Tuesday, October 20, 2026

¹²that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

⁹I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

¹⁰Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

¹¹Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹²Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

¹³Yes, the LORD will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

¹⁴Righteousness goes before him, and prepares the way for his steps.

³⁵"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

³⁶Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

³⁷Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

³⁸They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.