Daily Readings - 08/02/2026

^58:7 to share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor, to clothe the man you see to be naked and not turn from your own kin?

^58:8 Then will your light shine like the dawn and your wound be quickly healed over. Your integrity will go before you and the glory of Yahweh behind you.

^58:9 Cry, and Yahweh will answer; call, and he will say, ‘I am here’. If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist, the wicked word,

^58:10 if you give your bread to the hungry, and relief to the oppressed, your light will rise in the darkness, and your shadows become like noon.

^111:1 Alleluia!

^111:2 The works of Yahweh are sublime,

^111:3 Every work that he does is full of glory and majesty,

^111:4 He allows us to commemorate his marvels.

^111:5 he provides food for those who fear him;

^111:6 He reminds his people of the power that he wields

^111:7 All that he does is done in faithfulness and justice,

^111:8 ordained to last for ever and ever,

^111:9 Quickly he comes to his people’s rescue,

^111:10 This fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom,

^2:1 As for me, brothers, when I came to you, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy, but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed.

^2:2 During my stay with you, the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus, and only about him as the crucified Christ.

^2:3 Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great ‘fear and trembling'[*a]

^2:4 and in my speeches and the sermons that I gave, there were none of the arguments that belong to philosophy; only a demonstration of the power of the Spirit.

^2:5 And I did this so that your faith should not depend on human philosophy but on the power of God.

^5:13 ‘You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, what can make it salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled underfoot by men.

^5:14 ‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden.

^5:15 No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house.

^5:16 In the same way your light must shine in the sight of men, so that, seeing your good works, they may give the praise to your Father in heaven.