Daily Readings - 27/09/2026

^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.