Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace to speak our deepest desires to you today

²⁴ It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
    and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know that we are loved

¹ See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and ask for kingdom things 

²⁰ When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. ‘How did the fig-tree wither so quickly?’ they asked.

²¹ Jesus replied, ‘Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig-tree, but also you can say to this mountain, “Go, throw yourself into the sea,” and it will be done. ²² …

In the beginning

¹ Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
²     Serve Yahweh with gladness.
    Come before his presence with singing.
 

Heavenly father
give us grace to bear fruit for the benefit of others today

¹⁸ Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ Seeing a fig-tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice righteousness today

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 
²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to talk about the hope we have, particularly when we sense that we are childlike in our understanding.  

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.
¹⁶ ‘Do you…

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel was among those who call on his name.
    They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
    They kept his testimonies,
    the statute that he gave them.
⁸ You answered them, Yahweh our God.
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pray constantly

¹² Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves. ¹³ ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘“My house will be called a house of prayer,” but you are making it “a den of robbers.”’

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the anointing of your spirit to remain in us today, and to learn from you

²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. 
²⁷ As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to follow in the steps of Jesus, doing everything in the name of the Lord

⁹ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’
¹¹ The…

¹⁹ Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, ²¹ and having a great priest over God’s house, ²² let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, ^23…

⁴ The King’s strength also loves justice.
    You establish equity.
    You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵ Exalt Yahweh our God.
    Worship at his footstool.
    He is Holy!

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be attentive to what you ask us to do and to do it. 

⁶ The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 
⁷ They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. 
⁸ A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the hope of a new heaven and a new earth

¹⁷ “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
    and the former things will not be remembered,
    nor come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
    for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
    …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in you

²⁴ Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning.
If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. 
²⁵ This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to use any power that we have with gentleness

⁴ This took place to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet:
⁵ ‘Say to Daughter Zion, “See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”’

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
    the righteous run to it and are safe.

¹ Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
    He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
    Let the earth be moved.
² Yahweh is great in Zion.
    He is high above all the peoples.
³ Let them praise your great and awesome name.
    He is Holy!

Heavenly father
give us grace today to bring to you the resources we have for your use. 

¹ As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ² saying to them, 
‘Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her.
Untie them and bring them to me. 
³ If anyone says anything to you, say…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to all, including ourselves

^{[There will be an end to unrighteousness]
15} You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

^{[But righteousness is altogether different]]}
He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶     so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be truthful

²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. 
²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth,
but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 
²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 
²³ Whoever…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be moved with compassion to others

³² Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
³³ They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
³⁴ Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
    Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
    I will strengthen you.
    Yes, I will help you.
    Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

⁴ Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth!
    Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
⁵ Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp,
    with the harp and the voice of melody.
⁶ With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
    make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
⁷ Let the sea roar with its fullness;
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be honest before you about our needs

²⁹ As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 
³⁰ Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out,
“Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!” 
³¹ The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to serve you and other people

¹³ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,“Behold, my servants will eat,
    but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
    but you will be disappointed;
¹⁴ Behold, my…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be pro-Christ and to belong with those who are pro-Christ

¹⁸ Little children, these are the end times,
and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen.
By this we know that it is the final hour. 
¹⁹ They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us;
for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us.
But they left, that they might…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to make sure that we use power to serve rather than lord is over others. 

²⁴ When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
²⁵ But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ²⁶ It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be…

⁹ He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹ Sing to Yahweh a new song,
    for he has done marvellous things!
    His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
² Yahweh has made known his salvation.
    He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to cope with the difficulties that we encounter as a result of seeing first your Kingdom

(the mother of the sons of Zebedee asked Jesus for her sons to be his right/left hand men in his Kingdom) 
²² But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to listen to you, particularly when we are tempted to do things which are not good.

¹¹ “But you who forsake Yahweh,
    who forget my holy mountain,
    who prepare a table for Fortune,
    and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
¹² I will destin you to the sword,
    and you will all bow down to the slaughter;…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to enjoy things in the world, but ensure that we seek first the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. 
¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. 
¹⁷ The world is passing away with…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first the kingdom of God (rather than power and status) 

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. 
²¹ He said to her, “What do you want?”
She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
 

    but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
    They will mount up with wings like eagles.
    They will run, and not be weary.
    They will walk, and not faint.

