Daily Bible Verses

[Looking back at God’s mercy in the past]

¹ Yahweh, you have been favourable to your land.
    You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
² You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
    You have covered all their sin. Selah.
³ You have taken away all your wrath.
    You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

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Heavenly father
give us grace to love you with all our strength today

¹² From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 
¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 
¹⁴ If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. 
¹⁵ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to feed on you and delight in you today

¹ “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
    Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
    Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
² Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
    and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy?
Listen diligently to me,...

Heavenly father give us grace to turn away from deceit, and seek peace today

¹⁰ For, “He who would love life
    and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
    and his lips from speaking deceit.
¹¹ Let him turn away from evil and do good.
    Let him seek peace and pursue it.
¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
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Heavenly father
give us grace to live as citizens of the kingdom of Heaven today

⁷ As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, 
“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 
⁸ But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. 
⁹ But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I...

12 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

⁹ Behold, God our shield,
    look at the face of your anointed.
¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
    I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
    than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
    Yahweh will give grace and glory.
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Heavenly father
give us grace to see you at work today

⁴ Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: 
⁵ the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
⁶ Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to only use the weapons of your spirit today

¹⁶ “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame,
    and forges a weapon for his work;
    and I have created the destroyer to destroy.
¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;
    and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in...

Heavenly father give us grace today to  do this: 

⁸ Finally, all of you be like-minded,
compassionate, loving as brothers,
tenderhearted, courteous, 
⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult;
but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to voice our deepest fears to you when we are in difficulty

¹ When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

² Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples 
³ and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

⁸ Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
    Call on his name.
    Make what he has done known among the peoples.
⁹ Sing to him.
    Sing praises to him.
    Tell of all his marvellous works.
¹⁰ Glory in his holy name.
    Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
¹¹ Seek Yahweh and his strength.
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⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
⁶ Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
    Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
⁷ They go from strength to strength.
    Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
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Heavenly father
give us grace to be generous to those around us today

⁴⁰ “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. 
⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward.
He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. 
⁴² Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see the immense and eternal power that is in you and with us today. 

¹⁴ You will be established in righteousness.
    You will be far from oppression,
    for you will not be afraid,
    and far from terror,
    for it shall not come near you.
¹⁵ Behold, they may...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to honour all people

⁷ You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge,
giving honour to the woman, as to the weaker vessel,
as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Heavenly father
give us grace to follow you today, whatever the cost  

³⁸ He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me. 
³⁹ He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

¹ Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself...

¹ How lovely are your dwellings,
    Yahweh of Armies!
² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh.
    My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
³ Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
    near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
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Heavenly father
give us grace be faithful to you particularly when it would be more peaceful not to.

³⁴ “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. 
³⁵ For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 
³⁶ A man’s foes will be those of his own household. ...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be a blessing to the next generation 

¹¹ “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
    behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colours,
    and lay your foundations with sapphires.
¹² I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
    your gates of sparkling jewels,
    and all your walls of precious...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to gentle and quiet in our spirits

³ Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 
⁴ but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit,
which is very precious in the sight of God. 
⁵ For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in...

Heavenly father
give us grace to stand by the truths that we know about you today.  

³² Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. 
³³ But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

1 May the Lord answer you when you are in distress;
    may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
2 May he send you help from the sanctuary
    and grant you support from Zion.
3 May he remember all your sacrifices
    and accept your burnt offerings.[b]

4...

¹ God, don’t keep silent.
    Don’t keep silent,
    and don’t be still, God.
² For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
    Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
³ They conspire with cunning against your people.
    They plot against your cherished ones.
⁵ For they have conspired together with...