Daily Bible Verses

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…