Daily Bible Verses

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing. 

Many of us pray similar words of Jesus when we say, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”

When we pray this when we meet for Gathered Worship and in our personal prayers, sometimes we are not challenged by these words, but at other times we are struck how hard it is to forgive someone who has deeply offended and hurt us…. It is difficult to let go of the past and be present now to…

“Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” —Luke 23:34 

Author Megan McKenna considers Jesus’ ability to forgive and how we are called to the same:  

We were created to be the friends of Jesus, the friends of God, friends with one another…. And so, we begin this journey of becoming, this way of being in the world guided by Jesus’s own words and actions that we will repeat over and over again in all our relationships and in…

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,…

¹ You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, ² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. ³ We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. ⁴ But…

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
    You have held my right hand.
24 You will guide me with your counsel,
   …

Give thanks to Yahweh,^[a] for he is good,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
…

Heavenly father
lead us not into the temptation of taking it out on other people when we are suffering ourselves. 

³⁸ Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
³⁹ Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads 
^40 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

⁴ When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”
He said, “Here I am.”
⁵ He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.” 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today 

2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 

3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as…

Heavenly father
give us grace today

⁵⁰ Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

⁵¹ Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. ⁵² The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to celebrate all that is good in you and in the world.  

47 Save us, Yahweh, our God,
    gather us from among the nations,
    to give thanks to your holy…

Heavenly father
give us grace to direct our difficult questions to you today in a way that it honest and real

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
⁴⁶ About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?”…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to open our eyes to see your work in the world. 

² Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. ³ Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to truly love our close friends.

1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to know what to say and what not to say. 

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus said to him, “So you say.”
¹² When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he…

⁵ Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
    and don’t lean on your own understanding.
⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to show loving kindness to those in distress

44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
    when he heard their cry.
45 He remembered for them his covenant,
…

16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. 17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted. 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to help people to escape from anything which is oppressive

40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people.
    He abhorred his inheritance.
41 He gave them into the hand of the nations…

Heavenly father
lead us not into the temptation today of standing by while bad things happen

³⁵ When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots
 ³⁶ and they sat and watched him there. 
^37…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to go about the normal work of life knowing that you will guide us and be present with us

¹ Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, 
and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to rejoice in the company of others

12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, 
but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. …

Heavenly father
give us grace to be alert for the important things that take place today

³³ When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,” ³⁴ they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall.
 When he had tasted it, he would not drink. …

1 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
    for he has done marvellous things!
    His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not do anything destructive, particularly anything which harms the next generation

36 They served their idols,
    which became a snare to them.
37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to carry the burdens of others

³² As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to cry out to you in assurance that you hear our groanings. 

23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today be careful in our thinking and lead us not into the temptation of being led astray from the teaching of Christ

9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. 
He who…

Heavenly father
lead us not today into the temptation of mocking other people. 

²⁷ Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. 
²⁸ They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. 
²⁹ They…

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, 5 having…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to keep apart from all that desructive. 

32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
    so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
33 because they were rebellious against his…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to take responsibility, both for what we do and what we don’t do. 

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, 
he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, 
saying, “I am innocent of the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be a blessing to those who live as foreigners in a a foreign land 

21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. 
22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be deceived 

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. 
This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today not go along with the crowd.

²⁰ Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 
²¹ But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”
They said, “Barabbas!”
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be involved with anything which is destructive. 

28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
    and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pay attention to dreams, both our own and other people’s 

¹⁹ While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, 
“Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice hospitality

18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be obedient to the commandment to love

(5 … commandment … that we love one another. )
6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to choose the ways of Christ rather than that of a zealot

¹⁵ Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired. 
¹⁶ They had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas. 
¹⁷ When…

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to celebrate what we have been given and believe in you 

24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
    They didn’t believe his word,
25 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware of and respond to the needs of others

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be both truthful and loving. 

4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, 
even as we have been commanded by the Father. 

…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid personal involvement in buying items which would mean that we have blood on our hands 

⁶ The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, 
“It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.” 
^7…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to stand up for those who in a bad place

23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
    had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
    …

Heavenly Father
Pour down your grace, mercy, peace, truth and love on us today 

3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to worship anything of our own making

19 They made a calf in Horeb,
    and worshipped a molten image.
20 Thus they exchanged their glory
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to hear your voice, particularly when we have done wrong, so that we know that we are forgiven.

³ Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, 
and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 
^4…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into practice doing the good things that we notice others doing and not doing the wrong things that we notice others doing. 

13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. 
He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in truth

1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, 
2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to hear your voice, particularly when we are convinced that we are doing right, and we may be doing the opposite

¹ Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid envy

16 They envied Moses also in the camp,
    and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to our mistakes and mourn accordingly. 

73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
74 Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!”
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to refrain from overcoming evil with evil

11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. 
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 
12 He looked this way and that way, and…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek after truth, to know you and understand you

20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, 
that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth, whatever the consequences

69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
…

12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.’

13 They soon forgot his works.
    They didn’t wait for his counsel,
14     …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to withstand ridicule directed at ourselves, but also to share the pain of others when they are ridiculed.

67 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pass responsibility to others at the appropriate time. 

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 
She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today always to keep ourselves in you, and away from the evil one.  

18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, 
but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him. 
19 We know that we are of God,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to choose our words well, particularly in pressure situations. 

63 But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

64 Jesus said to him, …

3 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the…

7 Our fathers were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
    that he might make his mighty power known.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to know when to stay silent. 

But at last two false witnesses came forward 61 and said, 
“This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
62 …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be creative in the way in which we face difficult situations.

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, 
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to avoid turning away from you (to any idol) as our life is only found in you. 

16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, 
he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. 
There is a sin…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to speak the truth particularly when we are in conflict with others

59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death, 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two…

6 We have sinned with our fathers.
    We have committed iniquity.
    We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers didn’t understand your…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to have the courage to see things through to the end, whatever the consequences

57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, 
where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. 
58 But Peter followed…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow ourselves to be motivated by compassion. 

5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. 
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. 
She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to seek your will with all our hearts and minds, and in all our prayers

14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, 
that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 
15 And if we know that he listens to us,…