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.

^84:1 How I love your palace, Yahweh Sabaoth! How my soul yearns and pines for Yahweh’s courts!

^84:2 My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

^84:3 The sparrow has found its home at last, the swallow a nest for its young, your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my king and my God.

^84:4 Happy those who live in your house and can praise you all day long;

^84:5 and happy the pilgrims inspired by you with courage to make the Ascents! (pause)

^84:6 As they go through the Valley of the Weeper,[*a] they make it a place of springs, clothed in blessings by early rains.

^84:7 Thence they make their way from height to height, soon to be seen before God on Zion.

^84:8 Yahweh Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob;

^84:9 God our shield, now look on us and be kind to your anointed. (pause)

^84:10 A single day in your courts is worth more than a thousand elsewhere; merely to stand on the steps of God’s[*b] house is better than living with the wicked.

^84:11 For God is battlement and shield, conferring grace and glory; Yahweh withholds nothing good from those who walk without blame.

^84:12 Yahweh Sabaoth, happy the man who puts his trust in you!

^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.