Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to give our allegiance to you rather than to any earthly power, whatever the consequences

¹² At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
¹³ When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out
and sat down…

Heavenly father
give us grace to use power to do good (as Pilate wanted to do) rather than to do evil (as the chief priests and officers did)

⁴ Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
⁵ Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
⁶ When therefore…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek after truth today

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
³⁸ Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this, he…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek your kingdom which is not of this world

²⁸ They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. 
²⁹ Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
³⁰ They answered him, “If this man weren’t an…

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid the temptations of hearing without understand, of abusing of power, of denying what we know to be true

¹⁹ The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 
²⁰ Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret. 
^21 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid violence and deceit today, however much we are provoked 

¹⁰ Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it,
struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. 
¹¹ Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
¹² So…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be truthful and kind, particularly in the face of hatred and violence 

¹ When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron,
where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. 
² Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 
³ Judas then, having taken a detachment of…

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore put on…

[The Northern Kingdom Israel abandoned God and went into exile]

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
    and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was angry,
    and greatly abhorred Israel,
⁶⁰ so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
    the tent which he placed among men,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving today

² Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
³ Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
⁴ Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 
⁵ …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to abide in you today in peace

⁸ Your watchmen lift up their voice.
    Together they sing;
    for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.  [i.e. our heavenly father living in his people]
⁹ Break out into joy!
    Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; [parts of our lives from which we…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and evil speaking

¹ Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 
² as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, 
³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 

Heavenly father
give us grace to be a blessing to others today, particularly those who need our help.  

¹ He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city. 
² Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralysed, lying on a bed.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
 

Yahweh, you have searched me,
    and you know me.
² You know my sitting down and my rising up.
    You perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You search out my path and my lying down,
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue,
    but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
⁵ You hem…

[Book of Joshua]

⁵⁴ He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
    to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.  
⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them,
    allotted them for an inheritance by line,             
    and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

[Books of 1 and 2 Kings, particularly…

Heavenly father give us grace to repent of our “pig-farmer” self interest and open our lives to you so that we may be blessing to others, particularly those who are damaged.  

²⁸ When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, 
two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. 
²⁹ Behold, they cried out,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to to speak words of peace and of good news today

 ⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
    who publishes peace,
    who brings good news,
    who proclaims salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to your truth in love today.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls
in your obedience to the truth
through the Spirit
in sincere brotherly affection,
love one another from the heart fervently, 
²³ having been born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
through the word of God,
which lives and remains forever. 
²⁴ For, “All…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be full of faith (rather than full of fear) in whatever storms we face today. 

²³ When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 
²⁴ Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves;
but he was asleep. 
²⁵ The disciples came to him and woke him up,
saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
^…

⁶ Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷ Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
    and grieved him in the desert!
⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God,
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They didn’t remember his hand,
    nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt: ^44…

Heavenly father
give us grace to follow your Son, Jesus today, particularly in the face of tragedy.  

²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to know you and your justice today and have no part in oppression.

¹Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
    Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
    for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. [and oppress you]
² Shake yourself from the dust!
    Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose faith and hope are in you, particularly when faced with anything that is at all deadly

¹⁸ [live] knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, 
²⁰ who was foreknown indeed…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose who live in the kingdom of heaven 

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
¹⁹ A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”…