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.

^24:1 To Yahweh belong earth and all it holds, the world and all who live in it;

^24:2 he himself founded it on the ocean, based it firmly on the nether sea

^24:3 Who has the right to climb the mountain of Yahweh, who the right to stand in his holy place?

^24:4 He whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure, whose soul does not pay homage to worthless things and who never swears to a lie.

^24:5 The blessing of Yahweh is his, and Vindication from God his saviour.

^24:6 Such are the people who seek him, who seek your presence, God of Jacob! (pause)

^24:7 Gates, raise your arches, rise, you ancient doors, let the king of glory in!

^24:8 Who is this king of glory? Yahweh the strong, the valiant, Yahweh valiant in battle!

^24:9 Gates, raise your arches, rise you ancient doors, let the king of glory in!

^24:10 Who is this king of glory? He is Yahweh Sabaoth, King of glory, he! (pause)

^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.