Daily Bible Verses

Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:24)

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The rockstar, born Dom Harrison in Doncaster, is on a stratospheric rise. He’s scored hit albums worldwide, his US arena tour sold out in one minute, and he’s an unstoppable social media force. He’s heir…

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14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family^[…

‘And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.’

Matthew 9:10–13

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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11v1)

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“You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:13)
Many of us, myself included, have a confused, guilt-ridden, obsessive attitude about money. There’s hardly anybody who can think in a clear-headed way about it. At the end of Luke’s parable of the so-called dishonest steward, Jesus creates a clear dualism between God and wealth, or what he calls “mammon”: “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Luke 16:13). Mammon was the god of wealth, money, superficiality, and success. Jesus…

³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save their life^[b] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will…

The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.  1 Corinthians 6:13

The Old and New Testaments affirm that sexual intercourse belongs exclusively within the covenant of marriage. For many today, this approach to sex is a big reason for rejecting the Bible, even though many of the values our culture insists on – individual rights, gender equality, consent for intimacy – have come from the Bible and were revolutionary in their…

‘The time has come,’ he said. ‘The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!’ (Mark 1:15)

What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (in Latin, limen means a threshold) is a very good phrase for those special times, events, and places that open us up to the sacred. All Saints Day and…

12 Jacob had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the …

He said to the paralytic –  ‘I say to you, stand up, take your mat, and go to your home.’ And he stood up and immediately took the mat and went out before all of them, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, ‘We have never seen anything like this!’  Mark 2:10b–12

Supernatural stories of extraordinary miracles may discourage some people from taking the Bible seriously. There seems to be a disconnect between the world we inhabit, where the laws of…

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Matthew 26:73  After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, ‘Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.’

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed those who were ill. Matthew 14:14

Among his other functions it is clear that Jesus functioned as a prophet. In both his teaching and his very presence, Jesus of Nazareth presented the ultimate criticism of the royal empire consciousness…. The way of his ultimate criticism is his decisive solidarity with marginal people.

Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion.…

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
…

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God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,…

²⁹ ‘Truly I tell you,’ Jesus replied, ‘no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel ³⁰ will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields – along with persecutions – and in the age to come eternal life. ³¹ But many who are first…

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Proverbs 3v1-12

1 My son, do not forget my teaching,
    but keep my commands in your heart,
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22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a…

‘Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.’   Mark 6:41–44

Food shapes our daily routines. So it’s striking that one of Jesus’ most famous miracles is about a meal – the…

Psalm 100v1-5

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Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
²     Worship the Lord with gladness;
    come before him with joyful songs.
³ Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us…

¹¹ Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Colossians 3:11

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³¹ those who use the things of the world, [should live] as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away. 1 Corinthians 7:31

Francis and Clare of Assisi were not so much prophets by what they said as in the radical, system-critiquing way that they lived their lives. They found both their inner and outer freedom by structurally living on the edge of the inside of church and society. Too often people seek either…

8 ‘Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labour and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and…

St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) began his community with a clear intention: “The Rule and the life of the Friars Minor is to simply live the gospel.” The first Rule (the guide for the community’s way of life) that he started writing around 1209 was little more than a collection of New Testament passages. When Francis sent it off to Rome, the pope looked at it and said, “This is no Rule. This is just the gospel.” You can just hear Francis saying, “Yes—that is…

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Matthew 26:73  After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, ‘Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.’

“Peace be with you” was the greeting of Jesus to the apostles at his sudden appearance among them. They were in a locked room in Jerusalem (Luke 24:36; John 20:19), and behind them was the stupendous fact of the resurrection. Was this a ghost? To reassure them, Jesus showed them his pierced side and the marks of the nails on his hands and his feet. On this momentous meeting, he breathed on them the power of the Holy Spirit and commissioned them to preach in his name to all the nations,…