Daily Bible Versehttps://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/Psalm 80https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3652https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3652<div class="ExternalClass030E14366BC04A8CBBD5172586BAEE27"><p>​<sup>1</sup>Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth <sup>2</sup>before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir up your might, and come to save us! <sup>3</sup>Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. <sup>4</sup>O Lord GOD of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?<br></p></div>04/29/2024John 15:1-8https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3651https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3651<div class="ExternalClass81EBBB36A0CC4121BBA1BB3C35D196ED"><p>​<sup>1</sup>I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. <sup>2</sup>He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. <sup>3</sup>You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. <sup>4</sup>Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.<br></p></div>04/28/2024Mark 4:30-32https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3650https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3650<div class="ExternalClass4DA0C03DF55C415499BFA8D0164EF021"><p>​<sup>30</sup>He also said, &quot;With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? <sup>31</sup>It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; <sup>32</sup>yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.&quot;<br></p></div>04/27/2024Amos 8:11-13https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3649https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3649<div class="ExternalClass0C884E183B3B4BD99AD1A5EADCEC6611"><p>​<sup>11</sup>The time is surely coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. <sup>12</sup>They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. <sup>13</sup>In that day the beautiful young women and the young men shall faint for thirst.<br></p></div>04/26/2024Mark 1:1-15https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3648https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3648<div class="ExternalClassDB9864035C6041018E8FB9304A13A83C"><p>​<sup>1</sup>The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. <sup>2</sup>As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, &quot;See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; <sup>3</sup>the voice of one crying out in the wilderness&#58; 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'&quot;<br></p></div>04/25/2024Mark 14:26-31https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3647https://elca.org/Faith/DailyBible/3647<div class="ExternalClass9F7013E931B7420FBBD8D1FB59F736FC"><p>​<sup>28</sup>But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.&quot; <sup>29</sup>Peter said to him, &quot;Even though all become deserters, I will not.&quot; <sup>30</sup>Jesus said to him, &quot;Truly I tell you, this day, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.&quot; <sup>31</sup>But he said vehemently, &quot;Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.&quot; And all of them said the same.<br></p></div>04/24/2024