Bible Readings - Nov. 8, 2025

Reading I

Romans 16:16-23, 25-27

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

All the churches of Christ greet you.

I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create dissensions

and obstacles, in opposition to the teaching that you learned;

avoid them.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites,

and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you,

I want you to be wise as to what is good, and simple as to what is evil;

then the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Timothy, my co-worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason

and Sosipater, my relatives.

I, Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord.

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole Church, greets you.

Erastus, the city treasurer,

and our brother Quartus greet you.

[Now to him who can strengthen you,

according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ,

according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret for long ages

but now manifested through the prophetic writings and,

according to the command of the eternal God,

made known to all nations to bring about the obedience of faith,

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ

be glory forever and ever. Amen.]

Psalm 145:2-5, 10-11

Every day will I bless you,

and I will praise your name forever and ever.

Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;

his greatness is unsearchable.

Generation after generation praises your works

and proclaims your might.

They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty

and tell of your wondrous works.

Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,

and let your faithful ones bless you.

Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom

and speak of your might.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that for your sake he became poor although he was rich,

so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Gospel

Luke 16:9-15

I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth,

so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

The person who is trustworthy in very small matters

is also trustworthy in great ones;

and the person who is dishonest in very small matters

is also dishonest in great ones.

If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth,

who will trust you with true wealth?

If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another,

who will give you what is yours?

No servant can serve two masters.

He will either hate one and love the other,

or be devoted to one and despise the other.

You cannot serve God and mammon.”

The Pharisees, who loved money,

heard all these things and sneered at him.

And he said to them,

“You justify yourselves in the sight of others,

but God knows your hearts;

for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God.”