Daily Readings - 07/09/2026

^5:1 I have been told as an undoubted fact that one of you is living with his father’s wife.[*a] This is a case of sexual immorality among you that must be unparalleled even among pagans.

^5:2 How can you be so proud of yourselves? You should be in mourning. A man who does a thing like that ought to have been expelled from the community.

^5:3 Though I am far away in body, I am with you in spirit, and have already condemned the man who did this thing as if I were actually present.

^5:4 When you are assembled together in the name of the Lord Jesus, and I am spiritually present with you, then with the power of our Lord Jesus

^5:5 he is to be handed over to Satan so that his sensual body may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.

^5:6 The pride that you take in yourselves is hardly to your credit. You must know how even a small amount of yeast is enough to leaven all the dough,

^5:7 so get rid of all the old yeast, and make yourselves into a completely new batch of bread, unleavened as you are meant to be. Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed;

^5:8 let us celebrate the feast, then, by getting rid of all the old yeast of evil and wickedness, having only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.[*b]

^5:1 Yahweh, let my words come to your ears, spare a thought for my sighs.

^5:2 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God! I say this prayer to you,

^5:3 Yahweh, for at daybreak you listen for my voice. and at dawn I hold myself in readiness for you, I watch for you.

^5:4 You are not a God who is pleased with wickedness, you have no room for the wicked;

^5:5 boasters collapse under your scrutiny. You hate all evil men,

^5:6 liars you destroy; murderers and frauds Yahweh detests.

^5:7 But I, so great is your love, may come to your house, and before your holy Temple bow down in reverence to you.

^5:8 Yahweh, lead me in the path of your righteousness, for there are men lying in wait for me; make your way plain before me.

^5:9 Not a word from their lips can be trusted, deep within them lies ruin, their throats are yawning graves; they make their tongues so smooth!

^5:10 Pronounce them guilty, God, make their intrigues their own downfall! Hound them for their countless crimes, since they have rebelled against you.

^5:11 But joy for all who take shelter in you, endless shouts of joy! Since you protect them, they exult in you, those who love your name.

^5:12 It is you who bless the virtuous man, Yahweh; your favour is like a shield covering him.

^6:6 Now on another sabbath he went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

^6:7 The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure a man on the sabbath, hoping to find something to use against him.

^6:8 But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Stand up! Come out into the middle.’ And he came out and stood there.

^6:9 Then Jesus said to them, ‘I put it to you: is it against the law on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it?’

^6:10 Then he looked round at them all and said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand’. He did so, and his hand was better.

^6:11 But they were furious, and began to discuss the best way of dealing with Jesus.