Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you today, rejecting all other useless ways of life

¹⁷ If you call on him as Father,
who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work,
pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, 
¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
 

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose faith and hope are in you, particularly when faced with anything that is at all deadly

¹⁸ [live] knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, 
²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to your truth in love today.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls
in your obedience to the truth
through the Spirit
in sincere brotherly affection,
love one another from the heart fervently, 
²³ having been born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
through the word of God,
which lives and remains forever. 
²⁴ For, “All flesh is like grass,
    and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass…

¹ Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, ² as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, ³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: ⁴ coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. ⁵ You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ^…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and evil speaking

¹ Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 
² as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, 
³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 

2 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be in Christ today, serving you and others. 

⁴ coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 
⁵ You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Because it is contained in Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious:
    He who believes in him will not…

7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,“The stone the builders rejecte has become the cornerstone,” 8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble    and a rock that makes them fall.”They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to obedient to your commands and promptings today

⁷ For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient,

“The stone which the builders rejected
    has become the chief cornerstone,”

⁸ and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offence.”

For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 

Heavenly father
give us grace for us to live in you, and for you to live in us, so that we communicate your goodness in what we do and say today 

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for God’s own possession,
that you may proclaim the excellence of him
who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 
¹⁰ In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people,
who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.