Daily Readings - 13/06/2026

^5:14 And this is because the love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all, then all men should be dead;

^5:15 and the reason he died for all was so that living men should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life for them.

^5:16 From now onwards, therefore, we do not judge anyone by the standards of the flesh. Even if we did once know Christ in the flesh, that is not how we know him now.

^5:17 And for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here.

^5:18 It is all God’s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation.

^5:19 In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.

^5:20 So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God.

^5:21 For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.

^102:1 Yahweh, hear my prayer, let my cry for help reach you;

^102:2 do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble; bend down to listen to me, when I call, be quick to answer me!

^102:3 For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones smouldering like logs,

^102:4 my heart shrivelling like scorched grass and my appetite has gone;

^102:5 whenever I heave a sigh, my bones stick through my skin.

^102:6 I live in a desert like the pelican, in a ruin like the screech owl,

^102:7 I stay awake, lamenting like a lone bird on the roof;

^102:8 my enemies insult me all day long, those who used to praise me now use me as a curse.

^102:9 Ashes are the bread I eat, what I drink I lace with tears,

^102:10 under your furious anger, since you only picked me up to throw me down;

^102:11 my days dwindle away like a shadow, I am as dry as hay.

^102:12 Whereas, Yahweh, you remain for ever; each generation in turn remembers you!

^102:13 Rise, take pity on Zion! – the time has come to have mercy on her, the hour has come;

^102:14 for your servants prize her stones and are moved to pity by her dust.

^102:15 Then will the nations fear the name of Yahweh and all kings on earth respect your glory;

^102:16 when Yahweh builds Zion anew, he will be seen in his glory;

^102:17 he will answer the prayer of the abandoned, he will not scorn their petitions.

^102:18 Put this on record for the next generation, so that a race still to be born can praise God:

^102:19 Yahweh has leaned down from the heights of his sanctuary, has looked down at earth from heaven,

^102:20 to hear the sighing of the captive, and to set free those doomed to die.

^102:28 Your servants’ sons will have a permanent home, and their descendants be in your presence always,

^102:21 to proclaim the name of Yahweh in Zion, his praise in Jerusalem;

^102:22 nations and kingdoms will be united and offer worship to Yahweh together.

^102:25 Aeons ago, you laid earth’s foundations, the heavens are the work of your hands;

^102:26 all will vanish, though you remain, all wear out like a garment, like clothes that need changing you will change them;

^102:27 but yourself, you never change, and your years are unending.

^2:41 Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.

^2:42 When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual.

^2:43 When they were on their way home after the feast, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it.

^2:44 They assumed he was with the caravan, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances.

^2:45 When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere.

^2:46 Three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors, listening to them, and asking them questions;

^2:47 and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies.

^2:48 They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have, you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for

^2:49 ‘Why were you looking for me?’ he replied ‘Did you not know that I must be busy with my Father’s affairs?’

^2:50 But they did not understand what he meant.

^2:51 He then went down with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart.

^19:2 From Rephidim they set out again; and when they reached the wilderness of Sinai, there in the wilderness they pitched their camp; there facing the mountain Israel pitched camp.

^19:3 Moses then went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, ‘Say this to the House of Jacob, declare this to the sons of Israel,

^19:4 “You yourselves have seen what I did with the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagle’s wings and brought you to myself.

^19:5 From this you know that now, if you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all the nations shall be my very own for all the earth is mine.

^19:6 I will count you a kingdom of priests, a consecrated nation.” Those are the words you are to speak to the sons of Israel.’

^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!’

^5:6 We were still helpless when at his appointed moment Christ died for sinful men.

^5:7 It is not easy to die even for a good man – though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die –

^5:8 but what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

^5:9 Having died to make us righteous, is it likely that he would now fail to save us from God’s anger?

^5:10 When we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, we were still enemies; now that we have been reconciled, surely we may count on being saved by the life of his Son?

^5:11 Not merely because we have been reconciled but because we are filled with joyful trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have already gained our reconciliation.

^9:36 And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

^9:37 Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest’.

^10:1 He summoned his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness.

^10:2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

^10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

^10:4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, the one who was to betray him.

^10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them as follows: ‘Do not turn your steps to pagan territory, and do not enter any Samaritan town;

^10:6 go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

^10:7 And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.

^10:8 Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. You received without charge, give without charge.