Daily Readings - 01/10/2026

^26:1 Yahweh, be my judge! I go my way in my innocence, My trust in Yahweh never wavers.

^26:2 Test me, Yahweh, and probe me, put me to the trial, loins and heart;

^26:3 for your love is before my eyes, and I live my life in loyalty to you.

^26:4 No sitting with wastrels for me, no associating with hypocrites;

^26:5 I hate the society of evil men, I refuse to sit down with the wicked.

^26:6 I wash my hands in innocence and join the procession round your altar,

^26:7 singing a hymn of thanksgiving, proclaiming all your wonders.

^26:8 I love the house where you live, the place where your glory makes its home.

^26:9 Do not let my soul share the fate of sinners, or my life the doom of men of blood,

^26:10 men with guilt on their hands, whose right hands are heavy with bribes.

^26:11 But I live my life in innocence, redeem me, Yahweh, take pity on me;

^26:12 my foot is set on the right path, I bless you, Yahweh, at the Assemblies.

^10:1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit.

^10:2 He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.

^10:3 Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

^10:4 Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

^10:5 Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!”

^10:6 And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you.

^10:7 Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

^10:8 Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you.

^10:9 Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you”.

^10:10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, .

^10:11 “We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.”

^10:12 I tell you, on that day it will not go as hard with Sodom as with that town.