Daily Readings - 28/12/2025

^3:2 for the Lord honours the father in his children, and upholds the rights of a mother over her sons.

^3:3 Whoever respects his father is atoning for his sins,

^3:4 he who honours his mother is like someone amassing a fortune.

^3:5 Whoever respects his father will be happy with children of his own, he shall be heard on the day when he prays.

^3:6 Long life comes to him who honours his father, he who sets his mother at ease is showing obedience to the Lord.

^3:12 My son, support your father in his old age, do not grieve him during his life.

^3:13 Even if his mind should fail, show him sympathy, do not despise him in your health and strength;

^3:14 for kindness to a father shall not be forgotten but will serve as reparation for your sins.

^127:1 If Yahweh does not build the house, in vain the masons toil; if Yahweh does not guard the city, in vain the sentries watch.

^127:2 In vain you get up earlier, and put off going to bed, sweating to make a living, since he provides for his beloved as they sleep.

^127:3 Sons are a bounty from Yahweh, he rewards with descendants:

^127:4 like the arrows in a hero’s hand are the sons you father when young.

^127:5 Happy the man who has filled his quiver with arrows of this sort; in dispute with his enemies at the gate,[*a] he will not be worsted.

^3:12 You are God’s chosen race, his saints; he loves you, and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience.

^3:13 Bear with one another; forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. The Lord has forgiven you; now you must do the same.

^3:14 Over all these clothes, to keep them together and complete them, put on love.

^3:15 And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together as parts of one body. Always be thankful.

^3:16 Let the message of Christ, in all its richness, find a home with you. Teach each other, and advise each other, in all wisdom. With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God;

^3:17 and never say or do anything except in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

^3:18 Wives, give way to your husbands, as you should in the Lord.

^3:19 Husbands, love your wives and treat them with gentleness.

^3:20 Children, be obedient to your parents always, because that is what will please the Lord.

^3:21 Parents, never drive your children to resentment or you will make them feel frustrated.

^2:13 After they had left, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and do away with him’.

^2:14 So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt,

^2:15 where he stayed until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: I called my son out of Egypt.[*e]

^2:19 After Herod’s death, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

^2:20 and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother with you and go back to the land of Israel, for those who wanted to kill the child are dead’.

^2:21 So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, went back to the land of Israel.

^2:22 But when he learnt that Archelaus[*g] had succeeded his father Herod as ruler of Judaea he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he left for the region of Galilee.[*h]

^2:23 There he settled in a town called Nazareth. In this way the words spoken through the prophets were to be fulfilled: ‘He will be called a Nazarene.’