Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be distressed by what is wicked so that we may not be led into temptation

⁴ For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, 
and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgement; 
⁵ and didn’t spare the ancient world,
       but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness,
when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 
⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to look for what is good in those in authority

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority.
Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear your voice calling us back to you whenever we speak evil in matters about which we are ignorant

¹¹ whereas angels, though greater in might and power,
don’t bring a railing judgement against them before the Lord. 
¹² But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed,
speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, 
¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness;…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid both empty words and also words that cause others to be burdened

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm;
for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 
¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness,
they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness,
those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 
¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be entangled in, or overcome by, anything which defiles us. 

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled in it and overcome,
the last state has become worse for them than the first. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know the way of righteousness and stay in it. 

²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 
²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns to his own vomit again,”and
“the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to live today as those who remember that all ungodliness will perish, when Jesus returns. 

¹ This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you;
and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you 
² that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets
and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 
³ knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to have an eternal perspective

⁸ But don’t forget this one thing, beloved,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient and forgiving, just as you are. 

⁹ The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness;
but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live holy and godly lives

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat,
and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 
¹¹ Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this,
what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, 
¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in peace

¹³ But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth,
in which righteousness dwells.
¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things,
be diligent to be found in peace,
without defect and blameless in his sight. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient, particularly if we find life inexplicable.  

¹⁵ Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also,
according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, 
¹⁶ as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things.
In those, there are some things that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled twist,
as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. 
¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Heavenly father
give us grace, mercy and peace today and always

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ² to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with a pure conscience.
give grace today to those whose sincere faith nurtured us in the faith.

³ I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; ^5 …

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you…. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.   2 Timothy 1:5–7 

Rev. Yvette Flunder encourages us to use our own gifts in the service of others:  

Paul is talking to Timothy about the gift of God placed in Timothy by God. Apparently some…

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. ⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus…

Heavenly father
stir up in us your gifts of power, love and self control.

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to know your Son, the bringer of life and immortality

⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, ¹⁰ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful and loving today through your Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁵ This you know, that all who are…

Heavenly father
give us the strength that we need to face today’s hardships, strength which flows from the grace that is in Christ Jesus

¹ You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. ³ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to die to the things of this world so that we might live in Your song
and thank you that when we are faithless in this, Jesus is still faithful.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring^[a] of David, according to my Good News, ⁹ in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But…

Heavenly father
give us grace to depart from all unrighteousness (including empty chatter) so that we may be prepared for every good work today.

¹⁵ Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. ¹⁶ But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, ¹⁷ and those words will consume…

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn away from our destructive desires, to call on you, and to fill our lives with righteousness, faith, love and peace.

²² Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 

Heavenly father
* give us grace to be patient and gentle with whom we disagree; and
* give us teachable spirits.

²³ But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. ²⁴ The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance…

Heavenly father
give us grace to discern when healthy love of self turns to something unhealthy, arrogant and abusive
give us grace in our families to be respectful, thankful and affectionate

¹ But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,  blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving, truthful, self controlled, gentle, loving what is good, faithful and humble, loving you as our God, allowing your power to work in us.

² Men will be .unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, 
⁴ traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 
⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power.
Turn away from these, also

Heavenly father
give us grace to not take advantage of the vulnerabilities of others
give us grace to always search after the truth in our learning
protect us from our minds becoming corrupted.

⁶ For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ⁷ always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to learn from the faith, patience, love and steadfastness of others;
give us grace to hope that you will deliver us out of all our adversities; and
deliver us from being deceived and deceiving.

¹⁰ But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 
¹¹ persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra.
I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. 

…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to truly love our close friends.

1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.