Daily Readings - 09/11/2026

^3:9 We are fellow workers with God; you are God’s farm, God’s building.

^3:10 By the grace God gave me, I succeeded as an architect and laid the foundations, on which someone else is doing the building. Everyone doing the building must work carefully.

^3:11 For the foundation, nobody can lay any other than the one which has already been laid, that is Jesus Christ.

^3:16 Didn’t you realise that you were God’s temple and that the Spirit of God was living among you?

^3:17 If anybody should destroy the temple of God, God will destroy him, because the temple of God is sacred; and you are that temple.

^45:1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme: I address my poem to the king; my tongue as ready as the pen of a busy scribe.

^45:2 Of all men you are the most handsome, your lips are moist with grace, for God has blessed you for ever.

^45:3 Hero, strap your sword at your side, in majesty and splendour;

^45:4 on, ride on, in the cause of truth, religion and virtue! Stretch the bowstring tight, lending terror to your right hand.

^45:5 Your arrows are sharp; nations lie at your mercy, the king’s enemies are losing heart.

^45:6 Your throne, God, shall last for ever and ever, your royal sceptre is a sceptre of integrity:

^45:7 virtue you love as much as you hate wickedness. This is why God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness, above all your rivals;

^45:8 myrrh and aloes waft from your robes. From palaces of ivory harps entertain you;

^45:9 daughters of kings are among your maids of honour; on your right stands the queen, in gold from Ophir.

^45:10 Listen, daughter, pay careful attention: forget your nation and your ancestral home,

^45:11 then the king will fall in love with your beauty. He is your master now, bow down to him.

^45:12 The daughter of Tyre will solicit your favour with gifts, the wealthiest nations,

^45:13 with jewels set in gold. Dressed

^45:14 in brocades, the king’s daughter is led in to the king, with bridesmaids in her train. Her ladies-in-waiting follow

^45:15 and enter the king’s palace to general rejoicing.

^45:16 Your ancestors will be replaced by sons whom you will make lords of the whole world.

^45:17 I shall immortalise your name, nations will sing your praises for ever and ever.

^2:13 Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

^2:14 and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there.

^2:15 Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over

^2:16 and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market’.

^2:17 Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me.[*b]

^2:18 The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’

^2:19 Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up’.

^2:20 The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary[*c]: are you going to raise it up in three days?’

^2:21 But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body,

^2:22 and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.