Daily Readings - 02/01/2026

^2:22 The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ-he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son,

^2:23 because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well.

^2:24 Keep alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you were taught in the beginning is alive in you, you will live in the Son and in the Father;

^2:25 and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life.

^2:26 This is all that I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray.

^2:27 But you have not lost the anointing that he gave you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with truth, not with a lie, and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him.

^2:28 Live in Christ, then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not turn from him in shame at his coming.

^97:1 Yahweh is king! Let earth rejoice, the many isles be glad!

^97:2 Cloud and Darkness surround him, Righteousness and Justice support his throne.

^97:3 A fire precedes him as he goes, devouring all enemies around him;

^97:4 his lightning lights up the world, earth observes and quakes.

^97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the coming of the Master of the world;

^97:6 the heavens proclaim his righteousness, all nations see his glory.

^97:7 Shame on those who worship images, who take pride in their idols: bow down as he passes, all you gods!

^97:8 Zion hears and rejoices, the daughters of Judah exult at the rulings you utter, Yahweh.

^97:9 For you are Yahweh Most High over the world, far transcending all other gods.

^97:10 Yahweh loves those who repudiate evil, he guards the souls of the devout, rescuing them from the clutches of the wicked.

^97:11 Light dawns for the virtuous, and joy, for upright hearts.

^97:12 Rejoice in Yahweh, you virtuous, remember his holiness, and praise him!

^1:19 This is how John appeared as a witness. When the Jews[*c] sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’

^1:20 he not only declared, but he declared quite openly, ‘I am not the Christ’.

^1:21 ‘Well then,’ they asked ‘are you Elijah?'[*d] ‘I am not’ he said. ‘Are you the Prophet?'[*e] He answered, ‘No’.

^1:22 So they said to him, ‘Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?’

^1:23 So John said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied: a voice that cries in the wilderness: Make a straight way for the Lord’.[*f]

^1:24 Now these men had been sent by the Pharisees,

^1:25 and they put this further question to him, ‘Why are you baptising if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the prophet?’

^1:26 John replied, ‘I baptise with water; but there stands among you – unknown to you –

^1:27 the one who is coming after me; and I am not fit to undo his sandal-strap’.

^1:28 This happened at Bethany, on the far side of the Jordan, where John was baptising.