Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to love you with all our strength today

¹² From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 
¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 
¹⁴ If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. 
¹⁵ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Heavenly father
give us grace to be wise and not have a critical spirit today

¹⁶ “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions 
¹⁷ and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’ 
¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 
¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard…

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn towards you when we have turned away.

²⁰ Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. 
²¹ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 
²² But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgement than for you. …

Heavenly father
give us grace to listen to you today as a small child listens to a parent

²⁵ At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. 
²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. 
²⁷ All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father;
neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires…

Jesus said “Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”

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28 ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and…

28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. …

Heavenly father
give us grace to bring our burdens to you today

²⁸ “Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 
²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart;
and you will find rest for your souls. 
³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Heavenly father
give us today our daily bread

¹ At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields.
His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 
² But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see the bigger picture, looking past good rules and regulations, to the greater good

³ But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 
⁴ how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor
for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 
⁵ Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do what is right today, whether or not it is popular

⁹ He departed from there and went into their synagogue. 
¹⁰ And behold, there was a man with a withered hand.
They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” so that they might accuse him.
¹¹ He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep,
and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it and lift it out? 
¹² Of how much more value then…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid conflict and to help others

¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
¹⁵ Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there.
Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all, 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to focus on justice rather than publicity

¹⁵ Great multitudes followed Jesus; and he healed them all, 
¹⁶ and commanded them that they should not make him known, 
¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

¹⁸ “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
    my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit on him.
    He will …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be gentle to those who are bruised

²⁰ He won’t break a bruised reed.
    He won’t quench a smoking flax,
until he leads justice to victory.
²¹     In his name, the nations will hope.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to help those who cannot see things to see them, and those who cannot communicate to communicate

²² Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him,
so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. 
²³ All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?” 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be loyal to those who hearts are set on the kingdom of God

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
²⁵ Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation,
and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 
²⁶ If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?…

Heavenly father
Deliver us all from evil today, we pray

²⁷ If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 
²⁸ But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you. 
²⁹ Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods,
unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to turn to you today in our hearts, in what we do and in what we say

³⁰ “He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. 
³¹ Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 
³² Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit,
it will not be forgiven him, either…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to open our hearts to you, so that our mouths may speak your words of truth and peace

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good,
or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. 
³⁴ You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 
³⁵ The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pay attention to the one who died and rose again, so that we may repent of everything that draws us away from him

³⁸ Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
³⁹ But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign,
but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. 
⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish,
so will the Son of Man…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to open our hearts to you spirit today, so that there is no room for evil within us. 

⁴³ “When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through water less places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. 
⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 
⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there.
The last…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to do your will.

⁴⁶ While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
 ⁴⁷ One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
⁴⁸ But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” 
⁴⁹ He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! 
⁵⁰ …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discard what is of ultimate importance

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside. 
² Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. 
³ He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow. 
⁴ As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to allow your words to affect our lives at a deep level

⁵ Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. 
⁶ When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to root out all those things which get in the way of eternally important things. 

⁷ Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. 
⁸ Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to look for the deeper mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven

¹⁰ The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
¹¹ He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 
¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance;
but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 

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Heavenly father
give us grace to live today with our eyes open and ears attentive, so that we may understand and find healing for when our hearts are callous, our ears dull of hearing and our eyes wide shut. 

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see,
and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 
¹⁴ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,

‘By hearing you will…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be thankful for everything we have have been given.

¹⁶ “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. 
¹⁷ For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men
desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them;
and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

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Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to understand what you say to us in our hearts

¹⁸ “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow your words to us take root in the way in which we live today.

²⁰ What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid the deceitfulness of riches

²² What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to hear and understand the word of the Kingdom of God, so that we may bear fruit abundantly

²³ What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to trust you when bad things happen

²⁴ He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. ²⁷ The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today tol live at peace alongside all that is good and all that is not good in the world. 

²⁸ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

²⁹ “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. 
³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the seed of the Kingdom grow in us

³¹ He set another parable before them, saying, 
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, 
³² which indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven to do your work in us

³³ He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

33 He told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flour until it worked all through the dough.’

Richard Rohr describes why role models and personal examples often inspire change more effectively than right ideas and beliefs:  

Correct ideas and church mandates cannot cause the kind of change that the soul needs. The soul needs living models to grow, exemplars with the expansive energies of love. People…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be attentive to the hidden things of the Kingdom of Heaven

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, 
³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

“I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Jesus said, “I will speak to you in parables and reveal to you things hidden since the foundation of the world.” —Matthew 13:35, quoting Psalm 78:2  

Richard Rohr describes how Jesus uses parables to challenge our ways of thinking: 

A parable is a unique form of literature that’s always trying to subvert business as usual, much like a Zen koan or a Confucian riddle, which both use paradox to undo our reliance on what we think is logic. Yet we typically do not let parables do that for us. Our dominant consciousness is so in control that…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to do what is right

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

³⁷ He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, ³⁸ the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,…