Daily Readings - 19/02/2026

^1:1 Happy the man who never follows the advice of the wicked, or loiters on the way that sinners take, or sits about with scoffers,

^1:2 but finds his pleasure in the Law of Yahweh, and murmurs his law day and night.

^1:3 He is like a tree that is planted by water streams, yielding its fruit in season, its leaves never fading;

^1:4 It is nothing like this with the wicked, nothing like this! No, these are like chaff blown away by the wind.

^1:5 The wicked will not stand firm when Judgement comes, nor sinners when the virtuous assemble.

^1:6 For Yahweh takes care of the way the virtuous go, but the way of the wicked is doomed.

^9:22 ‘The Son of Man’ he said ‘is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.’

^9:23 Then to all he said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.

^9:24 For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it.

^9:25 What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?