Daily Readings - 09/05/2026

^16:1 From there he went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra. Here there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer; but his father was a Greek.

^16:2 The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy,

^16:3 and Paul, who wanted to have him as a travelling companion, had him circumcised. This was on account of the Jews in the locality where everyone knew his father was a Greek.

^16:4 As they visited one town after another, they passed on the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, with instructions to respect them.

^16:5 So the churches grew strong in the faith, as well as growing daily in numbers.

^16:6 They travelled through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been told by the Holy Spirit not to preach the word in Asia.

^16:7 When they reached the frontier of Mysia they thought to cross it into Bithynia, but as the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

^16:8 they went through Mysia and came down to Troas.

^16:9 One night Paul had a vision: a Macedonian appeared and appealed to him in these words, ‘Come across to Macedonia and help us’.

^16:10 Once he had seen this vision we lost no time in arranging a passage to Macedonia, convinced that God had called us to bring them the Good News.

^99:1 Yahweh is king, the nations tremble; he is enthroned on the cherubs, earth quakes;

^99:2 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high over all nations;

^99:3 may they praise your great and terrible name, ‘Holy is he,

^99:4 and mighty!’ You are a king who loves justice, insisting on honesty, justice, virtue, as you have done for Jacob.

^99:5 Let us extol Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool, ‘Holy is he!’

^99:6 Moses, Aaron one of his priests, and Samuel his votary, all invoked Yahweh: and he answered them.

^99:7 He talked with them in the pillar of cloud; they obeyed his decrees, the Law he gave them.

^99:8 Yahweh our God, you responded to them, a God of forgiveness for them, in spite of punishing their sins.

^99:9 Extol Yahweh our God, worship at his holy mountain, ‘Holy is Yahweh our God!’

^15:18 ‘If the world hates you, remember that it hated me before you.

^15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong to the world, because my choice withdrew you from the world, therefore the world hates you.

^15:20 Remember the words I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours as well.

^15:21 But it will be on my account that they will do all this, because they do not know the one who sent me.

^8:5 One of them was Philip who went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them.

^8:6 The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves.

^8:7 There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured.

^8:8 As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.

^8:14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

^8:15 and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit,

^8:16 for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.

^8:17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

^65:1 Praise is rightfully yours, God, in Zion. Vows to you must be fulfilled,

^65:2 for you answer prayer. All flesh must come to you

^65:3 with all its sins; though our faults overpower us, you blot them out.

^65:4 Happy the man you choose, whom you invite to live in your courts. Fill us with the good things of your house, of your holy Temple.

^65:5 Your righteousness repays us with marvels, God our saviour, hope of all the ends of the earth and the distant islands.

^65:6 Your strength holds the mountains up, such is the power that wraps you;

^65:7 you calm the clamour of the ocean, the clamour of its waves. The nations are in uproar,

^65:8 in panic those who live at the ends of the world, as your miracles bring shouts of joy to the portals of morning and evening.

^65:9 You visit the earth and water it, you load it with riches; God’s rivers brim with water to provide their grain.

^65:10 This is how you provide it: by drenching its furrows, by levelling its ridges, by softening it with showers, by blessing the first-fruits.

^65:11 You crown the year with your bounty, abundance flows wherever you pass;

^65:12 the desert pastures overflow, the hillsides are wrapped in joy,

^65:13 the meadows are dressed in flocks, the valleys are clothed in wheat, what shouts of joy, what singing!

^14:15 If you love me you will keep my commandments.

^14:16 I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate[*a] to be with you for ever,

^14:17 that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.

^14:18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you.

^14:19 In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me, because I live and you will live.

^14:20 On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

^14:21 Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.’