Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be dead to sin today, so that we may walk in newness of life

(^5:20 where sin abounded, grace over abounded)

^6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that…

1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I thank my God every time I remember you. ⁴ In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy ⁵ because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, ^6…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace that we may over abound in grace and righteousness

¹⁷For if in the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one;
so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to walk in paths of righteousness today

¹²Therefore just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin;
so death passed to all people, because all sinned.
¹³…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live reconciled lives both in our relationship with You and in our relationship with others.

⁹Much more then, being now made righteous in his blood,
we will be saved from wrath through him.
¹⁰…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in love particularly when our circumstances are shaped by sins (both our own and those of others)

⁶For while we were yet weak, at the right time
Christ died on behalf of the wicked.
^7…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in hope and love, whatever our circumstances

And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
³Not only this, but we also rejoice in…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live at peace which arises from faithfulness

¹Being therefore made righteous out of faithfulness,
we have peace towards God
through our Lord Jesus Christ;
^…

Give us grace to trust you in difficult circumstances with hope, particular in valleys of deep shadows.

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”
This is in the presence of him whom he believed:
God, who gives life to the dead,
and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
¹⁸Besides hope, Abraham in hope trusted,
to the end that he might become a father of…

Give us grace to affirm the faithfulness of others today, being thankful that Abraham’s family of faith is wide.

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision,
but who also walk in the steps of the faith in uncircumsion of our father Abraham
¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring
that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law,
but through the righteousness of…

Give us grace to be true to our baptism, that we may be immersed in you and trust in you today (just as the descendants of Abraham should be true to their circumcision and trust in you today)

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also?
For we are saying that faith was accounted to Abraham towards righteousness.
¹⁰In what way then was it accounted?
When he was in circumcision…

Give us grace to be forgiven and forgiving people today,
being willing not to hold past sins against others
(and give us grace to know when and how to confront ongoing sins in ourselves and others)

⁶Even as David speaks the blessedness of the man
to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works,
⁷“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
 whose sins are covered…

Give us grace to trust in you today

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
²For if Abraham was made righteous out of works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
³For what does the Scripture say?
“Abraham Trusted in God, and it was accounted to him towards righteousness.”
⁴Now to him who works, the…

Jesus said: ¹⁹ Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Heavenly father, give us grace to hear your voice and be obedient to what you call us to do. 

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. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

 

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry   JAMES 1:19

Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: ‘People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship…

14 And we urge you, brothers [and sisters], admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not…

Yaweh, may your will become  the will of the world’s leaders so that peace may break out for all peoples.

3. Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.”

The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many…

Dear Lord, We thank-you so much for your Promise that this present Storm/Winter we are in will pass, that the season of Spring will come again. Help us to look up and see what you are doing and the courage to get up and go with you when you call us out of one season of our lives into another.  Amen.

11See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
¹² Flowers appear on the earth;
   …

He will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

Give us grace to be faithful today and avoid all boasting

²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded.
By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faithfulness.
²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is made righteous by faithfulness apart from the works of the law.
²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only?
Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
³⁰since indeed there is one…

Give us grace to show forth your righteousness today, coming out of the faithfulness of Jesus

For there is no distinction,
²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
²⁴being made righteous freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith(fulness) in his blood,
for a showing forth of his righteousness
through the passing…

Give us the grace of Jesus Christ to be faithful today

^3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says,
it speaks to those who are under the law,
that every mouth may be closed,
and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight;
for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
^3:21But now apart from…

Give us grace to seek after you, to fear you and to know the way of peace today

^3:9What then? Are we better than they?
No, in no way.
For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
¹⁰As it is written,
“There is no one righteous;  no, not one.
¹¹There is no one who understands.
 There is no one who seeks after God.
^…

Give us grace to avoid taking your goodness for granted.

^3:5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say?
Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
⁶May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
⁷For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
why am I also still judged as a sinner?
⁸Why not (as we are slanderously…