Daily Readings - 03/07/2026

^2:19 So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household.

^2:20 You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets[*c] for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone.

^2:21 As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord;

^2:22 and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit.

^116:1 I love! For Yahweh listens to my entreaty;

^116:2 he bends down to listen to me when I call.

^116:3 Death’s cords were tightening round me, the nooses of Sheol; distress and anguish gripped me,

^116:4 I invoked the name of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh, rescue me!’

^116:5 Yahweh is righteous and merciful, our God is tenderhearted;

^116:6 Yahweh defends the simple, he saved me when I was brought to my knees.

^116:7 Return to your resting place, my soul, Yahweh has treated you kindly.

^116:8 He has rescued (me from death) my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

^116:9 (I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.)[*a]

^116:10 I have faith, even when I say, ‘I am completely crushed’.

^116:11 In my alarm, I declared, ‘No man can be relied on’.

^116:12 What return can I make to Yahweh for all his goodness to me?

^116:13 I will offer libations to my saviour, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:14 (I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present!)

^116:15 The death of the devout costs Yahweh dear.

^116:16 Yahweh, I am your servant, your servant, son of a pious mother, you undo my fetters.

^116:17 I will offer you the thanksgiving sacrifice, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.

^116:18 I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present,

^116:19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in your heart, Jerusalem.

^20:24 Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

^20:25 When the disciples said, ‘We have seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe’.

^20:26 Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you’ he said.

^20:27 Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.’

^20:28 Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’

^20:29 Jesus said to him: ‘You believe because you can see me. Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’