Daily Bible Verses

¹ Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
    Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
² Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
    Let’s extol him with songs!
³ For Yahweh is a great God,
    a great King above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
    The heights of the mountains are also his…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to forgive others from our hearts

²⁸ “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, 
and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
²⁹ “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ 
³⁰ He would not, but went and cast him into…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to remember your love and power shown when you brought your people out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and know that the same spirit is with us today. 

¹¹ “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
    Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to open our hearts and minds to life in all its fullness, and communicate this to others. 

1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,
that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life 
² (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you
the life, the eternal life…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to joyfully receive your mercy 

²³ Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 
²⁴ When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 
²⁵ But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.…

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. 
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
    which brings about mischief by statute?
²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
    and condemn the innocent blood.
²² But Yahweh has been my high tower,
    my God, the rock of my refuge.
²³ He has brought on them their…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be forgiving, particularly to those who show no sign of real repentance. 

²¹ Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
²² Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak in word and deed about your love

⁷ I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
    and the praises of Yahweh,
    according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
    which he has given to them according to his mercies,
    and according to the multitude…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. 
¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to release others, in the name of Jesus, from all that we hold against them. 

¹⁸ Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven,
and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. 
¹⁹ Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask,
it will be done for them by my…

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
    Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless Yahweh had been my help,
    my soul would have soon lived in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
    Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to deal appropriately with those who hurt us.  

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you,
go, show him his fault between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. 
¹⁶ But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you,
that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have hope that you will save particularly when judgement falls on unrighteousness.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
   Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength?
   “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
² Why is your clothing red, and your garments…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient, particularly if we find life inexplicable.  

¹⁵ Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also,
according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, 
¹⁶ as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things.
In those, there are some things that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to care for those who have lost their way

¹² “What do you think?
If a man has one hundred sheep,
and one of them goes astray,
doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine,
go to the mountains,
and seek that which has gone astray? 
¹³ If he finds it, most certainly I tell you,
he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 
^14…

22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! 25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? 26 Since you cannot…

¹⁴ For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
    neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ For judgement will return to righteousness.
    All the upright in heart shall follow it.
 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to turn away from despising those who don’t have much going for them. 

⁷ “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling!
For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes! 
⁸ If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as Holy People who have been saved from the power of sin and death

¹⁰ Go through, go through the gates!
    Prepare the way of the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
    Gather out the stones!
    Lift up a banner for the peoples.
¹¹ Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
    “Say…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in peace

¹³ But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth,
in which righteousness dwells.
¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things,
be diligent to be found in peace,
without defect and blameless in his sight. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be open to receive from others, particularly those who do not have much to give

⁵ Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, 
⁶ but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble,
it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

¹¹ Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
    that they are futile.
¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
    and teach out of your law,
¹³ that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
    until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to repent of our pride and become as little children
 

¹ In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
² Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them 
³ and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to work for economic and social justice

⁸ Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
    and by the arm of his strength,
“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,
    and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured,
⁹ but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.
  …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live holy and godly lives

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat,
and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 
¹¹ Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this,
what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and…

Heavenly father
give us grace today celebrate the gift of grace. 

²⁴ When they had come to Capernaum,
those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter,  [Temple Tax of 2 drachma]]
and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”   
²⁵ He said, “Yes.”
When he came into the house,
Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth receive…

[Heavenly Father, give us grace today to hear, to see and to be wise.]

⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people;
    you fools, when will you be wise?
⁹ He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
    He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
    He who teaches…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to find hope, particularly in the face of suffering and evil

²² While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 
“The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, 
²³ and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.”
They were exceedingly sorry.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today tp call out to you in good times and in bad times

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
    They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
⁷     and give him no rest, until he establishes,
    and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient and forgiving, just as you are. 

⁹ The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness;
but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to rebuke evil 

¹⁸ Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
²⁰ He said to them, “Because of your unbelief.
For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain,
‘…

[Thanking God that we are not responsible for vengeance, so that we can be spared from being eaten up with anger towards others]

¹ Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
    you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
² Rise up, you judge of the earth.
    Pay back the proud what they deserve.
³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to come to you with our problems, particularly when we have failed at them in the past. 

¹⁴ When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, 
¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. 
¹⁶ So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and your righteousness

¹  For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
    and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
    and her salvation like a burning lamp.
² The nations will see your righteousness,
   …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to have an eternal perspective

⁸ But don’t forget this one thing, beloved,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be afraid of suffering (either our own or other people’s)

¹⁰ His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
¹¹ Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things; 
¹² but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognise him, but did to him whatever they wanted to.
Even so the…

⁶ Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

¹ Yahweh reigns!
    He is clothed with majesty!
    Yahweh is armed with strength.
The world also is established.
    It can’t be moved.
² Your throne is established from long ago.
    You are from everlasting.
³ The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
    the floods have lifted up their voice.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to fear nothing, including death

⁶ When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. 
⁷ Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.” 
⁸ Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
⁹ As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them,
saying, “Don’t…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be righteous in all that we do and say, so that our lives may praise you

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
    My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
    He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
    as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to live today as those who remember that all ungodliness will perish, when Jesus returns. 

