Daily Bible Verses

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. 

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.…