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’.

^117:1 Praise Yahweh, all nations, extol him, all you peoples!

^117:2 For his love is strong, his faithfulness eternal.

^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.”‘