Daily Bible Verses

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…

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.

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…

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.

Heavenly father give us grace to discern what is not good, and what does not bring life, and to resist the temptation to indulge in such things today

¹² Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved,
he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,”
for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 
¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by…

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry   JAMES 1:19

Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: ‘People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship – and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.’ ACTS 17:22–23

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Heavenly father
give us grace to be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger

¹⁹ So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be
swift to hear,
slow to speak,
and slow to anger; ²⁰ for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to put into practice those things we have heard and know to be right today - particularly to put away what it filthy and wicked.
give us the humility to face up to our past and present failures to do this. 

²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be careful with what we say, and to seek out those who need help

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious
while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart,
this man’s religion is worthless. 
²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to honour all people 

1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. 
² For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, 
and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, 
³ and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;”
and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool” 
⁴ haven’t you shown…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to love others as we love ourselves today.

⁸ However, if you fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture,
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself, you do well. 
⁹ But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 
¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 
¹¹ For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to live under the law of freedom, showing mercy to all.

¹² So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. 
¹³ For judgement is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to respond to the needs of others in faith

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? 
¹⁵ And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 
¹⁶ and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;”
yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? 
¹⁷ Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. 
¹⁸ Yes…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be your friend today in all that we do.

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well.
The demons also believe, and shudder. 
²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 
²¹ Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 
²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. 
²³ So the Scripture was…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be alive in spirit and in faith and for this to flow out in good works. 

²⁴ You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 
²⁵ In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works,
in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 
²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.