Daily Bible Verses

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  • 1 John 4v4

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to live in the assurance that he who is in us is greater than all else

    4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 
     

  • 1 John 4v5-6

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to listen to truth

    5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 
    6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. 
    By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

     

  • Variety: 1 John 4v7

    “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God”.  (1 John 4:7)

    If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. 

    We are invited to encounter a love that just keeps opening to us, and then pass on the same by “opening and opening” to the increasingly larger world around us, willingly falling into the “bright abyss,” where all weighing and counting are unnecessary and even burdensome.  

    We are invited…

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  • Variety: 1 John 4v7

    Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    John Ruusbroec’s famous text The Divine Espousals, describes intimate union with God “without difference”:  

    In this storm of love two spirits struggle—the Spirit of God and our spirit. God, by means of the Holy Spirit, inclines [Godself] toward us, and we are thereby touched in love; our spirit, by means of God’s activity and the amorous power, impels and inclines itself toward God, and thereby God is touched. From…

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  • 1 John 4v7-8

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to know you and to love as you love.

    7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 
    8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. 
     

  • Variety: 1 John 4v7-12

    7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 …

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  • 1 John 4v9

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to live through Jesus

    9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 
     

  • 1 John 4v10

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to live as those who are loved and forgiven

    10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 
     

  • 1 John 4v10-11

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to love others as we have been loved by you. 

    10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 
    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. 
     

  • 1 John 4v12-

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to love others

    12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.