Daily Readings - 03/09/2026

^3:18 Make no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise.

^3:19 Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As scripture says: The Lord knows wise men’s thoughts: he knows how useless they are:[*a]

^3:20 or again: God is not convinced by the arguments of the wise[*b]

^3:21 So there is nothing to boast about in anything human:

^3:22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life and death, the present and the future, are all your servants;

^3:23 but you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God.

^23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

^23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

^23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

^23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

^23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

^5:1 Now he was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God,

^5:2 when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.-

^5:3 He got into one of the boats-it was Simon’s-and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

^5:4 When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch’.

^5:5 ‘Master,’ Simon replied ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’

^5:6 And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear,

^5:7 so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point.

^5:8 When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man’.

^5:9 For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made;

^5:10 so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch’.

^5:11 Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.