Daily Bible Verses

So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’  

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, ‘I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession…

11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus travelled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, ‘Jesus, Master, have pity on us!’
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Richard Rohr reminds us that when we receive everything as a gift, we can live gratefully, allowing the energies of life and love to flow through us for the benefit of the whole. 
In Philippians 4:6–7, Paul sums up an entire theology of prayer practice in very concise form: “Pray with gratitude, and the peace of Christ, which is bigger than knowledge or understanding, will guard both your mind and your heart in Christ Jesus.” From that place we stop making…

35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36 But I tell you that…

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Job said:
‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
    and naked I shall depart.
The …

 And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18v3)

Learning to see beyond our biases is essential for the ongoing conversion of faith.  

We need self-knowledge and the crucial need to recognize 
(1) when we are in denial about our own shadow and capacity for illusion; 
(2) our capacity to project our own fears…

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-11-17-eleven-plus-spirituality-r25 

22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a…

She [Abigail] fell at his feet and said: ‘Upon me alone, my lord, be the guilt; please let your servant speak in your ears and hear the words of your servant. My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured fellow, Nabal… Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, since the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal.  1 Samuel 25:24–26

Ever…

“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him”.  James 1:5

“Lead us not into temptation” (Matthew 6:13)

In the search of wisdom we pray that we would not be led into the following temptations: 

Confirmation Bias: We judge new ideas based on the ease with which they fit in with and confirm…

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

I cry at Christmas adverts.
Wait! Can’t I see that they are weapons-grade emotional manipulation, deployed by the capitalist superstructure to manipulate me into spending money, in turn fuelling a system that not only exploits me, but the very cultural heritage it purports to celebrate?
I…

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1 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 ‘See I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur,…

Jesus looked at him and loved him. (Mark 10:21)

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Now David had said, ‘Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, but he has returned me evil for good. God do so to David and more also if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.’   1 Samuel 25:21–22

Have you ever just lost it? Gone Vesuvian over some relatively small thing? The failure of a colleague to include an appendix in a document? Or falling over the…

The Dignity of Attention - Richard Rohr 
Nature itself is the primary Bible. As Paul says in Romans 1:20, “What can be known about God is perfectly plain, for God has made it plain. Ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and deity is there for the mind to see in all the things that God has created.” The world itself is the primary locus of the sacred and provides all the metaphors that the soul needs for its growth. 
Thomas Aquinas, the…

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‘“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. (Acts 2:17)

Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is sick.’
 
When he heard this, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be…

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,  since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (COLOSSIANS 3:23–24)

In these verses, Paul instructs the Colossians to work in all contexts with all their heart. Our culture presents hard work as the endless grind, morning routines that start before the sun is awake…

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
    He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
    he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,…

Love your neighbour as yourself. (Luke 10:27)

You’ve made it to the airport. The holiday was great, but now you need to be home with a big mug of Yorkshire tea, ASAP. But as you pass duty-free you hit chaos: no one’s boarding and they’re suffering in the heat and crush.

How would you respond? Anger, resignation, despair?

Devonshire mum Faye made a different choice. Stuck in a dense crowd at Corfu airport for over an hour, Faye noticed upset children and an…

Blessed are you when people revile you, persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.  Matthew 5:11

In parts of the world, the practice of Christianity is illegal, churches are bombed, and children are hounded. To be aware of this persecution should prompt his followers to risk their reputations to make peace when others…

6: Get up, go ahead, do something, move, you who are hungry and thirsty for justice, for you shall be satisfied.  
9: Get up, go ahead, do something, move, you peacemakers, for you shall be called children of God. 
 

Elias Chacour is a Palestinian Arab-Israeli and a former archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic church in Palestine. At one point in his ministry, Chacour went against the orders of local authorities to build a secondary school to educate the…

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 who, being in very nature^[a…

17 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, …