Daily Readings - 18/09/2026

^15:12 Now if Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead?

^15:13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have been raised,

^15:14 and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing it is useless;

^15:15 indeed, we are shown up as witnesses who have committed perjury before God, because we swore in evidence before God that he had raised Christ to life.

^15:16 For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised,

^15:17 and if Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins.

^15:18 And what is more serious, all who have died in Christ have perished.

^15:19 If our hope in Christ has been for this life only, we are the most unfortunate of all people.

^15:20 But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.

^16:1 Look after me, God, I take shelter in you.

^16:2 To Yahweh you say, ‘My Lord, you are my fortune, nothing else but you’,

^16:3 yet to those pagan deities in the land, ‘My princes, all my pleasure is in you’.

^16:4 Their idols teem, after these they run: shall I pour their blood-libations? – not I! Take their names on my lips ? – never!

^16:5 Yahweh, my heritage, my cup, you, and you only, hold my lot secure;

^16:6 the measuring line marks out delightful places for me, for me the heritage is superb indeed.

^16:7 I bless Yahweh, who is my counsellor, and in the night my inmost self instructs me

^16:8 I keep Yahweh before me always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me.

^16:9 So my heart exults, my very soul rejoices, my body, too, will rest securely,

^16:10 for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor allow the one you love to see the Pit;

^16:11 you will reveal the path of life to me, give me unbounded joy in your presence, and at your right hand everlasting pleasures.

^8:1 Now after this he made his way through towns and villages preaching, and proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve,

^8:2 as well as certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

^8:3 Joanna the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and several others who provided for them out of their own resources.