Daily Bible Verses

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…

Give us grace to be true to what you have revealed of yourself to us

^3:1Then what advantage does the Jew have?
Or what is the profit of circumcision?
²Much in every way!
Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
³For what if some were without faith?
Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
⁴May it never be! Yes, let God be found true…

Give us grace to love you with all our hearts today.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law,
but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law,
won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
²⁷Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you,
who with…

Give us grace to have integrity today, and do the things that we know are good.

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
¹⁸know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind,
a light to those who are in darkness,
²⁰a corrector of the foolish,
a teacher of babies, having in…

Give us grace to listen to you speaking to us through our conscience today

¹²For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law.
As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God,
but the doers of the law will be justified
¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law,
these…

Give us grace to perseverance in well-doing today, repenting of being self seeking and unrighteous

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart
you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation,
and of the righteous judgement of God;
⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour…

Give us grace today to not stand in judgement over others, but to repent of our own failings

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge.
For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself.
For you who judge practice the same things.
²We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
³Do you think this, O man who judges…

Give us grace today to turn away from all that is disobedient to you.

²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, ³⁰backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; ³²…

Give us grace today to have our knowledge based in you.

²⁶For this reason (their suppression of the truth of God in unrighteousness), God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. ²⁷Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due…

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be…

Give us grace today to avoid all that is ungodly and unrighteous, but be open to your revelation of yourself

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. ²⁰For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen…

Give us grace to live faithfully as Jesus lived faithfully, and so be part of your revelation of your righteousness and your power

^1:13Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. ^15…

Give us grace to live faithfully in a caring community today, where we give and receive support and encouragement through prayer and through gifts

^1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. ⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰…

Give us grace to belong to Jesus Christ today, living faithfully, as he lived faithfully, not being afraid of anything which brings death, but having peace arising from the power of his resurrection from the dead

^1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, ²which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³concerning…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to notice others today and share their joys and sorrows 

40 After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, . 
² Pharaoh ³ put them in the prison, where ⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. ⁵ They both dreamed a dream, in one night,
^6…

13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats[b]; do not be frightened.”[c] 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an…

Heavenly father
give us grace to rejoice in humble circumstances

⁹ But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 
¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 
¹¹ For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes…

⁵ By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us,
    God of our salvation.
You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
    of those who are far away on the sea.
⁶ By your power, you form the mountains,
    ⁷ You still the roaring of the seas.    
⁸ They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your…

Heavenly Father, our maker
give us grace to trust in your saving power, even when you are hidden from us

¹¹ Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
    and his Maker says:
“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
    and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
¹² I have made the earth, and created man on it.
¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness…

Heavenly father
give us grace to express our deep longing to be with you, even when we don’t know what that would look like

¹¹ But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping.
So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, 
¹² and she saw two angels in white sitting,
one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 
¹³ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to see evidence of the kingdom and believe it.

The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. 
⁵ Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. 
⁶ Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb.
He saw the linen cloths lying, ⁷ and the cloth that had been on his…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust you as our father to bring forth righteousness and salvation in us and for us in your own ways 

⁸ Rain, you heavens, from above,
    and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,
    and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.
I, Yahweh, have created it.

^9 …

¹ Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.
    Vows shall be performed to you.
² You who hear prayer,
    all men will come to you.
³ Sins overwhelmed me,
    but you atoned for our transgressions.
⁴ Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near,
    that he may live in your courts…

Heavenly father
give us grace to refrain from doing what is wrong, whatever the consequences are,
and open our eyes to see your grace whatever our circumstances

⁶ Joseph was well-built and handsome. 
⁷ His master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
⁸ But he refused, and said to his master’s wife,
“Behold, my master has put all that he has into my hand. 
⁹ How then…

13 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4…