Daily Readings - 07/10/2026

^2:1 It was not till fourteen years had passed that I went up to Jerusalem again. I went with Barnabas and took Titus with me.

^2:2 I went there as the result of a revelation, and privately I laid before the leading men the Good News as I proclaim it among the pagans; I did so for fear the course I was adopting or had already adopted would not be allowed.

^2:7 On the contrary, they recognised that I had been commissioned to preach the Good News to the uncircumcised just as Peter had been commissioned to preach it to the circumcised.

^2:8 The same person whose action had made Peter the apostle of the circumcised had given me a similar mission to the pagans.

^2:9 So, James, Cephas and John, these leaders, these pillars, shook hands with Barnabas and me as a sign of partnership: we were to go to the pagans and they to the circumcised.[*a]

^2:10 The only thing they insisted on was that we should remember to help the poor, as indeed I was anxious to do.

^2:11 When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, since he was manifestly in the wrong.

^2:12 His custom had been to eat with the pagans,[*b] but after certain friends of James arrived he stopped doing this and kept away from them altogether for fear of the group that insisted on circumcision.

^2:13 The other Jews joined him in this pretence, and even Barnabas felt himself obliged to copy their behaviour.

^2:14 When I saw they were not respecting the true meaning of the Good News, I said to Cephas in front of everyone, ‘In spite of being a Jew, you live like the pagans and not like the Jews, so you have no right to make the pagans copy Jewish ways’.

^116:1 I love! For Yahweh listens to my entreaty;

^116:2 he bends down to listen to me when I call.

^116:3 Death’s cords were tightening round me, the nooses of Sheol; distress and anguish gripped me,

^116:4 I invoked the name of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh, rescue me!’

^116:5 Yahweh is righteous and merciful, our God is tenderhearted;

^116:6 Yahweh defends the simple, he saved me when I was brought to my knees.

^116:7 Return to your resting place, my soul, Yahweh has treated you kindly.

^116:8 He has rescued (me from death) my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

^116:9 (I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.)[*a]

^116:10 I have faith, even when I say, ‘I am completely crushed’.

^116:11 In my alarm, I declared, ‘No man can be relied on’.

^116:12 What return can I make to Yahweh for all his goodness to me?

^116:13 I will offer libations to my saviour, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:14 (I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present!)

^116:15 The death of the devout costs Yahweh dear.

^116:16 Yahweh, I am your servant, your servant, son of a pious mother, you undo my fetters.

^116:17 I will offer you the thanksgiving sacrifice, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.

^116:18 I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present,

^116:19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in your heart, Jerusalem.

^11:1 Now once he was in a certain place praying, and when he had finished one of his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples’.

^11:2 He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray: “Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come;

^11:3 give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins,

^11:4 for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.”‘