Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace to place today and tomorrow in your hands with joy, trusting in your power shown in the past. 

[the power of Yahweh existed before history and is attested to in mythical stories of monsters such as Rahab]

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!
    Awake, as in the days of old,
    the generations of ancient times.
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to rejoice in our salvation today, particularly when facing trials

⁵ [you] are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 
⁶ Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
you have been grieved in various trials, 
⁷ that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that…

Heavenly father
give us grace to desire good today, for ourselves and for others

⁹ Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 
¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 
¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!…

¹⁰ For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. ¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. ¹² You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You shall seek me, and find me…

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
    turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰ They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
    and refused to walk in his law.
¹¹ They forgot his doings,
    his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
¹² He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers,
    in…

Heavenly father
give us grace to ask, seek and knock today. 

⁷ “Ask, and it will be given you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you. 
⁸ For everyone who asks receives.
He who seeks finds.
To him who knocks it will be opened. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our hearts today to you so that we may know your righteousness and live accordingly. 

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
    and the earth will wear out like a garment.
Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
    but my salvation will be forever,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live in hope today, as those who have been born again in the Lord Jesus Christ

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again
to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 
⁴ to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be careful today and to be able to discern when to hold back in relationships

⁶ “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs,
neither throw your pearls before the pigs,
lest perhaps they trample them under their feet,
and turn and tear you to pieces.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth,…

¹ Hear my teaching, my people.
    Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth in a parable.
    I will utter dark sayings of old,
³ Which we have heard and known,
    and our fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not hide them from their children,
    telling to the generation to come the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see our own imperfections today and deal with them

³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye,
but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 
⁴ Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’
and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 
⁵ You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye,
and then you can see clearly…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be agents of your justice today, trusting in you  

⁴ “Listen to me, my people;
    and hear me, my nation,
for a law will go out from me,
    and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
⁵ My righteousness is near.
    My salvation has gone out,
    and my arms will…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to Jesus Christ today so that we may live in grace and peace

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion
in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 
² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
in sanctification of the Spirit,
that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood:
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be generous in the measure we use for those around us today

¹ “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 
² For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged;
and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 

1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know…

¹¹ I will remember Yah’s deeds;
    for I will remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will also meditate on all your work,
    and consider your doings.
¹³ Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
    What god is great like God?
¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders.
    You have made your strength known among the peoples.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek first your kingdom today.

³¹ “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ 
³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 
³³ But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to find our joy in you today

¹ “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
    you who seek Yahweh.
Look to the rock you were cut from,
    and to the quarry you were dug from.
² Look to Abraham your father,
    and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him,
    I…

Heavenly father
give us grace to help those who have wandered from the truth today. 

¹⁹ Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 
²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow you to clothe us today.

²⁷ “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? 
²⁸ Why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, 
²⁹ yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 
³⁰ But if God so clothes the…

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked advance against me
    to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
   …

⁴ You hold my eyelids open.
    I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
⁵ I have considered the days of old,
⁶ I consider in my own heart;
    my spirit diligently inquires:
⁷ “Will the Lord reject us forever?
    Will he be favourable no more?
⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to use money today in the context of serving you, rather than using you to serve money.

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You can’t serve both God and Mammon. 
²⁵ Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink;
nor yet for your body, what you will…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust in you today

¹⁰ Who among you fears Yahweh
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
He who walks in darkness
    and has no light,
let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
    and rely on his God.
[the alternative is to make our own fire, our own light which leads to lying down in sorrow]

¹¹ Behold, all you…