Daily Readings - 11/09/2026

^9:16 Not that I do boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it!

^9:17 If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands.

^9:18 Do you know what my reward is? It is this in my preaching, to be able to offer the Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the gospel gives me.

^9:19 So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could.

^9:22 For the weak I made myself weak. I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost;

^9:23 and I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.

^9:24 All the runners at the stadium are trying to win, but only one of them gets the prize. You must run in the same way, meaning to win.

^9:25 All the fighters at the games go into strict training; they do this just to win a wreath that will wither away, but we do it for a wreath that will never wither.

^9:26 That is how I run, intent on winning; that is how I fight, not beating the air.

^9:27 I treat my body hard and make it obey me, for, having been an announcer myself, I should not want to be disqualified.

^83:1 God, do not remain silent; do not be unmoved, O God, or unresponsive!

^83:2 See how your enemies are stirring, see how those who hate you rear their heads.

^83:3 Weaving a plot against your people, conspiring against those you protect, .

^83:4 they say, ‘Come, we will finish them as a nation, the name of Israel shall be forgotten!’

^83:5 Unanimous in their plot, they seal a treaty against you:

^83:6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

^83:7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians;

^83:8 and now Assur[*a] has joined them to reinforce the sons of Lot. (pause)

^83:9 Treat them like Midian and Sisera, like Jabin at the river Kishon,

^83:10 wiped out at En-dor, they served to dung the ground.

^83:11 Treat their generals like Oreb and Zeeb, their commanders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

^83:12 those who once said, ‘Let us take for ourselves possession of the Dwellings of God!’

^83:13 My God, bowl them along like tumbleweed, like chaff at the mercy of the wind;

^83:14 as fire devours the forest, as the flame licks up the mountains,

^83:15 drive them on with your whirlwind, rout them with your tornado;

^83:16 cover their faces with shame, until they seek your name, Yahweh.

^83:17 Shame and panic be always theirs, disgrace and death;

^83:18 and let them know this: you alone bear the name Yahweh, Most High over the whole world.

^6:39 He also told a parable to them, ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit?

^6:40 The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher.

^6:41 Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own?

^6:42 How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye”, when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.