Daily Bible Verses

6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
7 I would flee far away and stay in the desert;
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”

²² they didn’t believe in God,
    and didn’t trust in his salvation.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above,
    and opened the doors of heaven.
²⁴ He rained down manna on them to eat,
    and gave them food from the sky.
²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels.
    He sent them food to the full.
^26 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to do your will today 

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 
²² Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name,
in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 
²³ Then I will tell them, ‘I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to not be afraid today, but to find comfort in you. 

¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
    Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
    and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
¹³ Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
    who stretched out the heavens,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace to love, trust and give thanks today

⁷ [your faith] may be found to result in praise, glory, and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 
⁸ whom, not having known, you love.
In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing,
you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, 
⁹ receiving the result of your…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be attentive to the actions of others, particularly when it is at odds with their words. 

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 
¹⁶ By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 
¹⁷ Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree…

⁹ Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹² “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ^13 …

¹⁷ Yet they still went on to sin against him,
    to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ They tempted God in their heart
    by asking food according to their desire.
¹⁹ Yes, they spoke against God.
    They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
²⁰ Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek today the way that leads to life, particularly when others do not.

¹³ “Enter in by the narrow gate;
for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction,
and there are many who enter in by it. 
¹⁴ How the gate is narrow and the way is restricted that leads to life!
There are few who find it.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to place today and tomorrow in your hands with joy, trusting in your power shown in the past. 

[the power of Yahweh existed before history and is attested to in mythical stories of monsters such as Rahab]

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!
    Awake, as in the days of old,
    the generations of ancient times.
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to rejoice in our salvation today, particularly when facing trials

⁵ [you] are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 
⁶ Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
you have been grieved in various trials, 
⁷ that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that…

Heavenly father
give us grace to desire good today, for ourselves and for others

⁹ Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 
¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 
¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!…

¹⁰ For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. ¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. ¹² You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You shall seek me, and find me…

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
    turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰ They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
    and refused to walk in his law.
¹¹ They forgot his doings,
    his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
¹² He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers,
    in…

Heavenly father
give us grace to ask, seek and knock today. 

⁷ “Ask, and it will be given you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you. 
⁸ For everyone who asks receives.
He who seeks finds.
To him who knocks it will be opened. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our hearts today to you so that we may know your righteousness and live accordingly. 

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
    and the earth will wear out like a garment.
Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
    but my salvation will be forever,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live in hope today, as those who have been born again in the Lord Jesus Christ

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again
to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 
⁴ to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be careful today and to be able to discern when to hold back in relationships

⁶ “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs,
neither throw your pearls before the pigs,
lest perhaps they trample them under their feet,
and turn and tear you to pieces.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth,…

¹ Hear my teaching, my people.
    Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth in a parable.
    I will utter dark sayings of old,
³ Which we have heard and known,
    and our fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not hide them from their children,
    telling to the generation to come the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see our own imperfections today and deal with them

³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye,
but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 
⁴ Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’
and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 
⁵ You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye,
and then you can see clearly…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be agents of your justice today, trusting in you  

⁴ “Listen to me, my people;
    and hear me, my nation,
for a law will go out from me,
    and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
⁵ My righteousness is near.
    My salvation has gone out,
    and my arms will…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to Jesus Christ today so that we may live in grace and peace

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion
in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 
² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
in sanctification of the Spirit,
that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood:
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be generous in the measure we use for those around us today

¹ “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 
² For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged;
and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 

1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know…

¹¹ I will remember Yah’s deeds;
    for I will remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will also meditate on all your work,
    and consider your doings.
¹³ Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
    What god is great like God?
¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders.
    You have made your strength known among the peoples.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek first your kingdom today.

³¹ “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ 
³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 
³³ But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to find our joy in you today

¹ “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
    you who seek Yahweh.
Look to the rock you were cut from,
    and to the quarry you were dug from.
² Look to Abraham your father,
    and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him,
    I…

Heavenly father
give us grace to help those who have wandered from the truth today. 

¹⁹ Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 
²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow you to clothe us today.

²⁷ “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? 
²⁸ Why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, 
²⁹ yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 
³⁰ But if God so clothes the…

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked advance against me
    to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
   …

⁴ You hold my eyelids open.
    I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
⁵ I have considered the days of old,
⁶ I consider in my own heart;
    my spirit diligently inquires:
⁷ “Will the Lord reject us forever?
    Will he be favourable no more?
⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to use money today in the context of serving you, rather than using you to serve money.

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You can’t serve both God and Mammon. 
²⁵ Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink;
nor yet for your body, what you will…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust in you today

¹⁰ Who among you fears Yahweh
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
He who walks in darkness
    and has no light,
let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
    and rely on his God.
[the alternative is to make our own fire, our own light which leads to lying down in sorrow]

¹¹ Behold, all you…

Heavenly father
give us grace to pray faithfully today

¹⁶ The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 
¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain,
and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. 
¹⁸ He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

Heavenly father
give us grace to see the light today

²² “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 
²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
    he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord watches over you—…

¹ My cry goes to God!
    Indeed, I cry to God for help,
    and for him to listen to me.
² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
    My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired.
    My soul refused to be comforted.
³ I remember God, and I groan.
    I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to treasure the things of heaven in our hearts today.  

