Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us the grace, courage and honesty to face up to what we do and no not believe

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. 
²⁵ The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails,
put my finger into the print of the nails,
and put my hand into his…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see how we turn away to other sources of fulfilment and strength, and to turn to you for these today. 

²⁰ “Assemble yourselves and come.
    Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,
    and pray to a god that can’t save.
²¹ Declare and present it.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger

¹⁹ So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be
swift to hear,
slow to speak,
and slow to anger; ²⁰ for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. 

Heavenly father
give us the grace of your holy spirit today to face up to what causes pain (in people’s hands and sides) and to be a forgiving presence

²⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 
²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send…

15 The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded. 
2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin.
The Lord is with you when you are with him. 
If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 
3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. 
4 But in their…

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God.
    I will declare what he has done for my soul.
¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth.
    He was extolled with my tongue.
¹⁸ If I cherished sin in my heart,
    the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
¹⁹ But most certainly, God has listened.
    He has heard the voice of my…

Heavenly father give us grace to be at peace, even when circumstances could lead to fear.

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. ¹⁹ When therefore it was evening on that…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to seek you and your righteousness today

¹⁸ For Yahweh who created the heavens,
    the God who formed the earth and made it,
    who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
    who formed it to be inhabited says:
“I am Yahweh.
    There is no other.
¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret,
    in…

Heavenly father give us grace to discern what is not good, and what does not bring life, and to resist the temptation to indulge in such things today

¹² Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved,
he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,”
for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself…

Heavenly father
give us grace to hear your voice today and obey it

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him,
“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,
and I will take him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “…

The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

⁸ Praise our God, you peoples!
    Make the sound of his praise heard,
⁹ who preserves our life among the living,
    and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
¹⁰ For you, God, have tested us.
    You have refined us, as silver is refined.
¹¹ You brought us into prison.
    You laid a burden on our backs.
^12 …

⁵ Come, and see God’s deeds—
    awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
⁶ He turned the sea into dry land.
    They went through the river on foot.
    There, we rejoiced in him.
⁷ He rules by his might forever.
    His eyes watch the nations.
    Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. 

…

¹ Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
²     Sing to the glory of his name!
    Offer glory and praise!
³ Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!
    Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
⁴ All the earth will worship you,
    and will sing to you;
    they will…

Heavenly father give us grace to drink deeply of your pleasures. 

The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the …

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: rejoice! ⁵ Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸ Finally, brothers and…

Heavenly father, give us grace to respond to evil with good, particularly in our relationships with family and friends. 

¹ Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.  ² Joseph commanded his servants, to embalm his father; and they did so. 
⁴ Joseph [then] spoke to Pharaoh, ⁵ ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…

Heavenly Father, give us grace to be a blessing to each member of our families, however different they are from each other.

¹ Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

³ “Reuben, you are my firstborn, excelling in dignity, and power, [but] ⁴ you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed. (Gen 35) …

Heavenly Father, give us grace so that we may be a blessing to our family, and not live comparing ourselves with others. 

¹ After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 

¹⁴ Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the…

Heavenly father, give us grace to do what is right in our work, both paid and unpaid, (not sure if Joseph putting the whole of the land of Egypt in debt to Pharoah was a reason why the children of Israel ended up in slavery to the Egyptians) 

⁵ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, ⁶ “Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my…

Heavenly Father, give us grace to be guided by you in big decisions, be filled with your love in our personal relationships. 

¹ Israel travelled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 
² God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”  He said, “Here I am.”
³ He said, “I am God, the God of your father.…

Heavenly father, give us grace to be reconciled to others today. 

¹  Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!”
No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 
² He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 
³ Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to do what is right, whatever the personal cost to ourselves

¹ Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. ² Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. ³ As soon as the morning was…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be honest about the things which don’t make us look good
and give us grace to trust in you.

