Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be deceived 

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. 
This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today not go along with the crowd.

²⁰ Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 
²¹ But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”
They said, “Barabbas!”
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be involved with anything which is destructive. 

28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
    and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pay attention to dreams, both our own and other people’s 

¹⁹ While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, 
“Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice hospitality

18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be obedient to the commandment to love

(5 … commandment … that we love one another. )
6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to choose the ways of Christ rather than that of a zealot

¹⁵ Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired. 
¹⁶ They had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas. 
¹⁷ When…

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to celebrate what we have been given and believe in you 

24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
    They didn’t believe his word,
25 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware of and respond to the needs of others

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be both truthful and loving. 

4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, 
even as we have been commanded by the Father. 

…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid personal involvement in buying items which would mean that we have blood on our hands 

⁶ The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, 
“It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.” 
^7…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to stand up for those who in a bad place

23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
    had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
    …

Heavenly Father
Pour down your grace, mercy, peace, truth and love on us today 

3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to worship anything of our own making

19 They made a calf in Horeb,
    and worshipped a molten image.
20 Thus they exchanged their glory
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to hear your voice, particularly when we have done wrong, so that we know that we are forgiven.

³ Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, 
and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 
^4…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into practice doing the good things that we notice others doing and not doing the wrong things that we notice others doing. 

13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. 
He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in truth

1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, 
2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to hear your voice, particularly when we are convinced that we are doing right, and we may be doing the opposite

¹ Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid envy

16 They envied Moses also in the camp,
    and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to our mistakes and mourn accordingly. 

73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
74 Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to refrain from overcoming evil with evil

11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. 
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 
12 He looked this way and that way, and…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek after truth, to know you and understand you

20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, 
that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth, whatever the consequences

69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
…

12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.’

13 They soon forgot his works.
    They didn’t wait for his counsel,
14     …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to withstand ridicule directed at ourselves, but also to share the pain of others when they are ridiculed.

67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pass responsibility to others at the appropriate time. 

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 
She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today always to keep ourselves in you, and away from the evil one.  

18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, 
but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him. 
19 We know that we are of God,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to choose our words well, particularly in pressure situations. 

63 But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

64 Jesus said to him, …

3 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the…

7 Our fathers were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
    that he might make his mighty power known.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to know when to stay silent. 

But at last two false witnesses came forward 61 and said, 
“This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
62 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be creative in the way in which we face difficult situations.

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, 
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid turning away from you (to any idol) as our life is only found in you. 

16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, 
he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. 
There is a sin…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth particularly when we are in conflict with others

59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two…

6 We have sinned with our fathers.
    We have committed iniquity.
    We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers didn’t understand your…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have the courage to see things through to the end, whatever the consequences

57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, 
where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. 
58 But Peter followed…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow ourselves to be motivated by compassion. 

5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. 
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. 
She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek your will with all our hearts and minds, and in all our prayers

14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, 
that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 
15 And if we know that he listens to us,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow courage rather than fear motivate us today 

56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples left him and fled.

God is our refuge and strength,
    a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
    though the mountains are shaken into…

2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
    or fully declare all his praise?
3 Blessed are those who keep justice.
    Blessed is…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid the temptation of living in secret.

55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, 
“Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? 
I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into your hand those things which are beyond our ability to  sort out

3 When she could no longer hide him, 
she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. 
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to life in all its eternal fulness 

13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God,
that you may know that you have eternal life, 
and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

 …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live by the power of love, not the sword

51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword…

Praise Yahweh!
    Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be truly loving to those closest to us. 

48 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.” 
49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know when is the time to wait and not take drastic action 

1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 
2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to find life in Christ today 

10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. 
He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
11 The…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to turn away from violence 

47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, 
and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 
 

42 For he remembered his holy word,
    and Abraham, his servant.
43 He brought his people out with joy,
    his…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be awake and alert and prayerful

43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 
44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words. 
45 Then he came to his…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to fear you and have the courage to do what is right

15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 
16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be immersed in Christ, remembering both the water of baptism and the blood of the cross

6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; 
not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. 
It is the Spirit who testifies,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do your will

42 Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

“Tell the daughter of Zion,
    behold, your King comes to you,
    humble, and riding on a donkey,
    on a colt, the…

39 He spread a cloud for a covering,
    fire to give light in the night.
40 They asked, and he brought quails,
    and satisfied…

Heavenly father
give us grace in our spirits to do your will today, particularly when our bodies are weak. 

40 He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to find hope when we are afflicted. 

12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. 
They started to dread the children of Israel. 
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to believe in (the ways of) Jesus, particularly when faced with worldly difficulties 

4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. 
This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. 
5 Who is he who overcomes the…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to desire to do your will

39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, 
“My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
    nor stand on the path of sinners,
    nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
…

36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
    the first fruits of all their manhood.
37 He brought them out with silver and gold.
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to support those who are sorrowful

36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, 
“Sit here, while I go there and pray.” 
37 He took…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be afraid (particularly if what we are afraid of could be a figment of our immagination)

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 
9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love you and obey your command to love others

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, 
when we love God and keep his commandments. 
3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be honest about our weaknesses

33 But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
34 Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you…

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.

23 Israel also came into Egypt.
    Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
24 He increased his people greatly,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern your living presence in our home turf (Galilee)

30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be fruitful whatever our circumstances (Egypt), particularly in the fruit of the spirit of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self Control

1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love you and trust Jesus to be our saviour (Christ) 

1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. 
Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is…