Daily Readings - 11/05/2026

^16:11 Sailing from Troas we made a straight run for Samothrace; the next day for Neapolis,

^16:12 and from there for Philippi, a Roman colony and the principal city of that particular district of Macedonia. After a few days in this city

^16:13 we went along the river outside the gates as it was the sabbath and this was a customary place for prayer.[*a] We sat down and preached to the women who had come to the meeting.

^16:14 One of these women was called Lydia, a devout woman from the town of Thyatira who was in the purple-dye trade. She listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to accept what Paul was saying.

^16:15 After she and her household had been baptised she sent us an invitation: ‘If you really think me a true believer in the Lord,’ she said ‘come and stay with us’; and she would take no refusal.

^149:1 Alleluia! Sing Yahweh a new song, let the congregation of the faithful sing his praise!

^149:2 Let Israel rejoice in his maker, and Zion’s children exult in their King;

^149:3 let them dance in praise of his name, playing to him on strings and drums!

^149:4 For Yahweh has been kind to his people, conferring victory on us who are weak;

^149:5 the faithful exult in triumph, prostrate before God they acclaim him

^149:6 with panegyrics on their lips, and a two-edged sword in their hands

^149:7 to exact vengeance on the pagans, to inflict punishment on the heathen,

^149:8 to shackle their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters,

^149:9 to execute the preordained sentence.[*a] Thus gloriously are the faithful rewarded!

^15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, he will be my witness.

^15:27 And you too will be witnesses, because you have been with me from the outset.

^16:1 ‘I have told you all this that your faith may not be shaken.

^16:2 They will expel you from the synagogues, and indeed the hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing a holy duty for God.

^16:3 They will do these things because they have never known either the Father or myself.

^16:4 But I have told you all this, so that when the time for it comes you may remember that I told you.