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.

^112:1 Alleluia!

^112:2 Children of such a man will be powers on earth,

^112:3 There will be riches and wealth for his family,

^112:4 For the upright he shines like a lamp in the dark,

^112:5 Interest is not charged by this good man,

^112:6 Kept safe by virtue, he is ever steadfast,

^112:7 with constant heart, and confidence in Yahweh,

^112:8 Steadfast in heart he overcomes his fears:

^112:9 Quick to be generous, he gives to the poor,

^112:10 though this fills the wicked with fury

^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.