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.

^103:1 Bless Yahweh, my soul, bless his holy name, all that is in me!

^103:2 Bless Yahweh, my soul, and remember all his kindnesses:

^103:3 in forgiving all your offences, in curing all your diseases,

^103:4 in redeeming your life from the Pit, in crowning you with love and tenderness,

^103:5 in filling your years with prosperity, in renewing your youth like an eagle’s[*a]

^103:6 Yahweh, who does what is right, is always on the side of the oppressed;

^103:7 he revealed his intentions to Moses, his prowess to the sons of Israel.

^103:8 Yahweh is tender and compassionate, slow to anger, most loving;

^103:9 his indignation does not last for ever, his resentment exists a short time only;

^103:10 he never treats us, never punishes us, as our guilt and our sins deserve.

^103:11 No less than the height of heaven over earth is the greatness of his love for those who fear him;

^103:12 he takes our sins farther away than the east is from the west.

^103:13 As tenderly as a father treats his children, so Yahweh treats those who fear him;

^103:14 he knows what we are made of, he remembers we are dust.

^103:15 Man lasts no longer than grass, no longer than a wild flower he lives,

^103:16 one gust of wind, and he is gone, never to be seen there again;

^103:17 yet Yahweh’s love for those who fear him lasts from all eternity and for ever, like his goodness to their children’s children,

^103:18 as long as they keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

^103:19 Yahweh has fixed his throne in the heavens, his empire is over all.

^103:20 Bless Yahweh, all his angels, heroes mighty to enforce his word, attentive to his word of command.

^103:21 Bless Yahweh, all his armies, servants to enforce his will.

^103:22 Bless Yahweh, all his creatures in every part of his empire! Bless Yahweh, my soul.

^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.’

^100:1 Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth,

^100:2 serve Yahweh gladly, come into his presence with songs of joy!

^100:3 Know that he, Yahweh, is God, he made us and we belong to him, we are his people, the flock that he pastures.

^100:4 Walk through his porticos giving thanks, enter his courts praising him, give thanks to him, bless his name!

^100:5 Yes, Yahweh is good, his love is everlasting, his faithfulness endures from age to age.

^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.