¹  The famine was severe in the land. ² When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

³ Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to face up to what we have done in the past and make amends for it as opportunity presents itself

¹  Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, so said to his sons, ²  “ Go to Egypt, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.” 
³ Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 
⁴ But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be prudent in times of plenty, so that we may be able to help ourselves and others in time of scarcity. 

¹ After two years, Pharaoh dreamed that he stood by the river. ² out of which came seven sleek and fat cattle ³ followed by seven ugly and thin cattle,  ⁴ which ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.  ⁵ In a second dream,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to understand dreams (like Joseph)
and give us grace to be a blessing to others when we are blessed (unlike the cupbearer)

⁹ The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph:  “In my dream, there was a vine ¹⁰ with three branches, on which were clusters of ripe grapes,  ¹¹ which I took and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
^12…

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. ²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me. ²¹ He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² He who has an ear, let him hear what the…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the love of Jesus today

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
³⁶Even as it is…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be conformed to the image of your Son today

²⁸We know that all things work together for good for those who love God,
for those who are called according to his purpose.
²⁹For…

Heavenly Father, send your spirit on us in our weakness, so that we may live in hope.

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
²³Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first…

Heavenly Father, Send your spirit on us to that we may live in hope and liberty

¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace, to be in Christ today, so that, by your Spirit, we put to death the deeds of the body

⁸Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the spirit of Jesus, and so be free of sin and death

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
^…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to serve you today.

²¹I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to face up to our failings today.

¹⁰The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and…

June 2 Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live by the spirit of your laws rather than the letter

^7:6But now we have been discharged from the law,
having died to that in which we were held;…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be joined to you today, producing your fruit

¹Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law),
that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
²…

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. ¹³ Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ¹⁴ And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live as your servants today, free from sin.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh,
for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness
and to wickedness upon wickedness,
even so now present your members as servants to righteousness…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace today to be obedient to you from the heart

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace?
May it never be!
¹⁶Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be instruments of righteousness today

^6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body,
that you should obey it in its lusts.
¹³…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be alive today to everything that is good, and dead to everything that is not

⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin.
⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be dead to sin today, so that we may walk in newness of life

(^5:20 where sin abounded, grace over abounded)

^6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that…

1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I thank my God every time I remember you. ⁴ In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy ⁵ because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, ^6…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace that we may over abound in grace and righteousness

¹⁷For if in the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one;
so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to walk in paths of righteousness today

¹²Therefore just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin;
so death passed to all people, because all sinned.
¹³…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live reconciled lives both in our relationship with You and in our relationship with others.

⁹Much more then, being now made righteous in his blood,
we will be saved from wrath through him.
¹⁰…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in love particularly when our circumstances are shaped by sins (both our own and those of others)

⁶For while we were yet weak, at the right time
Christ died on behalf of the wicked.
^7…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in hope and love, whatever our circumstances

And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
³Not only this, but we also rejoice in…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live at peace which arises from faithfulness

¹Being therefore made righteous out of faithfulness,
we have peace towards God
through our Lord Jesus Christ;
^…

Give us grace to trust you in difficult circumstances with hope, particular in valleys of deep shadows.

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”
This is in the presence of him whom he believed:
God, who gives life to the dead,
and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
¹⁸Besides hope, Abraham in hope trusted,
to the end that he might become a father of…

Give us grace to affirm the faithfulness of others today, being thankful that Abraham’s family of faith is wide.

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision,
but who also walk in the steps of the faith in uncircumsion of our father Abraham
¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring
that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law,
but through the righteousness of…

Give us grace to be true to our baptism, that we may be immersed in you and trust in you today (just as the descendants of Abraham should be true to their circumcision and trust in you today)

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also?
For we are saying that faith was accounted to Abraham towards righteousness.
¹⁰In what way then was it accounted?
When he was in circumcision…

Give us grace to be forgiven and forgiving people today,
being willing not to hold past sins against others
(and give us grace to know when and how to confront ongoing sins in ourselves and others)

⁶Even as David speaks the blessedness of the man
to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works,
⁷“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
 whose sins are covered…

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…