Daily Bible Verses by Book

33 He told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flour until it worked all through the dough.’

Richard Rohr describes why role models and personal examples often inspire change more effectively than right ideas and beliefs:  

Correct ideas and church mandates cannot cause the kind of change that the soul needs. The soul needs living models to grow, exemplars with the expansive energies of love. People…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be attentive to the hidden things of the Kingdom of Heaven

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, 
³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

“I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Jesus said, “I will speak to you in parables and reveal to you things hidden since the foundation of the world.” —Matthew 13:35, quoting Psalm 78:2  

Richard Rohr describes how Jesus uses parables to challenge our ways of thinking: 

A parable is a unique form of literature that’s always trying to subvert business as usual, much like a Zen koan or a Confucian riddle, which both use paradox to undo our reliance on what we think is logic. Yet we typically do not let parables do that for us. Our dominant consciousness is so in control that…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to do what is right

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

³⁷ He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, ³⁸ the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven today

⁴⁴ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid.
In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek for what is finest and best today and deal with everything else appropriately.

⁴⁵ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, 
⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be of use in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

⁴⁷ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, 
⁴⁸ which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach.
They sat down and gathered the good [useful] into containers, but the bad they threw away. 
⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous, 
⁵⁰ and will cast…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to discover new things about the kingdom of God

⁵¹ Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”

They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

⁵² He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to listen to wisdom whoever is speaking. 

⁵³ When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there. 
⁵⁴ Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said,
“Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 
⁵⁵ Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? 
⁵⁶ Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern if and when we need to speak about truth and justice 

¹ At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, 
² and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.” 
³ For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. 
⁴ For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her…