Daily Reading for Friday, October 20th, 2023

Reading 1, Romans 4:1-8

¹ Then what do we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are descended physically?

² If Abraham had been justified because of what he had done, then he would have had something to boast about. But not before God:

³ does not scripture say: Abraham put his faith in God and this was reckoned to him as uprightness?

⁴ Now, when someone works, the wages for this are not considered as a favour but as due;

⁵ however, when someone, without working, puts faith in the one who justifies the godless, it is this faith that is reckoned as uprightness.

⁶ David, too, says the same: he calls someone blessed if God attributes uprightness to that person, apart from any action undertaken:

⁷ How blessed are those whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is blotted out.

⁸ How blessed are those to whom the Lord imputes no guilt.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 11

¹ [Of David Poem] How blessed are those whose offence is forgiven, whose sin blotted out.

² How blessed are those to whom Yahweh imputes no guilt, whose spirit harbours no deceit.

⁵ I made my sin known to you, did not conceal my guilt. I said, 'I shall confess my offence to Yahweh.' And you, for your part, took away my guilt, forgave my sin.

¹¹ Rejoice in Yahweh, exult all you upright, shout for joy, you honest of heart.