Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to do whatever acts of kindness are within our power to do. 

³⁸ After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 
³⁹ Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also…

Heavenly father
give us grace to admit to our frailty and to our needs, to consistently do your will, and to place ourselves in your hands

²⁸ After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” 
²⁹ Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 
^30 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to care for those closest too us, whether or not they are our biological family 

²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat.
Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 
²⁴ Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture…

Heavenly father
give us grace to give our allegiance to you rather than to any earthly power, whatever the consequences

¹² At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
¹³ When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out
and sat down…

Heavenly father
give us grace to use power to do good (as Pilate wanted to do) rather than to do evil (as the chief priests and officers did)

⁴ Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
⁵ Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
⁶ When therefore…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek after truth today

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
³⁸ Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this, he…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek your kingdom which is not of this world

²⁸ They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. 
²⁹ Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
³⁰ They answered him, “If this man weren’t an…

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid the temptations of hearing without understand, of abusing of power, of denying what we know to be true

¹⁹ The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 
²⁰ Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret. 
^21 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid violence and deceit today, however much we are provoked 

¹⁰ Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it,
struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. 
¹¹ Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
¹² So…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be truthful and kind, particularly in the face of hatred and violence 

¹ When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron,
where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. 
² Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 
³ Judas then, having taken a detachment of…

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore put on…

[The Northern Kingdom Israel abandoned God and went into exile]

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
    and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was angry,
    and greatly abhorred Israel,
⁶⁰ so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
    the tent which he placed among men,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving today

² Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
³ Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
⁴ Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 
⁵ …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to abide in you today in peace

⁸ Your watchmen lift up their voice.
    Together they sing;
    for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.  [i.e. our heavenly father living in his people]
⁹ Break out into joy!
    Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; [parts of our lives from which we…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and evil speaking

¹ Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 
² as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, 
³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 

Heavenly father
give us grace to be a blessing to others today, particularly those who need our help.  

¹ He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. 
² Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
 

Yahweh, you have searched me,
    and you know me.
² You know my sitting down and my rising up.
    You perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You search out my path and my lying down,
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue,
    but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
⁵ You hem…

[Book of Joshua]

⁵⁴ He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
    to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.  
⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them,
    allotted them for an inheritance by line,             
    and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

[Books of 1 and 2 Kings, particularly…

Heavenly father give us grace to repent of our “pig-farmer” self interest and open our lives to you so that we may be blessing to others, particularly those who are damaged.  

²⁸ When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, 
two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. 
²⁹ Behold, they cried out,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to to speak words of peace and of good news today

 ⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
    who publishes peace,
    who brings good news,
    who proclaims salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to your truth in love today.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls
in your obedience to the truth
through the Spirit
in sincere brotherly affection,
love one another from the heart fervently, 
²³ having been born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
through the word of God,
which lives and remains forever. 
²⁴ For, “All…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be full of faith (rather than full of fear) in whatever storms we face today. 

²³ When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 
²⁴ Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves;
but he was asleep. 
²⁵ The disciples came to him and woke him up,
saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
^…

⁶ Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷ Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
    and grieved him in the desert!
⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God,
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They didn’t remember his hand,
    nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt: ^44…

Heavenly father
give us grace to follow your Son, Jesus today, particularly in the face of tragedy.  

²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to know you and your justice today and have no part in oppression.

¹Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
    Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
    for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. [and oppress you]
² Shake yourself from the dust!
    Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose faith and hope are in you, particularly when faced with anything that is at all deadly

¹⁸ [live] knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, 
²⁰ who was foreknown indeed…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose who live in the kingdom of heaven 

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
¹⁹ A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”…

1 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
    let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;
    turn your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my rock of refuge,
    to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
    for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
 …

[God gave the Israelites mannah and quail to eat in the wilderness]

²⁹ So they ate, and were well filled.
    He gave them their own desire.
³⁰ They didn’t turn from their cravings. [presumably something other than the mannah and quail]
    Their food was yet in their mouths,
³¹     when the anger of God went up against…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be unafraid when confronted with all forms of mental illness, and respond to the person graciously. 

¹⁶ When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons.
He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 
¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust in your justice today

[The consequences of turning from the peaceful and righteous way of the Lord apply to all people.  
In this case this has happened to the people of Jerusalem (in the shape of desolation, destruction, famine and sword),
but it will also happen to those who have walked over and afflicted them]

¹⁷ Awake, awake!
    Stand up, Jerusalem,
 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you today, rejecting all other useless ways of life

¹⁷ If you call on him as Father,
who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work,
pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, 
¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow ourselves to be touched by you, and then to touch others with the same grace as we serve them

¹⁴ When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. 
¹⁵ He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him. 

²¹ But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; ²² even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, ²³ for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; ²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ^25 …

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
    They returned and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock,
    the Most High God, their redeemer.
³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth,
    and lied to him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not right with him,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those who belong to the household of faith, lest we fall into faith-less habits and find ourselves in a dark place

¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, 
“Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. 
¹¹ I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live as your children so that your kingdom may come on earth as it is in heaven. 

¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth
    and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens,
    and lay the foundations of the earth,
    and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be pure in our thoughts and then in our actions today.

¹³ Therefore prepare your minds for action. 
Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 
¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 
¹⁵ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to voice our deepest needs and our highest hopes. 

⁵ When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help, 
⁶ saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
⁷ Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
⁸ The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to dare to put our hopes into words and listen to your response

¹ When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 
² Behold, a leper came to him and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

³ Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn to you when we have problems, particularly when we are trapped, when we face death and when our resources fail. 

¹⁴ The captive exile will speedily be freed.
    He will not die and go down into the pit.
    His bread won’t fail.
¹⁵ For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as those who are set free from the fear that we are alone when we suffer
and those who live in the glorious freedom of the risen Christ

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently.
They prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 
¹¹ searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ,
which was in them, pointed to, when he…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to what we know you are calling us to do today 

²⁴ “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them,
I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. 
²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. 
²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine and…

6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
7 I would flee far away and stay in the desert;
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”

²² they didn’t believe in God,
    and didn’t trust in his salvation.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above,
    and opened the doors of heaven.
²⁴ He rained down manna on them to eat,
    and gave them food from the sky.
²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels.
    He sent them food to the full.
^26 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to do your will today 

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 
²² Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name,
in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 
²³ Then I will tell them, ‘I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to not be afraid today, but to find comfort in you. 

¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
    Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
    and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
¹³ Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
    who stretched out the heavens,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace to love, trust and give thanks today

⁷ [your faith] may be found to result in praise, glory, and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 
⁸ whom, not having known, you love.
In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing,
you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, 
⁹ receiving the result of your…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be attentive to the actions of others, particularly when it is at odds with their words. 

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 
¹⁶ By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 
¹⁷ Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree…