Daily Readings - 05/09/2026

^4:6 Now in everything I have said here, brothers, I have taken Apollos and myself as an example (remember the maxim: ‘Keep to what is written’); it is not for you, so full of your own importance, to go taking sides for one man against another.

^4:7 In any case, brother, has anybody given you some special right? What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as though it were not?

^4:8 Is it that you have everything you want – that you are rich already, in possession of your kingdom, with us left outside? Indeed I wish you were really kings, and we could be kings with you!

^4:9 But instead, it seems to me, God has put us apostles at the end of his parade, with the men sentenced to death; it is true – we have been put on show in front of the whole universe, angels as well as men.

^4:10 Here we are, fools for the sake of Christ, while you are the learned men in Christ; we have no power, but you are influential; you are celebrities, we are nobodies.

^4:11 To this day, we go without food and drink and clothes; we are beaten and have no homes;

^4:12 we work for our living with our own hands. When we are cursed, we answer with a blessing; when we are hounded, we put up with it;

^4:13 we are insulted and we answer politely. We are treated as the offal of the world, still to this day, the scum of the earth.

^4:14 I am saying all this not just to make you ashamed but to bring you, as my dearest children, to your senses.

^4:15 You might have thousands of guardians in Christ, but not more than one father and it was I who begot you in Christ Jesus by preaching the Good News.

^145:1 I sing your praises, God my King, I bless your name for ever and ever,

^145:2 blessing you day after day, and praising your name for ever and ever.

^145:3 Can anyone measure the magnificence of Yahweh the great, and his inexpressible grandeur?

^145:4 Celebrating your acts of power, one age shall praise your doings to another.

^145:5 Oh, the splendour of your glory, your renown! I tell myself the story of your marvellous deeds.

^145:6 Men will proclaim your fearful power and I shall assert your greatness;

^145:7 they will celebrate your generous kindness and joyfully acclaim your righteousness.

^145:8 He, Yahweh, is merciful, tenderhearted, slow to anger, very loving,

^145:9 and universally kind; Yahweh’s tenderness embraces all his creatures.

^145:10 Yahweh, all your creatures thank you, and your faithful bless you.

^145:11 Kingly and glorious they proclaim you, they affirm your might.

^145:12 Let mankind learn your acts of power, and the majestic glory of your sovereignty!

^145:13 Your sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty, your empire lasts from age to age.

^145:14 Only stumble, and Yahweh at once supports you, if others bow you down, he will raise you up.

^145:15 Patiently all creatures look to you to feed them throughout the year;

^145:16 quick to satisfy every need, you feed them all with a generous hand.

^145:17 Righteous in all that he does, Yahweh acts only out of love,

^145:18 standing close to all who invoke him, close to all who invoke Yahweh faithfully.

^145:19 Those who fear him need only to ask to be answered; he hears their cries for help and saves them.

^145:20 Under his protection the pious are safe, but Yahweh is destruction to the wicked.

^145:21 Yahweh’s praise be ever in my mouth, and let every creature bless his holy name for ever and ever!

^6:1 Now one sabbath he happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them.

^6:2 Some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day?’

^6:3 Jesus answered them, ‘So you have not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry

^6:4 how he went into the house of God, took the loaves of offering and ate them and gave them to his followers, loaves which only the priests are allowed to eat?’

^6:5 And he said to them, ‘The Son of Man is master of the sabbath’.

^95:1 Come, let us praise Yahweh joyfully, acclaiming the Rock of our safety;

^95:2 let us come into his presence with thanksgiving, acclaiming him with music.

^95:3 For Yahweh is a great God, a greater King than all other gods;

^95:4 from depths of earth to mountain top everything comes under his rule;

^95:5 the sea belongs to him, he made it, so does the land, he shaped this too.

^95:6 Come in, let us bow, prostrate ourselves, and kneel in front of Yahweh our maker,

^95:7 for this is our God, and we are the people he pastures, the flock that he guides. If only you would listen to him today,

^95:8 ‘Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,[*a]

^95:9 when your ancestors challenged me, tested me, although they had seen what I could do.

^95:10 ‘For forty years that generation repelled me, until I said: How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways!

^95:11 And so, in anger, I swore that not one would reach the place of rest I had for them.’

^13:8 Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations.

^13:9 All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,[*a] and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself[*b]

^13:10 Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments.

^18:15 ‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, is between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

^18:16 If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge.

^18:17 But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community;[*b] and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a pagan or a tax collector.

^18:18 ‘I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.

^18:19 ‘I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven.

^18:20 For where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them.’