Daily Bible Verses

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.

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…

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. 

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 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. 
…

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.

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.