Daily Readings - 27/08/2026

^1:1 I, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings

^1:2 to the church of God in Corinth, to the holy people of Jesus Christ, who are called to take their place among all the saints everywhere who pray to our Lord Jesus Christ; for he is their Lord no less than ours.

^1:3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ send you grace and peace.

^1:4 I never stop thanking God for all the graces you have received through Jesus Christ.

^1:5 I thank him that you have been enriched in so many ways, especially in your teachers and preachers;

^1:6 the witness to Christ has indeed been strong among you

^1:7 so that you will not be without any of the gifts of the Spirit while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed;

^1:8 and he will keep you steady and without blame until the last day, the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,

^1:9 because God by calling you has joined you to his Son, Jesus Christ; and God is faithful.

^144:1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

^144:2 my love, my bastion, my citadel, my saviour, I shelter behind him, my shield, he makes the nations submit to me.

^144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you should notice him? A human being, that you should think about him?

^144:4 Man’s life, a mere puff of wind, his days, as fugitive as shadows.

^144:5 Yahweh, lower your heavens, come down to us! Touch the mountains, make them smoke,

^144:6 flash your lightning – scatter them, shoot your arrows – rout them.

^144:7 Reach down your hand from above, save me, rescue me from deep waters, from the power of aliens

^144:8 who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:9 God, I have made a new song for you to be played on the ten-string lyre,

^144:10 you who give victory to kings and safety to your servant David. From peril of sword

^144:11 save me, rescue me from the power of aliens who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:12 May our sons be like plants growing strong from their earliest days, our daughters like corner-statues,[*a] carvings fit for a palace;

^144:13 may our barns overflow with every possible crop, may the sheep in our fields be counted in their thousands and tens of thousands,

^144:14 may our cattle be stout and strong; and may there be an end of raids and exile, and of panic in our streets.

^144:15 Happy the nation of whom this is true, happy the nation whose God is Yahweh!

^24:42 ‘So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming.

^24:43 You may be quite sure of this that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house.

^24:44 Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

^24:45 ‘What sort of servant, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to give them their food at the proper time?

^24:46 Happy that servant if his master’s arrival finds him at this employment.

^24:47 I tell you solemnly, he will place him over everything he owns.

^24:48 But as for the dishonest servant who says to himself, “My master is taking his time”,

^24:49 and sets about beating his fellow servants and eating and drinking with drunkards,

^24:50 his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.

^24:51 The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.