¹ This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you;
and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you 
² that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets
and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 
^3 …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see you, hear you and follow you. 

¹ After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. 
² He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. 
³ Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
^4…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

4 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 
² that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 
³ For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles,…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

“This is the covenant that I will make with them:
    ‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
‘I will put my laws on their heart,
    I will also write them on their mind;’”

then he says,
¹⁷ “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

²³ For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. ²⁴ When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.” ²⁵ In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹ Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, ² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 
²² For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 
²³ but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 
²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹¹ But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹² nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if…

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
    He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
    They will flourish in our God’s courts.
¹⁴ They will still produce fruit in old age.
    They will be full of sap and green,
¹⁵     to show that Yahweh is…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live in the kingdom and not taste those things that not of the kingdom. 

²⁷ For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels,
and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. 
²⁸ Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death
until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to find joy in living faithfully in covenant relationship with you, doing what is Just. 

⁷ Instead of your shame you will have double.
    Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
    Everlasting joy will be to them.
⁸ “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know the way of righteousness and stay in it. 

²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 
²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns to his own vomit again,”and
“the sow that has washed to wallowing in…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow you. 

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, 
“If anyone desires to come after me,
let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 
²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. 
²⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains…

⁹ For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
    for, behold, your enemies shall perish.
    All the evildoers will be scattered.
¹⁰ But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
    I am anointed with fresh oil.
¹¹ My eye has also seen my enemies.
    My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first the kingdom of God, whatever the consequences.

²¹ From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem
and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed,
and the third day be raised up.
²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying,
“Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to fulfil our calling to be your servants. 

⁴ They will rebuild the old ruins.
    They will raise up the former devastated places.
They will repair the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for many generations.
⁵ Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
    Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
^6…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be entangled in, or overcome by, anything which defiles us. 

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled in it and overcome,
the last state has become worse for them than the first. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be forgiven and forgiving

¹⁸ I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly,
and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 
¹⁹ I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven,
and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven;
and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” …

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

⁴ For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
    I will triumph in the works of your hands.
⁵ How great are your works, Yahweh!
    Your thoughts are very deep.
⁶ A senseless man doesn’t know,
    neither does a fool understand this:
⁷ though the wicked spring up as the grass,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be open to you revealing truths  to us. 

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered,
“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
¹⁷ Jesus answered him, 
“Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah,
for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,
but my Father who is in heaven. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to those who mourn and those who have a spirit of heaviness

^[The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me…]   
² to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favour
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
    to comfort all who mourn,
³ to provide for those who…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid both empty words and also words that cause others to be burdened

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm;
for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 
¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness,
they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness,
those who are indeed escaping from those who live in…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to know Jesus as your Son 

¹³ Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, 
“Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
¹⁴ They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
¹⁵ He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are…

¹ It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh,
    to sing praises to your name, Most High,
² to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,
    and your faithfulness every night,
³ with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
    and with the melody of the lyre.
 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be led into temptation - anything which pulls us away from what is the bread of life

⁵ The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. 
⁶ Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
⁷ They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”
⁸ Jesus…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving, truthful, self controlled, gentle, loving what is good, faithful and humble, loving you as our God, allowing your power to work in us.

² Men will be .unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, 
⁴ traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 
⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to teach your covenant to the next generations
give us grace to sacrifice the needs of the flesh so that our spirits may become strong.
give us grace to allow ourselves to carry the painful marks of being in covenant relationship with you, at a very personal level.

⁹ God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace, like Jesus, to speak what is true openly, because of the truth we find in you
give us grace, like many in the crowd, to believe in your Son, Jesus.

²⁵ Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶ Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?…

Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for your kingdom to come, for your will be done. 

¹ A message for the land of Ethiopia; ² that sends ambassadors Egypt (to join forces against Assyria)” :
³ All you inhabitants of the world, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
^4…

Heavenly father
give us grace to not take advantage of the vulnerabilities of others
give us grace to always search after the truth in our learning
protect us from our minds becoming corrupted.

⁶ For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ⁷ always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be honest about the hopes and dreams we believe you have given us.
give us grace to hold on to the hopes and dreams you have given us even when it seems laughable to do so.

¹⁵ God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, her name shall be Princess (Sarah). 
¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her.
She will be a mother of…

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Heavenly father
give us grace to get rid of unrealistic expectations of Jesus
give us grace instead to believe in Jesus, so that rivers of living water flow from within us.

³³ Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 
³⁴ You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

³⁵ The…