¹⁹ “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 
²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; 
²¹ for where your treasure is,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live today as those who are confident in the help you give us

⁶ I gave my back to those who beat me,
    and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
    I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
⁷ For the Lord Yahweh will help me.
    Therefore I have not been confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a…

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…

Heavenly father
give us grace to focus on you when no one is looking (and when they are!)

¹⁶ “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces.
For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting.
Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. 
¹⁷ But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 
¹⁸ so that you are not seen by men to be…

1Unless the Lord builds the house, ♦
those who build it labour in vain.

2Unless the Lord keeps the city, ♦
the guard keeps watch in vain.

3It is in vain that you hasten to rise up early
and go so late to rest, eating the bread of toil, ♦
for he gives his beloved sleep. R

¹In Judah, God is known.
    His name is great in Israel.
² His tabernacle is also in Salem;
    His dwelling place in Zion.
³ There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
    the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
⁴ Glorious are you, and excellent,
    more than…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving today

¹⁴ “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 
¹⁵ But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Heavenly father
give us grace to …

⁹ Pray like this:

“‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
¹⁰ Let your Kingdom come.
    Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us today our daily bread.
¹² Forgive us our debts,
    as we also forgive our debtors.
¹³ Bring us not into temptation,
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to you so that we may be a blessing to those who are weary

⁴ The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
    that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.
He awakens morning by morning,
    he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
⁵ The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.
 …

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. 

¹ We give thanks to you, God.
    We give thanks, for your Name is near.
    Men tell about your wondrous works.

² When I choose the appointed time,
    I will judge blamelessly.
³ The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
    I firmly hold its pillars. 
⁴ I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”…

Heavenly father
give us grace to pray today, heart to heart

⁵ “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,
that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. 
⁶ But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door,
pray to your Father who is in secret; and your…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to you, and the trust in your power to save

[God’s people have suffered the consequences of their rebellion]

¹ Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?
    Or to which of my creditors have I sold you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
    and your mother was put away for your transgressions.…

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 give today without drawing attention to ourselves. 

¹ “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them,
or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 
² Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself,
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men.
Most…

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. 

¹ God, why have you rejected us forever?
⁴ Your adversaries have ⁸ said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”
    They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshipped.
⁹ We see no miraculous signs.
¹¹ Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
    Take it from your chest and consume them!

…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be like you in not just loving those who love us today

⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 
⁴⁷ If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 
⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live in hope, particularly when things look bleak. 

[Isaiah gives a message of hope to the Jews who had been taken into captivity by the Babylonians,
that the Persian empire would take the Babylonians into captivity and allow the Jews to return to Judea]

²⁴ Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
    or the lawful captives be delivered?
²⁵ But Yahweh says, “…

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…

Heavenly father
give us grace to love those who do not love us, so that we may be your children today. 

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’
⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you,
and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, 
⁴⁵ that you may be children of your…

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.’

²¹ For my soul was grieved.
    I was embittered in my heart.
²² I was so senseless and ignorant.
    I was a brute beast before you.
²³ Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
    You have held my right hand.
²⁴ You will guide me with your counsel,
    and afterwards receive me to glory.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to never repay evil for evil, but to confront it with goodness

³⁸ “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ 
³⁹ But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. 
⁴⁰ If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. 
⁴¹ Whoever…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to walk with you patiently today

²² The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
    and lift up my banner to the peoples.
They shall bring your sons in their bosom,
    and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
²³ Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
They…

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 be simple and clear in what we say today.

³³ “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones,
‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’
³⁴ but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; 
³⁵ nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
…

¹ Surely God is good to Israel,
    to those who are pure in heart.

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone.
    My steps had nearly slipped.
³ For I was envious of the arrogant,
    when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
⁴ For there are no struggles in their death,
    but their…

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid doing things which have the semblance of being right, but which we know to be wrong,
and give us discernment to know what to do when all the options open to us seem wrong. 
 

³¹ “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
³² but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress;…

Heavenly Father
open our eyes today so that we may see all the ways in which we are not alone by your grace, particularly when we feel alone

[A Message of Hope to God’s people who find themselves in a lonely place - in exile]

¹⁷ Your children hurry. [to return to you - because ….]
    Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
¹⁸ Lift up your eyes all around…

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…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be careful with our looking at and our thinking about other people today,
and give us grace to allow evil no place in our minds and bodies

²⁷ “You have heard that it was said,  ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
²⁸ but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. 
²⁹ If your right eye…

¹⁶ Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land.
    Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
    Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
¹⁷ His name endures forever.
    His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
    All nations will call him blessed.
¹⁸ Praise be to…

Heavenly father
give us grace to go out of our way to be reconciled to others today, remembering that we are never the completely innocent party

²³ “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar,
and there remember that your brother has anything against you, 
²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way.
First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust your love even when we feel forgotten.

 ¹⁴ But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
    and the Lord has forgotten me.”
¹⁵ “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you!
¹⁶ Behold, I…

^{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 refrain today from labelling others as fools 

²¹ “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgement.’ ²² But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause  will be in danger of the judgement. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’  will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You…