Daily Readings - 04/09/2026

^4:1 People must think of us as Christ’s servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God.

^4:2 What is expected of stewards is that each one should be found worthy of his trust.

^4:3 Not that it makes the slightest difference to me whether you, or indeed any human tribunal, find me worthy or not. I will not even pass judgement on myself.

^4:4 True, my conscience does not reproach me at all, but that does not prove that I am acquitted: the Lord alone is my judge.

^4:5 There must be no passing of premature judgement. Leave that until the Lord comes; he will light up all that is hidden in the dark and reveal the secret intentions of men’s hearts. Then will be the time for each one to have whatever praise he deserves, from God.

^36:1 The wicked man’s oracle is Sin in the depths of his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

^36:2 He sees himself with too flattering an eye to detect and detest his guilt;

^36:3 all he says tends to mischief and deceit, he has turned his back on wisdom. How best to work

^36:4 mischief he plots, even when he is in bed; he persists in his evil course, he never rejects what is bad.

^36:5 Your love, Yahweh, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds;

^36:6 your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgements like the mighty deep. Yahweh, protector of man and beast,

^36:7 how precious, God, your love! Hence the sons of men take shelter in the shadow of your wings.

^36:8 They feast on the bounty of your house, you give them drink from your river of pleasure;

^36:9 yes, with you is the fountain of life, by your light we see the light.

^36:10 Do not stop loving those who know you, or being righteous to upright hearts.

^36:11 Do not let arrogant feet crush me or wicked hands expel me.

^36:12 The evil men have fallen, there they lie, beaten down, never to stand again!

^5:33 They then said to him, ‘John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking’.

^5:34 Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

^5:35 But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.’

^5:36 He also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.

^5:37 ‘And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost.

^5:38 No; new wine must be put into fresh skins.

^5:39 And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. “The old is good” he says.’