Daily Bible Verses

¹     Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
²     Before the mountains were born,
    before you had formed the earth and the world,
    even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to stop us being foolish, particularly around pleasure and beauty

⁶ But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod. 
⁷ Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. 
⁸ She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
⁹ The…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak truthfully and act with justice

¹¹ We all roar like bears
    and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
    for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹² For our sins testify against us;
    and our transgressions are with us,
¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh,
  …

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 discern if and when we need to speak about truth and justice 

¹ At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, 
² and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.” 
³ For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s…

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a]whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work…

⁴⁶ How long, Yahweh?
    Will you hide yourself forever?
    Will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is,
    for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
⁴⁸ What man is he who shall live and not see death,
    who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
^…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to follow the way of peace and turn away from evil, particularly in our thoughts. 

⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
    Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They don’t know the way of peace;
    and there is no justice in their ways.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be channels of love and peace to others

¹⁴ Greet one another with a kiss of love.
Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to discover new things about the kingdom of God

⁵¹ Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”

They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

⁵² He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

1 Clap your hands, all you nations;
    shout to God with cries of joy.

2 For the Lord Most High is awesome,
    the great King over all the earth.
3 He subdued nations under us,
    peoples under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us,
    the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.[…

²⁹ I will also make his offspring endure forever,
    and his throne as the days of heaven.
³⁰ If his children forsake my law,
    and don’t walk in my ordinances;
³¹ if they break my statutes,
    and don’t keep my commandments;
³² then I will punish their sin with the rod,
    and their iniquity with stripes.
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be of use in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

⁴⁷ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind, 
⁴⁸ which, when it was filled, fishermen drew up on the beach.
They sat down and gathered the good [useful] into containers, but the bad they threw away. 
⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak the truth, and seek after it.

¹ Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
    nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you and your God,
    and your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood,…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to stand in the grace you give us

¹² Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying
that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. 
¹³ She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek for what is finest and best today and deal with everything else appropriately.

⁴⁵ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, 
⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Heavenly Father, pour out your grace and loving kindness on us today.

²⁵ I will set his hand also on the sea,
    and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶ He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
    my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
²⁷ I will also appoint him my firstborn,
    the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ I will keep…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven today

⁴⁴ “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid.
In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Heavenly Father
give us grace this weekend to delight in you as we take our rest

¹³ “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
    from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
and call the Sabbath a delight,
    and the holy of Yahweh honourable;
    and honour it,
    not doing your own ways,
    nor finding your own pleasure,
 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be perfected, established, strengthened and settled in you. 

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace,
who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus,
after you have suffered a little while,
perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 

¹¹ To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to do what is right

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

³⁷ He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, ³⁸ the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one…

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the…

¹⁹ Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
    and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
    I have exalted a young man from the people.
²⁰ I have found David, my servant.
    I have anointed him with my holy oil,
²¹ with whom my hand shall be established.
    My arm will also strengthen him.
²² No enemy will tax…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be attentive to the hidden things of the Kingdom of Heaven

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, 
³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

“I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to pour out our souls to those in need

¹⁰ if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
    and satisfy the afflicted soul,
¹¹ Yahweh will guide you continually,
    satisfy your soul in dry places,
    and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
    and like a spring of water
  …