Daily Bible Verses

1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. 2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to…

13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
    for it is time to have pity on her.
    Yes, the set time has come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live under the Lordship of Christ 

⁴¹ Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 
⁴² saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “Of David.”…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to declare your glory today, particularly to those far from the household of faith

19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 

…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love in word and deed and truth

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, 
then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? 
¹⁸ My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 
 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to love you with all our heart, soul and mind

³³ When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
³⁴ But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. 
³⁵ One of them…

8 My enemies reproach me all day.
    Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread,
    and mixed my drink with tears,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to know the power of the resurrection 

²³ On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, ²⁴ saying, “Teacher, 
Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who are known by you. 

18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love others as we have been loved

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have are priorities in the right order 

¹⁷ Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
¹⁸ But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?…

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
3 For my days consume away like smoke.
    My bones are burned as a torch.
4 My heart is blighted like grass,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek after truth, rather than scoring points  or making points

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. 
¹⁶ They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, 
“Teacher, we know…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to see the downfall of wickedness and evil

14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
    and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.
Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love others, particularly when others hate us

¹³ Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 
¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. 
He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death. 
¹⁵ Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to full participate in the kingdom of heaven

¹¹ “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, 
¹² and he said to…

1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
    Let my cry come to you.
2 Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to look out for those who are socially excluded

⁸ “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. 
⁹ Go therefore to the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the peace that flows from you, and to be channels of peace and comfort to others. 

5 Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word:
12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek to do what is righteous and loving

⁹ Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, 
and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. 
¹⁰ In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. 
Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother. 
¹¹ For this is…

Heavenly father
give us grace to  accept your invitation to heaven today

⁴ Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. 
My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’…

6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,
    that they may dwell with me.
He who walks in a perfect way,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to celebrate the kingdom of heaven

¹ Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, 
² “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to choose your ways

3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
    he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;
    he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be careful who we take advice from, taking account of the fruits of their lives

⁷ Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 
⁸ He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. 
To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil. 
 

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek first your kingdom and bear its fruit today 

⁴² Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the Scriptures:
‘“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
the Lord has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes”?
⁴³ ‘Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 
^44 …

7 Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to…

4 A perverse heart will be far from me.
    I will have nothing to do with evil.
5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour.
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to respect Jesus

³⁷ Last of all, he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son,” he said.
³⁸ ‘But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.” 
³⁹ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
⁴⁰ ‘Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have a contrite spirit. 

1 Yahweh says,

“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
    What kind of house will you build to me?  …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in you and live pure lives

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. 
⁴ Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. 
⁵ You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him. 
⁶ Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to listen, particularly when we need to hear difficult messages. 

³⁵ ‘The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 
³⁶ Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them in the same way. 
 

1 I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
    To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
2 I will be careful to live a blameless life.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be content where you have placed us and see around us all your provision for us, even when you seem absent. 

³³ ‘Listen to another parable: there was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall round it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. ³⁴ When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in hope for peace

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
    Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
    says Yahweh.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in hope.

² Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to faithfully do what acts of righteousness that you call us to do.

²⁸ ‘What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”
²⁹ ‘“I will not,” he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
³⁰ ‘Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, “I will, sir,” but he did not go.
^31…

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,…

³ Know that Yahweh, he is God.
    It is he who has made us, and we are his.
    We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
    and into his courts with praise.
    Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
⁵ For Yahweh is good.
    His loving kindness endures forever,
 …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be wise when we are confronted by people whose heart is not for the kingdom of Heaven

²³ Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. ‘By what authority are you doing these things?’ they asked. ‘And who gave you this authority?’

²⁴ Jesus replied, ‘I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to speak our deepest desires to you today

²⁴ It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
    and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know that we are loved

¹ See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and ask for kingdom things 

²⁰ When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. ‘How did the fig-tree wither so quickly?’ they asked.

²¹ Jesus replied, ‘Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig-tree, but also you can say to this mountain, “Go, throw yourself into the sea,” and it will be done. ²² …

¹ Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
²     Serve Yahweh with gladness.
    Come before his presence with singing.
 

In the beginning

Heavenly father
give us grace to bear fruit for the benefit of others today

¹⁸ Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹ Seeing a fig-tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice righteousness today

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 
²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to talk about the hope we have, particularly when we sense that we are childlike in our understanding.  

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.
¹⁶ ‘Do you…