Daily Readings - 04/12/2025

^26:1 That day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; to guard us he has set wall and rampart about us.

^26:2 Open the gates! Let the upright nation come in, she, the faithful one

^26:3 whose mind is steadfast, who keeps the peace, because she trusts in you.

^26:4 Trust in Yahweh for ever, for Yahweh is the everlasting Rock;

^26:5 he has brought low those who lived high up in the steep citadel; he brings it down, brings it down to the ground, flings it down in the dust:

^26:6 the feet of the lowly, the footsteps of the poor trample on it.

^117:1 Praise Yahweh, all nations, extol him, all you peoples!

^117:2 For his love is strong, his faithfulness eternal.

^7:21 ‘It is not those who say to me, “Lord, Lord”, who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.

^7:24 ‘Therefore, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

^7:25 Rain came down, floods rose, gales blew and hurled themselves against that house, and it did not fall: it was founded on rock.

^7:26 But everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

^7:27 Rain came down, floods rose, gales blew and struck that house, and it fell; and what a fall it had!’