Daily Readings - 04/01/2026

^24:1 Wisdom speaks her own praises, in the midst of her people she glories in herself.

^24:2 She opens her mouth in the assembly of the Most High, she glories in herself in the presence of the Mighty One;

^24:8 Then the creator of all things instructed me, and he who created me fixed a place for my tent. He said, “Pitch your tent in Jacob, make Israel your inheritance”.

^24:9 From eternity, in the beginning, he created me, and for eternity I shall remain.

^24:10 I ministered before him in the holy tabernacle, and thus was I established on Zion.

^24:11 In the beloved city he has given me rest, and in Jerusalem I wield my authority.

^24:12 I have taken root in a privileged people, in the Lord’s property, in his inheritance.

^147:1 Praise Yahweh – it is good to sing in honour of our God – sweet is his praise.

^147:2 Yahweh, Restorer of Jerusalem! He brought back Israel’s exiles,

^147:3 healing their broken hearts, and binding up their wounds.

^147:4 He decides the number of the stars and gives each of them a name;

^147:5 our Lord is great, all-powerful, of infinite understanding.

^147:6 Yahweh, who lifts up the humble, humbles the wicked to the ground.

^147:7 Sing to Yahweh in gratitude, play the lyre for our God:

^147:8 who covers the heavens with clouds, to provide the earth with rain, to produce fresh grass on the hillsides and the plants that are needed by man,

^147:9 who gives their food to the cattle and to the young ravens when they cry.

^147:10 The strength of the war horse means nothing to him, it is not infantry that interests him.

^147:11 Yahweh is interested only in those who fear him, in those who rely on his love.

^147:12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God:

^147:13 for strengthening the bars of your gates, for blessing your citizens,

^147:14 for granting you peace on your frontiers, for feeding you on the finest wheat.

^147:15 He gives an order; his word flashes to earth:

^147:16 to spread snow like a blanket, to strew hoarfrost like ashes,

^147:17 to drop ice like breadcrumbs, and when the cold is unbearable,

^147:18 he sends his word to bring the thaw and warm wind to melt the snow.

^147:19 He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and rulings to Israel:

^147:20 he never does this for other nations, he never reveals his rulings to them.

^1:3 Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ.

^1:4 Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us in Christ, to be holy and spotless, and to live through love in his presence,

^1:5 determining that we should become his adopted sons, through Jesus Christ for his own kind purposes,

^1:6 to make us praise the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved,

^1:15 That will explain why I, having once heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love that you show towards all the saints,

^1:16 have never failed to remember you in my prayers and to thank God for you.

^1:17 May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed, to bring you to full knowledge of him.

^1:18 May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you, what rich glories he has promised the saints will inherit

^1:1 In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

^1:2 He was with God in the beginning.

^1:3 Through him all things came to be, not one thing had its being but through him.

^1:4 All that came to be had life in him and that life was the light of men,

^1:5 a light that shines in the dark, a light that darkness could not overpower[*a].

^1:6 A man came, sent by God. His name was John.

^1:7 He came as a witness, as a witness to speak for the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

^1:8 He was not the light, only a witness to speak for the light.

^1:9 The Word was the true light that enlightens all men; and he was coming into the world.

^1:10 He was in the world that had its being through him, and the world did not know him.

^1:11 He came to his own domain and his own people did not accept him.

^1:12 But to all who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to all who believe in the name of him

^1:13 who was born not out of human stock or urge of the flesh or will of man but of God himself.

^1:14 The Word was made flesh, he lived among us[*b], and we saw his glory, the glory that is his as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

^1:15 John appears as his witness. He proclaims: ‘This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me ranks before me because he existed before me’.

^1:16 Indeed, from his fulness we have, all of us, received – yes, grace in return for grace,

^1:17 since, though the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

^1:18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who is nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.