Daily Readings - 04/11/2026

^2:12 So then, my dear friends, continue to do as I tell you, as you always have; not only as you did when I was there with you, but even more now that I am no longer there; and work for your salvation ‘in fear and trembling’.

^2:13 It is God, for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you.

^2:14 Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing

^2:15 and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood,[*c] and you will shine in the world like bright stars

^2:16 because you are offering it the word of life. This would give me something to be proud of for the Day of Christ, and would mean that I had not run in the race and exhausted myself for nothing.

^2:17 And then, if my blood has to be shed as part of your own sacrifice and offering-which is your faith[*d] I shall still be happy and rejoice with all of you,

^2:18 and you must be just as happy and rejoice with me.

^27:1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation, whom need I fear? Yahweh is the fortress of my life, of whom should I be afraid?

^27:2 When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, they, my opponents, my enemies, are the ones who stumble and fall.

^27:3 Though an army pitched camp against me, my heart would not fear; though war were waged against me, my trust would still be firm.

^27:4 One thing I ask of Yahweh, one thing I seek: to live in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to enjoy the sweetness of Yahweh and to consult him in his Temple.

^27:5 For he shelters me under his awning in times of trouble; he hides me deep in his tent, sets me high on a rock.

^27:6 And now my head is held high over the enemies who surround me, in his tent I will offer exultant sacrifice. I will sing, I will play for Yahweh!

^27:7 Yahweh, hear my voice as I cry! Pity me! Answer me!

^27:8 My heart has said of you, ‘Seek his face’. Yahweh, I do seek your face;

^27:9 do not hide your face from me. Do not repulse your servant in anger; you are my help. Never leave me, never desert me, God, my saviour!

^27:10 If my father and mother desert me, Yahweh will care for me still.

^27:11 Yahweh, teach me your way, lead me in the path of integrity because of my enemies;

^27:12 do not abandon me to the will of my foes – false witnesses have risen against me, and breathe out violence.

^27:13 This I believe: I shall see the goodness of Yahweh, in the land of the living.

^27:14 Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold, put your hope in Yahweh.

^14:25 Great crowds accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them.

^14:26 If any man comes to me without hating[*a] his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.

^14:27 Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

^14:28 ‘And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it?

^14:29 Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and saying, “‘

^14:30 Here is a man who started to build and was unable to finish”.

^14:31 Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with twenty thousand?

^14:32 If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.

^14:33 So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.