Daily Readings - 26/09/2026

^11:9 Rejoice in your youth, you who are young; let your heart give you joy in your young days. Follow the promptings of your heart and the desires of your eyes. But this you must know: for all these things God will bring you to judgement.

^11:10 Cast worry from your heart, shield your flesh from pain. Yet youth, the age of dark hair, is vanity.

^12:1 And remember your creator in the days of your youth, before evil days come and the years approach when you say, ‘These give me no pleasure’,

^12:2 before sun and light and moon and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

^12:3 the day when those who keep the house tremble[*a] and strong men are bowed; when the women grind no longer at the mill, because day is darkening at the windows

^12:4 and the street doors are shut; when the sound of the mill is faint, when the voice of the bird is silenced, and song notes are stilled,

^12:5 when to go uphill is an ordeal and a walk is something to dread. Yet the almond tree is in flower, the grasshopper is heavy with food and the caper bush bears its fruit, while man goes to his everlasting home. And the mourners are already walking to and fro in the street

^12:6 before the silver cord has snapped, or the golden lamp been broken, or the pitcher shattered at the spring, or the pulley cracked at the well,

^12:7 Or before the dust returns to the earth as it once came from it; and the breath to God who gave it.

^12:8 Vanity of vanities, Qoheleth says. All is vanity.

^90:1 Lord, you have been our refuge age after age.

^90:2 Before the mountains were born, before the earth or the world came to birth, you were God from all eternity and for ever.

^90:3 You can turn man back into dust by saying, ‘Back to what you were, you sons of men!’

^90:4 To you, a thousand years are a single day, a yesterday now over, an hour of the night.

^90:5 You brush men away like waking dreams, they are like grass

^90:6 sprouting and flowering in the morning, withered and dry before dusk.

^90:7 We too are burnt up by your anger and terrified by your fury;

^90:8 having summoned up our sins you inspect our secrets by your own light.

^90:9 Our days dwindle under your wrath, our lives are over in a breath

^90:10 our life lasts for seventy years, eighty with good health, but they all add up to anxiety and trouble-over in a trice, and then we are gone.

^90:11 Who yet has felt the full force of your fury, or learnt to fear the violence of your rage?

^90:12 Teach us to count how few days we have and so gain wisdom of heart.

^90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How much longer do we have? Take pity on your servants!

^90:14 Let us wake in the morning filled with your love and sing and be happy all our days;

^90:15 make our future as happy as our past was sad, those years when you were punishing us.

^90:16 Let your servants see what you can do for them, let their children see your glory.

^90:17 May the sweetness of the Lord be on us! Make all we do succeed.

^9:43 and everyone was awestruck by the greatness of God.

^9:44 ‘For your part, you must have these words constantly in your mind: The Son of Man is going to be handed over into the power of men’.

^9:45 But they did not understand him when he said this; it was hidden from them so that they should not see the meaning of it, and they were afraid to ask him about what he had just said.

^25:1 To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul,

^25:2 O my God.

^25:3 No, those who hope in you are never shamed, shame awaits disappointed traitors.

^25:4 Yahweh, make your ways known to me, teach me your paths.

^25:5 set me in the way of your truth, and teach me, for you are the God who saves me.

^25:6 Remember your kindness, Yahweh, your love, that you showed long ago.

^25:8 Yahweh is so good, so upright, he teaches the way to sinners;

^25:9 in all that is right he guides the humble, and instructs the poor in his way

^25:10 All Yahweh’s paths are love and truth for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

^25:11 For the sake of your name, Yahweh, forgive my guilt, for it is great.

^25:12 Everyone who fears Yahweh will be taught the course a man should choose;

^25:13 his soul will live in prosperity, his children have the land for their own.

^25:14 The close secret of Yahweh belongs to them who fear him, his covenant also, to bring them knowledge.

^25:15 My eyes are always on Yahweh, for he releases my feet from the net.

^25:16 Turn to me, take pity on me, alone and wretched as I am!

^25:17 Relive the distress of my heart, free me from my sufferings.

^25:18 See my misery and pain, forgive all my sins!

^25:19 See how my enemies multiply, and how violent their hatred has grown.

^25:20 Watch over my soul, rescue me; let me not be shamed: I take shelter in you.

^25:21 Let innocence and integrity be my protection, since my hope is in you, Yahweh. Redeem Israel, God, from all his troubles.

^2:1 If our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy,

^2:2 then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy.

^2:3 There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself,

^2:4 So that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other s people’s interests instead.

^2:5 In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus:[*a]

^2:6 His state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God

^2:7 but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are,

^2:8 he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.

^2:9 But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all other names

^2:10 so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee[*b] at the name of Jesus

^2:11 and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

^21:28 ‘What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, “My boy, you go and work in the vineyard today”.

^21:29 He answered, “I will not go”, but afterwards thought better of it and went.

^21:30 The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, “Certainly, sir”, but did not go.

^21:31 Which of the two did the father’s will?’ ‘The first’ they said. Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you.

^21:32 For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him.