Daily Readings - 07/05/2026

^15:7 and after the discussion had gone on a long time, Peter stood up and addressed them.

^15:8 In fact God, who can read everyone’s heart, showed his approval of them by giving the Holy Spirit to them just as he had to us.

^15:9 God made no distinction between them and us, since he purified their hearts by faith.

^15:10 It would only provoke God’s anger now, surely, if you imposed on the disciples the very burden that neither we nor our ancestors were strong enough to support?

^15:11 Remember, we believe that we are saved in the same way as they are: through the grace of the Lord Jesus.’

^15:12 This silenced the entire assembly, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had worked through them among the pagans.

^15:13 When they had finished it was James who spoke. ‘My brothers,’ he said ‘listen to me.

^15:14 Simeon[*b] has described how God first arranged to enlist a people for his name out of the pagans.

^15:15 This is entirely in harmony with the words of the prophets, since the scriptures say:

^15:16 After that I shall return and rebuild the fallen House of David; I shall rebuild it from its ruins and restore it.

^15:17 Then the rest of mankind,all the pagans who are consecrated to my name, will look for the Lord, says the Lord who made this

^15:18 known so long ago.[*c]

^15:19 ‘I rule, then, that instead of making things more difficult for pagans who turn to God,

^15:20 we send them a letter telling them merely to abstain from anything polluted by idols,[*d] from fornication,[*e] from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

^15:21 For Moses has always had his preachers in every town, and is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath.’

^95:1 Come, let us praise Yahweh joyfully, acclaiming the Rock of our safety;

^95:2 let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, acclaiming him with music.

^95:3 For Yahweh is a great God, a greater King than all other gods;

^95:4 from depths of earth to mountain top everything comes under his rule;

^95:5 the sea belongs to him, he made it, so does the land, he shaped this too.

^95:6 Come in, let us bow, prostrate ourselves, and kneel in front of Yahweh our maker,

^95:7 for this is our God, and we are the people he pastures, the flock that he guides. If only you would listen to him today,

^95:8 ‘Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,[*a]

^95:9 when your ancestors challenged me, tested me, although they had seen what I could do.

^95:10 ‘For forty years that generation repelled me, until I said: How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways!

^95:11 And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for them.’

^15:9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love,

^15:10 If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

^15:11 I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.