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
¹⁰As it is written,
“There is no one righteous;  no, not one.
¹¹There is no one who understands.
 There is no one who seeks after God.
^...

Give us grace to avoid taking your goodness for granted.

^3:5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say?
Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
⁶May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
⁷For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
why am I also still judged as a sinner?
⁸Why not (as we are slanderously...

Give us grace to be true to what you have revealed of yourself to us

^3:1Then what advantage does the Jew have?
Or what is the profit of circumcision?
²Much in every way!
Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
³For what if some were without faith?
Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
⁴May it never be! Yes, let God be found true...

Give us grace to love you with all our hearts today.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law,
but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law,
won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
²⁷Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you,
who with...

Give us grace to have integrity today, and do the things that we know are good.

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
¹⁸know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind,
a light to those who are in darkness,
²⁰a corrector of the foolish,
a teacher of babies, having in...

Give us grace to listen to you speaking to us through our conscience today

¹²For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law.
As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God,
but the doers of the law will be justified
¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law,
these...

Give us grace to perseverance in well-doing today, repenting of being self seeking and unrighteous

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart
you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation,
and of the righteous judgement of God;
⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour...

Give us grace today to not stand in judgement over others, but to repent of our own failings

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge.
For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself.
For you who judge practice the same things.
²We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
³Do you think this, O man who judges...

Give us grace today to turn away from all that is disobedient to you.

²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, ³⁰backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; ³²...

Give us grace today to have our knowledge based in you.

²⁶For this reason (their suppression of the truth of God in unrighteousness), God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. ²⁷Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due...

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be...

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. ²⁰For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen...

Give us grace to live faithfully as Jesus lived faithfully, and so be part of your revelation of your righteousness and your power

^1:13Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. ^15...

Give us grace to live faithfully in a caring community today, where we give and receive support and encouragement through prayer and through gifts

^1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. ⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰...