Daily Bible Verses

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.