Daily Bible Verses by Book

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent. 

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbours, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cosey emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cosey emotional feeling on demand as you can a yawn or a sneeze. On the...

35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken....

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pay attention to the one who died and rose again, so that we may repent of everything that draws us away from him

³⁸ Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
³⁹ But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. 
⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish,
so will the Son of Man...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to open our hearts to you spirit today, so that there is no room for evil within us. 

⁴³ “When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through water less places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. 
⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 
⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there.
The last...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do your will.

⁴⁶ While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
 ⁴⁷ One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
⁴⁸ But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” 
⁴⁹ He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! 
⁵⁰ ...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discard what is of ultimate importance

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. 
² Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. 
³ He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. 
⁴ As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to allow your words to affect our lives at a deep level

⁵ Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. 
⁶ When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to root out all those things which get in the way of eternally important things. 

⁷ Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. 
⁸ Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to look for the deeper mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven

¹⁰ The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
¹¹ He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 
¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance;
but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 

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Heavenly father
give us grace to live today with our eyes open and ears attentive, so that we may understand and find healing for when our hearts are callous, our ears dull of hearing and our eyes wide shut. 

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see,
and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 
¹⁴ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,

‘By hearing you will...