Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to serve you and other people

¹³ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,“Behold, my servants will eat,
    but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
    but you will be disappointed;
¹⁴ Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
    but you will cry for sorrow of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to all, including ourselves

^{[There will be an end to unrighteousness]
15} You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

^{[But righteousness is altogether different]]}
He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶     so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
    and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the hope of a new heaven and a new earth

¹⁷ “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
    and the former things will not be remembered,
    nor come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
    for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
    and her people a joy.
¹⁹ I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
    …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

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 will long enjoy the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labour in vain
…

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 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 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?      Where will I rest?
…

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 blood;
    …

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,
    and the glory of the nations like an…

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 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 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. 

20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to value you above all

22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, 
“so your offspring and your name shall remain. 
23 It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, 
all flesh will come to worship before…

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a]whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks…

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a]  whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be joyful and faithful when various temptations come our way 

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 
³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 
⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Heavenly father
give us grace to ask for wisdom in faith without doubting

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 
⁶ But let him ask in faith, without any doubting,
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 
⁷ For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 
⁸ He is a double-minded man, unstable in…

Heavenly father
give us grace to rejoice in humble circumstances

⁹ But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 
¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 
¹¹ For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls,
and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.