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.

^17:1 Yahweh, hear the plea of virtue, listen to my appeal, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free from dishonesty.

^17:2 From your presence will my sentence come, your eyes are fixed on what is right.

^17:3 You probe my heart, examine me at night, you test me yet find nothing, no murmuring from me: my mouth has never sinned

^17:4 as most men’s do. No, I have treasured the words from your lips; in the path prescribed

^17:5 walking deliberately in your footsteps, so that my feet do not slip.

^17:6 I invoke you, God, and you answer me; turn your ear to me, hear what I say,

^17:7 display your marvellous kindness, saviour of fugitives! From those who revolt against you

^17:8 guard me like the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

^17:9 from the onslaughts of the wicked. My enemies cluster round me, breathing hostility;

^17:10 entrenched in their fat, their mouths utter arrogant claims;

^17:11 now they are closing in, they have eyes for nothing but to see me overthrown.

^17:12 They look like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in its hide.

^17:13 Rise, Yahweh, subdue him face to face, rescue my soul from the wicked with your sword,

^17:14 with your hand, Yahweh, rescue me from men, from the sort of men whose lot is here and now. Cram their bellies from your stores, give them all the sons that they could wish for, let them have a surplus to leave their children!

^17:15 For me the reward of virtue is to see your face, and, on waking, to gaze my fill on your likeness.

^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.