The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

February 19, 2025

These daily readings from the EHV follow the one-year daily lectionary provided in Christian Worship: Hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book, and the Treasury of Daily Prayer. In this lectionary, two readings of 15-25 verses each are provided for each day. Under this plan, nearly all of the New Testament and approximately one-third of the Old Testament are read each year. These readings fit well within the daily offices of Matins, Vespers, or Compline as daily family devotions.

Job 14:1-22

141Man born of woman has a few short days,
and they are full of anxiety.
2He blossoms like a flower, but soon withers.
He recedes like a shadow and does not remain.
3You keep your eye on such a man.
You bring me[] into judgment in your presence.
4Who can produce something pure from something that is impure?
No one!
5Certainly his days are determined.
The number of his months has been set by you.
A limit is set, which he cannot exceed.
6Turn your gaze away from him, and let him be,
until he finishes his day's work as a hired man.
7There is still hope for a tree if it is cut down.
It may grow up again and produce new shoots.
8Though its roots lie dormant in the earth,
and its stump is dying in the dust,
9with just a whiff of water, it shoots up again.
As a growing plant, it again sends out branches.
10But if a man dies, he shrivels away.
When a person breathes his last, where is he?
11Waters evaporate from the sea.
A river dries up and becomes dust.
12In the same way, a man lies down and does not rise again.
Until the heavens pass away, he does not awaken,
and he is not aroused from his sleep.
13Oh how I wish you would hide me in the grave,
that you would conceal me until your wrath has passed by,
that you would set an appointed time for me,
and then you would remember me.
14If a man dies, will he live again?
Through all the days of my warfare,[]
I will wait, until change comes about for me.
15You will call, and I myself will answer.
Then you will long for the work of your hands.
16Now you count my steps,
but then you will no longer keep track of my sin.
17My rebellious deeds will be sealed up in a bag,
and you will plaster over my guilt.
18But as a mountain crumbles and falls,
and as a rock is moved from its place,
19as water wears away stones,
and floodwaters wash away soil from the land,
so you destroy a man's hope.
20You overpower him once and for all, and he passes away.
You change his appearance and send him away.
21His sons are honored, but he is not aware of it.
They are brought low, but he does not realize it.
22He feels the pain only of his own flesh,
and in his soul grieves only for himself.

John 6:41-59

41So the Jews started grumbling about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They asked, “Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say,[] ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the Last Day. 45It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’[] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46I am not saying that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He is the one who has seen the Father. 47Amen, Amen, I tell you: The one who believes in me[] has eternal life.
48“I am the Bread of Life. 49Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat it and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his[] flesh to eat?”
53So Jesus said to them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the Last Day. 55For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. 56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like your[] fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.