Daily Readings - 25/10/2026

^22:20 “You must not molest the stranger or oppress him, for you lived as strangers in the land of Egypt.

^22:21 You must not be harsh with the widow, or with the orphan;

^22:22 if you are harsh with them, they will surely cry out to me, and be sure I shall hear their cry;

^22:23 my anger will flare and I shall kill you with the sword, your own wives will be widows, your own children orphans.

^22:24 “If you lend money to any of my people, to any poor man among you, you must not play the usurer with him: you must not demand interest from him.

^22:25 “If you take another’s cloak as a pledge, you must give it back to him before sunset.

^22:26 It is all the covering he has; it is the cloak he wraps his body in; what else would he sleep in? If he cries to me, I will listen, for I am full of pity.

^17:1 Yahweh, hear the plea of virtue, listen to my appeal, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free from dishonesty.

^17:2 From your presence will my sentence come, your eyes are fixed on what is right.

^17:3 You probe my heart, examine me at night, you test me yet find nothing, no murmuring from me: my mouth has never sinned

^17:4 as most men’s do. No, I have treasured the words from your lips; in the path prescribed

^17:5 walking deliberately in your footsteps, so that my feet do not slip.

^17:6 I invoke you, God, and you answer me; turn your ear to me, hear what I say,

^17:7 display your marvellous kindness, saviour of fugitives! From those who revolt against you

^17:8 guard me like the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

^17:9 from the onslaughts of the wicked. My enemies cluster round me, breathing hostility;

^17:10 entrenched in their fat, their mouths utter arrogant claims;

^17:11 now they are closing in, they have eyes for nothing but to see me overthrown.

^17:12 They look like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in its hide.

^17:13 Rise, Yahweh, subdue him face to face, rescue my soul from the wicked with your sword,

^17:14 with your hand, Yahweh, rescue me from men, from the sort of men whose lot is here and now. Cram their bellies from your stores, give them all the sons that they could wish for, let them have a surplus to leave their children!

^17:15 For me the reward of virtue is to see your face, and, on waking, to gaze my fill on your likeness.

^22:34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together

^22:35 and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question,

^22:36 ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’

^22:37 Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

^22:38 This is the greatest and the first commandment.

^22:39 The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.

^22:40 On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’