Daily Readings - 12/09/2026

^10:14 This is the reason, my dear brothers, why you must keep clear of idolatry.

^10:15 I say to you as sensible people: judge for yourselves what I am saying.

^10:16 The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ.

^10:17 The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.

^10:18 Look at the other Israel, the race, where those who eat the sacrifices are in communion with the altar.

^10:19 Does this mean that the food sacrificed to idols has a real value, or that the idol itself is real?

^10:20 Not at all. It simply means that the sacrifices that they offer they sacrifice to demons who are not God.[*c] I have no desire to see you in communion with demons.

^10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot take your share at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

^10:22 Do we want to make the Lord angry; are we stronger than he is?

^116:1 I love! For Yahweh listens to my entreaty;

^116:2 he bends down to listen to me when I call.

^116:3 Death’s cords were tightening round me, the nooses of Sheol; distress and anguish gripped me,

^116:4 I invoked the name of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh, rescue me!’

^116:5 Yahweh is righteous and merciful, our God is tenderhearted;

^116:6 Yahweh defends the simple, he saved me when I was brought to my knees.

^116:7 Return to your resting place, my soul, Yahweh has treated you kindly.

^116:8 He has rescued (me from death) my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

^116:9 (I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.)[*a]

^116:10 I have faith, even when I say, ‘I am completely crushed’.

^116:11 In my alarm, I declared, ‘No man can be relied on’.

^116:12 What return can I make to Yahweh for all his goodness to me?

^116:13 I will offer libations to my saviour, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:14 (I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present!)

^116:15 The death of the devout costs Yahweh dear.

^116:16 Yahweh, I am your servant, your servant, son of a pious mother, you undo my fetters.

^116:17 I will offer you the thanksgiving sacrifice, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.

^116:18 I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present,

^116:19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in your heart, Jerusalem.

^6:43 ‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit.

^6:44 For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles.

^6:45 A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.

^6:46 ‘Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord” and not do what I say?

^6:47 ‘Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them-I will show you what he is like.

^6:48 He is like the man who when he built his house dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built.

^6:49 But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man who built his house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!’

^27:30 Resentment and anger, these are foul things too, and both are found with the sinner.

^28:1 He who exacts vengeance will experience the vengeance of the Lord, who keeps strict account of sin.

^28:2 Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven.

^28:3 If a man nurses anger against another, can he then demand compassion from the Lord?

^28:4 Showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sins?

^28:5 Mere creature of flesh, he cherishes resentment; who will forgive him his sins?

^28:6 Remember the last things, and stop hating, remember dissolution and death, and live by the commandments.

^28:7 Remember the commandments, and do not bear your neighbour ill-will; remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook the offence.

^103:1 Bless Yahweh, my soul, bless his holy name, all that is in me!

^103:2 Bless Yahweh, my soul, and remember all his kindnesses:

^103:3 in forgiving all your offences, in curing all your diseases,

^103:4 in redeeming your life from the Pit, in crowning you with love and tenderness,

^103:5 in filling your years with prosperity, in renewing your youth like an eagle’s[*a]

^103:6 Yahweh, who does what is right, is always on the side of the oppressed;

^103:7 he revealed his intentions to Moses, his prowess to the sons of Israel.

^103:8 Yahweh is tender and compassionate, slow to anger, most loving;

^103:9 his indignation does not last for ever, his resentment exists a short time only;

^103:10 he never treats us, never punishes us, as our guilt and our sins deserve.

^103:11 No less than the height of heaven over earth is the greatness of his love for those who fear him;

^103:12 he takes our sins farther away than the east is from the west.

^103:13 As tenderly as a father treats his children, so Yahweh treats those who fear him;

^103:14 he knows what we are made of, he remembers we are dust.

^103:15 Man lasts no longer than grass, no longer than a wild flower he lives,

^103:16 one gust of wind, and he is gone, never to be seen there again;

^103:17 yet Yahweh’s love for those who fear him lasts from all eternity and for ever, like his goodness to their children’s children,

^103:18 as long as they keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

^103:19 Yahweh has fixed his throne in the heavens, his empire is over all.

^103:20 Bless Yahweh, all his angels, heroes mighty to enforce his word, attentive to his word of command.

^103:21 Bless Yahweh, all his armies, servants to enforce his will.

^103:22 Bless Yahweh, all his creatures in every part of his empire! Bless Yahweh, my soul.

^14:7 The life and death of each of us has its influence on others;

^14:8 if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord, so that alive or dead we belong to the Lord.

^14:9 This explains why Christ both died and came to life, it was so that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

^18:21 Then Peter went up to him and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’

^18:22 Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.

^18:23 ‘And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.

^18:24 When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents;[*c]

^18:25 but he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt.

^18:26 At this, the servant threw himself down at his master’s feet. “Give me time” he said “and I will pay the whole sum.”

^18:27 And the servant’s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt.

^18:28 Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him one hundred denarii;[*d] and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. “Pay what you owe me” he said.

^18:29 His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, “Give me time and I will pay you”.

^18:30 But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt.

^18:31 His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him.

^18:32 Then the master sent for him. “You wicked servant,” he said “I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me.

^18:33 Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you?”

^18:34 And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt.

^18:35 And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.’