Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace today to let our words be guided by your Spirit. 

³ Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths
so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. 
⁴ Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds,
are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. 
⁵ So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see that the Kingdom of Heaven is among us, and to turn away from anything which is not of your Kingdom. 

¹ In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, 
² “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” 
³ For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,…

¹⁶ We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. ¹⁷ In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. ^19…

²⁹ But I am in pain and distress.
    Let your salvation, God, protect me.
³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song,
    and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
³² The humble have seen it, and are glad.
    You who seek after God, let your heart live.
³³ For Yahweh hears the needy,…

7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,“The stone the builders rejecte has become the cornerstone,” 8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble    and a rock that makes them fall.”They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be attentive to your promptings, particularly when we are afraid; and give us grace to then be obedient 

¹⁹ But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 
²⁰ “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
²¹ He arose…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be merciful today, particularly in difficult circumstances

⁹ For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
    and for my praise, I hold it back for you
    so that I don’t cut you off.
¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you,
    but not as silver.
    I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have integrity today, putting into practice those things that we have said that we believe.  
 

¹ Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgement. 
² For we all stumble in many things.
Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person,
able to bridle the whole body also. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to restrain our own anger, to bare the sorrow of others, and to bear our own sorrows.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry,
and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside,
from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men. 
¹⁷ Then…

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul and redeem it.
    Ransom me because of my enemies.
²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
    I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
    for comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They also gave me poison for my food.
    In my thirst,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be attentive to hearing you and being obedient to you today 

¹² Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
¹³ Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying,
“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be guided by you today, whether the guidance is from of old, or whether it is from today.

[God revealing things in advance]

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate;
⁵ therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
    before it came to pass I showed it to you;
    lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
    My engraved image…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be alive in spirit and in faith and for this to flow out in good works. 

²⁴ You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 
²⁵ In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works,
in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 
²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart…

Heavenly father
give us grace to rightly value people and things today, and to value you above all.

⁷ Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. 
⁸ He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child.
When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

⁹ They, having heard the…

1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to…

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink.
    Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
¹⁵ Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,
    neither let the deep swallow me up.
    Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
¹⁶ Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good.
    According to the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to worship you today, and to shepherd those who are entrusted to our care. 

¹ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod,
behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, 
² “Where is he who is born King of the Jews?
For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.” 
³ When King Herod heard it, he…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to your voice today, and grace to rely on you as citizens of the kingdom of heaven, in truth and righteousness

 ¹ “Hear this, house of Jacob,
    you who are called by the name of Israel,
    and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
    and make mention of the God of Israel,
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be your friend today in all that we do.

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well.
The demons also believe, and shudder. 
²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 
²¹ Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 
²² You see that faith worked with…

Heavenly father
give us grace to not only rejoice that you are with us today, but also to be obedient to what you command us to do today. 

²⁰ But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,
‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,
because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 
²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the…

⁷ Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers,
⁹ For the zeal of your house consumes me.
    The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
¹² Those who sit in the gate talk about me.
    I am the song of the drunkards.
¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable…

⁵ God, you know my foolishness.
    My sins aren’t hidden from you.
⁶ Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.
    Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do seek to do what is right and what is kind 

¹⁸ This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about:
his mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph,
but before they came together,
she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 
¹⁹ Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law,
and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
he had in…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be careful and wise in what we trust today, particularly being wary of what makes us comfortable. 

⁸ ‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,  “I am, and there is none besides me.
¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
¹¹ Disaster will come…