⁷ Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
    who boast in their idols.
    Worship him, all you gods
⁸ Zion heard and was glad.
    The daughters of Judah rejoiced
    because of your judgements, Yahweh.
⁹ For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
    You are exalted far above all gods.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to difficulties in life, in the same way that Jesus did. 

¹⁷ As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, 
¹⁸ “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, 
¹⁹ and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to not give up on people who have strayed from the right path, just as you don’t give up on people. 

⁸ Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹ I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be strong because we know you, and know that our sins are forgiven

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, little children, because you know the…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid envy and embrace generosity 

⁸ “When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ 
⁹ “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. 
¹⁰ When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise…

⁷ Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward…

¹ Yahweh reigns!
    Let the earth rejoice!
    Let the multitude of islands be glad!
² Clouds and darkness are around him.
    Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³ A fire goes before him,
    and burns up his adversaries on every side.
⁴ His lightning lights up…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to work in your vineyard, trusting you to give us what we need. 

¹ “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household,
who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. 
² When he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 
³ He went out about the third hour, and saw others…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to think as you think, and to be humble

¹ “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
    I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
    I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
² I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
    who walk in a way that is not good, after their own…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware within ourselves of hate, and what leads to hate, and to turn away from it. 

⁷ Brothers, I write no new commandment to you,
but an old commandment which you had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 
⁸ Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you;
because the darkness is passing away and the true…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see the life of kingdom of heaven for what it is and leave everything else. 

²⁷ Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
²⁸ Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me,
in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory,
you also will sit on twelve thrones,…

¹³ Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.”
    The world is also established.
    It can’t be moved.
    He will judge the peoples with equity.
¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
    Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
¹²     Let the field and all that is in it exult!…

Heavenly father
give us grace today bring to you any situation in which is seems impossible to live as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

²³ Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. 
²⁴ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
²⁵ When the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who have been made in your image. 

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
    We are the clay and you our potter.
    We all are the work of your hand.
⁹ Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
    Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
    we are all your people.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live and walk just as Jesus did, following your commandments. 

³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 
⁴ One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. 
⁵ But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: 
^6…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to love others in our thinking, in our words and in our actions.  

¹⁷ Jesus said to him, “If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
¹⁸ He said to him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ¹⁹ ‘Honour your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall…

5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 …

⁷ Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations,
    ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
⁸ Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
    Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
⁹ Worship Yahweh in holy array.
    Tremble before him, all the earth.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to focus on goodness, and so to focus on you

¹⁶ Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
¹⁷ He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call on your name, to stir ourselves up and take hold of you

⁵ Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
    We have been in sin for a long time.
    Shall we be saved?
⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
    and…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek always what is good and right. 

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counsellor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. ² And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today learn from and care for children today

¹³ Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. 
¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me;
for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” 
¹⁵ He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

¹ Sing to Yahweh a new song!
    Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
² Sing to Yahweh!
    Bless his name!
    Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
³ Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous works among all the peoples.
⁴ For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised!
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and trust you for what that looks like in practice. 

¹⁰ His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
¹¹ But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. 
¹² For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb,  […

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to joyfully do what is right, and to remember you in all our ways, so that your name may be known to others. 

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens,
    that you would come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence.
² As when fire kindles the brushwood,
    and the fire causes the water to boil;
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to discern what sins we should confess and be cleansed from today

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
¹⁰ If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Heavenly father
give us grace today not to have a hard heart.

⁷ They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”
⁸ He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 
⁹ I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries…

1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus…

⁶ Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.
    Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
⁷     for he is our God.
We are the people of his pasture,
    and the sheep in his care.
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
⁸     Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
    as in the day of Massah…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern what tears apart that which is joined together by God, and not do it. 

³ Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
⁴ He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
⁵ and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call out to you for help when we need help

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
    The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
[We need your care, Lord, and it seems to be lacking]

¹⁶ For you are our Father,
    though…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live today in fellowship with you and our neighbours

Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 
⁴ And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
⁵ This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 
⁶ If we say that we have fellowship…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be compassionate today to those who are not well. 

¹ When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. 
² Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God.
    I will be exalted among the nations.
    I will be exalted in the earth.”
¹¹ Yahweh of Armies is with us.
    The God of Jacob is our refuge.