Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have integrity today, putting into practice those things that we have said that we believe.  
 

¹ Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgement. 
² For we all stumble in many things.
Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person,
able to bridle the whole body also. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to let our words be guided by your Spirit. 

³ Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths
so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. 
⁴ Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds,
are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. 
⁵ So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things.
See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to bless other people, particularly in what we say. 

⁶ And the tongue is a fire.
The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue,
which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 
⁷ For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; 
⁸ but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 
⁹ With…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to walk in the gentle way of wisdom

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you?
Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. 
¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. 
¹⁵ This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 
¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern the difference between thankful enjoyment of the life in the world that you created, and an unhealthy focus on gratifying our pleasures

¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from?
Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 
² You lust, and don’t have.
You murder and covet, and can’t obtain.
You fight and make war.
You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 
³ You ask, and don’t…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to walk humbly and obediently in relationship with you

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? 
⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
⁷ Be subject therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to draw near to you with a repentant and humble spirit

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. 
⁹ Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 
¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be kind in our words about others.

¹¹ Don’t speak against one another, brothers.
He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother,
speaks against the law and judges the law.
But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 
¹² Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Heavenly Father
give us grace to accept the gift of today without presuming on tomorrow

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city,
and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
14 Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow.
For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

^{Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be humble and faithful}

^{16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.}

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn away today from anything which is fraudulent, dishonest and harmful to others

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 
² Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 
³ Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire.
You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 
⁴ Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be patient today and to attend to matters of the heart

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 
⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Heavenly father
give us grace to not grumble against others today, but be full of patience, compassion and mercy. 

⁹ Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. 
¹⁰ Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 
¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured.
You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be truth tellers today

¹² But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear
not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath;
but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Heavenly father
give us grace to pray and give thanks today whatever the circumstances

¹³ Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to face up to and turn away from those things that draw us away from you today

¹⁴ Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, 
¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 
¹⁶ Confess your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Heavenly father
give us grace to pray faithfully today

¹⁶ The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 
¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain,
and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. 
¹⁸ He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

Heavenly father
give us grace to help those who have wandered from the truth today. 

¹⁹ Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 
²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh,
    and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,
    who spreads out its roots by the river,
and will not fear when heat comes,
    but its leaf will be green,
and will not be concerned in the year of drought.
    It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

¹⁰ For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. ¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. ¹² You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you,” says…