Daily Bible Verses

But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Cor 12:9) 

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But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.  (2 Corinthians 12:9)

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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, and it will be with us forever: 

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 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. 

5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a…

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. 
This is the commandment, even as you heard from the…

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. 
8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today be careful in our thinking and lead us not into the temptation of being led astray from the teaching of Christ

9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. 
He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to rejoice in the company of others

12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, 
but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. 
13 The children of…

¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: ‘Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Give ear, Lord…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to serve others, trusting in the righteousness of Jesus

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in grace and peace

² Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear your precious call to godly living

³ seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, 
⁴ by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises;
that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be self controlled, persevering in  brotherly affection and love

⁵ Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence,
in your faith supply moral excellence;
and in moral excellence, knowledge; 
⁶ and in knowledge, self-control;
and in self-control perseverance;
and in perseverance godliness; 
⁷ and in godliness brotherly affection;
and in brotherly affection, love. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today so that faith, self control and love abound in us 

⁸ For if these things are yours and abound,
[namely faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly affection and love.]
they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remember what is most important, and to encourage others to do the same. 

¹² Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. 
¹³ I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, 
¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 
¹⁵ Yes, I will…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live as your children,  bringing you pleasure

¹⁷ For he received from God the Father honour and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory,
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
¹⁸ We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to take heed to the words of scripture

¹⁹ We have the more sure word of prophecy;
and you do well that you heed it,
as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns,
and the morning star arises in your hearts: 
²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. 
²¹ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man:
but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be deceived, but walking in the truth and in obedience to our Master

¹ But false prophets also arose among the people,
as false teachers will also be among you,
who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,
denying even the Master who bought them,
bringing on themselves swift destruction. 
² Many will follow their immoral ways,
and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 
³ In covetousness they…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be distressed by what is wicked so that we may not be led into temptation

⁴ For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, 
and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgement; 
⁵ and didn’t spare the ancient world,
       but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness,
when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 
⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to look for what is good in those in authority

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority.
Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear your voice calling us back to you whenever we speak evil in matters about which we are ignorant

¹¹ whereas angels, though greater in might and power,
don’t bring a railing judgement against them before the Lord. 
¹² But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed,
speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, 
¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness;…

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 error; 
¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are…

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 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 the mire.”

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 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts …

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 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 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 godliness, 
¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the…

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 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 twist,
as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 

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, mercy and peace today and always

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ² to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with a pure conscience.
give grace today to those whose sincere faith nurtured us in the faith.

³ I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; ^5 …

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you…. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.   2 Timothy 1:5–7 

Rev. Yvette Flunder encourages us to use our own gifts in the service of others:  

Paul is talking to Timothy about the gift of God placed in Timothy by God. Apparently some…

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. ⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus…

Heavenly father
stir up in us your gifts of power, love and self control.

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to know your Son, the bringer of life and immortality

⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, ¹⁰ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful and loving today through your Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁵ This you know, that all who are…

Heavenly father
give us the strength that we need to face today’s hardships, strength which flows from the grace that is in Christ Jesus

¹ You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. ³ …