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.

^146:1 Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, my soul!

^146:2 I mean to praise Yahweh all my life, I mean to sing to my God as long as I live.

^146:3 Do not put your trust in men in power, or in any mortal man – he cannot save,

^146:4 he yields his breath and goes back to the earth he came from, and on that day all his schemes perish.

^146:5 Happy the man who has the God of Jacob to help him, whose hope is fixed on Yahweh his God,

^146:6 maker of heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that these hold! Yahweh, forever faithful,

^146:7 gives justice to those denied it, gives food to the hungry, gives liberty to prisoners.

^146:10 Yahweh reigns for ever, your God, Zion, from age to age.

^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.