Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first the kingdom of God (rather than power and status) 

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. 
²¹ He said to her, “What do you want?”
She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
 

    but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
    They will mount up with wings like eagles.
    They will run, and not be weary.
    They will walk, and not faint.

⁷ Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
    who boast in their idols.
    Worship him, all you gods
⁸ Zion heard and was glad.
    The daughters of Judah rejoiced
    because of your judgements, Yahweh.
⁹ For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
    You are exalted far above all gods.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to difficulties in life, in the same way that Jesus did. 

¹⁷ As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, 
¹⁸ “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, 
¹⁹ and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to not give up on people who have strayed from the right path, just as you don’t give up on people. 

⁸ Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹ I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be strong because we know you, and know that our sins are forgiven

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
I write to you, little children, because you know the…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid envy and embrace generosity 

⁸ “When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ 
⁹ “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. 
¹⁰ When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise…

⁷ Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward…

¹ Yahweh reigns!
    Let the earth rejoice!
    Let the multitude of islands be glad!
² Clouds and darkness are around him.
    Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³ A fire goes before him,
    and burns up his adversaries on every side.
⁴ His lightning lights up…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to work in your vineyard, trusting you to give us what we need. 

¹ “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household,
who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. 
² When he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 
³ He went out about the third hour, and saw others…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to think as you think, and to be humble

¹ “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
    I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
    I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
² I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
    who walk in a way that is not good, after their own…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware within ourselves of hate, and what leads to hate, and to turn away from it. 

⁷ Brothers, I write no new commandment to you,
but an old commandment which you had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 
⁸ Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you;
because the darkness is passing away and the true…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to see the life of kingdom of heaven for what it is and leave everything else. 

²⁷ Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
²⁸ Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me,
in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory,
you also will sit on twelve thrones,…

¹³ Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.”
    The world is also established.
    It can’t be moved.
    He will judge the peoples with equity.
¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
    Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
¹²     Let the field and all that is in it exult!…

Heavenly father
give us grace today bring to you any situation in which is seems impossible to live as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

²³ Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty. 
²⁴ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
²⁵ When the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who have been made in your image. 

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
    We are the clay and you our potter.
    We all are the work of your hand.
⁹ Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
    Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
    we are all your people.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live and walk just as Jesus did, following your commandments. 

³ This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 
⁴ One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. 
⁵ But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: 
^6…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to love others in our thinking, in our words and in our actions.  

¹⁷ Jesus said to him, “If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
¹⁸ He said to him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ¹⁹ ‘Honour your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall…

5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 …

⁷ Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations,
    ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
⁸ Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
    Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
⁹ Worship Yahweh in holy array.
    Tremble before him, all the earth.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to focus on goodness, and so to focus on you

¹⁶ Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
¹⁷ He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call on your name, to stir ourselves up and take hold of you

⁵ Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
    We have been in sin for a long time.
    Shall we be saved?
⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
    and…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek always what is good and right. 

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counsellor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. ² And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today learn from and care for children today

¹³ Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. 
¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me;
for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” 
¹⁵ He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

¹ Sing to Yahweh a new song!
    Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
² Sing to Yahweh!
    Bless his name!
    Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
³ Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous works among all the peoples.
⁴ For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised!
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and trust you for what that looks like in practice. 

¹⁰ His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
¹¹ But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. 
¹² For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb,  […

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to joyfully do what is right, and to remember you in all our ways, so that your name may be known to others. 

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens,
    that you would come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence.
² As when fire kindles the brushwood,
    and the fire causes the water to boil;
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to discern what sins we should confess and be cleansed from today

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
¹⁰ If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Heavenly father
give us grace today not to have a hard heart.

⁷ They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”
⁸ He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 
⁹ I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries…

1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus…

⁶ Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.
    Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
⁷     for he is our God.
We are the people of his pasture,
    and the sheep in his care.
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
⁸     Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
    as in the day of Massah…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to discern what tears apart that which is joined together by God, and not do it. 

³ Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
⁴ He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
⁵ and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call out to you for help when we need help

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
    The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
[We need your care, Lord, and it seems to be lacking]

¹⁶ For you are our Father,
    though…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live today in fellowship with you and our neighbours

Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 
⁴ And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
⁵ This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 
⁶ If we say that we have fellowship…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be compassionate today to those who are not well. 

¹ When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. 
² Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God.
    I will be exalted among the nations.
    I will be exalted in the earth.”
¹¹ Yahweh of Armies is with us.
    The God of Jacob is our refuge. 

¹ Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
    Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
² Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
    Let’s extol him with songs!
³ For Yahweh is a great God,
    a great King above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
    The heights of the mountains are also his…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to forgive others from our hearts

²⁸ “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, 
and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
²⁹ “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ 
³⁰ He would not, but went and cast him into…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to remember your love and power shown when you brought your people out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and know that the same spirit is with us today. 

¹¹ “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
    Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to open our hearts and minds to life in all its fullness, and communicate this to others. 

1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,
that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life 
² (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you
the life, the eternal life…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to joyfully receive your mercy 

²³ Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 
²⁴ When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 
²⁵ But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.…

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. 
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
    which brings about mischief by statute?
²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
    and condemn the innocent blood.
²² But Yahweh has been my high tower,
    my God, the rock of my refuge.
²³ He has brought on them their…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be forgiving, particularly to those who show no sign of real repentance. 

²¹ Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
²² Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak in word and deed about your love

⁷ I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
    and the praises of Yahweh,
    according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
    which he has given to them according to his mercies,
    and according to the multitude…

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 today to release others, in the name of Jesus, from all that we hold against them. 

¹⁸ Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven,
and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. 
¹⁹ Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask,
it will be done for them by my…

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
    Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless Yahweh had been my help,
    my soul would have soon lived in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
    Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to deal appropriately with those who hurt us.  

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you,
go, show him his fault between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. 
¹⁶ But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you,
that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to…