Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace today to find hope, particularly in the face of suffering and evil

²² While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 
“The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, 
²³ and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.”
They were exceedingly sorry.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today tp call out to you in good times and in bad times

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
    They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
⁷     and give him no rest, until he establishes,
    and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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 rebuke evil 

¹⁸ Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
²⁰ He said to them, “Because of your unbelief.
For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain,
‘…

[Thanking God that we are not responsible for vengeance, so that we can be spared from being eaten up with anger towards others]

¹ Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
    you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
² Rise up, you judge of the earth.
    Pay back the proud what they deserve.
³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to come to you with our problems, particularly when we have failed at them in the past. 

¹⁴ When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, 
¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water. 
¹⁶ So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and your righteousness

¹  For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
    and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
    and her salvation like a burning lamp.
² The nations will see your righteousness,
   …

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 not be afraid of suffering (either our own or other people’s)

¹⁰ His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
¹¹ Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things; 
¹² but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognise him, but did to him whatever they wanted to.
Even so the…

⁶ Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

¹ Yahweh reigns!
    He is clothed with majesty!
    Yahweh is armed with strength.
The world also is established.
    It can’t be moved.
² Your throne is established from long ago.
    You are from everlasting.
³ The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
    the floods have lifted up their voice.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to fear nothing, including death

⁶ When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. 
⁷ Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.” 
⁸ Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
⁹ As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them,
saying, “Don’t…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be righteous in all that we do and say, so that our lives may praise you

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
    My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
    He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
    as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride…

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 …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see you, hear you and follow you. 

¹ After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. 
² He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light. 
³ Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
^4…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

4 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 
² that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 
³ For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles,…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

“This is the covenant that I will make with them:
    ‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
‘I will put my laws on their heart,
    I will also write them on their mind;’”

then he says,
¹⁷ “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

²³ For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. ²⁴ When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.” ²⁵ In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹ Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, ² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 
²² For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 
²³ but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 
²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and…

Heavenly father, give us grace today to walk with Jesus the way of the cross. 

¹¹ But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹² nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if…

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
    He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
    They will flourish in our God’s courts.
¹⁴ They will still produce fruit in old age.
    They will be full of sap and green,
¹⁵     to show that Yahweh is…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live in the kingdom and not taste those things that not of the kingdom. 

²⁷ For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels,
and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds. 
²⁸ Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death
until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to find joy in living faithfully in covenant relationship with you, doing what is Just. 

⁷ Instead of your shame you will have double.
    Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
    Everlasting joy will be to them.
⁸ “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
…

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…