Daily Lectionary

June 23, 2025

June 22, 2025 June 24, 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.

Proverbs 27:1-24

27¹Do not boast about tomorrow,

because you do not know what a day may produce.

²Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—

a stranger, not your own lips.

³A stone is heavy and sand is a burden,

but aggravation from a stubborn fool is heavier than both.

⁴Cruel wrath and a flood of anger are devastating,

but who can stand up against jealousy?

⁵Open correction is better than concealed love.

⁶Wounds from someone who loves you can be trusted,

but the kisses of someone who hates you are too much.^[]

⁷A satisfied appetite refuses honey,

but to a hungry appetite, everything bitter tastes sweet.

⁸A person who wanders from his place

is like a bird that wanders from its nest.

⁹Olive oil and incense bring joy to a heart,

and the sweetness of a friend comes from his sincere advice.^[]

¹⁰Do not abandon your friend or your father's friend,

and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you.

A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who is far away.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart,

so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.

¹²A sensible person sees trouble and hides,

but naïve people keep going and pay the penalty.

¹³Take the garment of someone who guarantees a loan for a stranger.

Keep it when someone pledges it on behalf of an immoral woman.

¹⁴When someone blesses his neighbor in a loud voice early in the morning,

it will be regarded as a curse.

¹⁵Constantly dripping water on a rainy day

and a nagging wife are alike.

¹⁶Trying to hold her back is like holding back the wind,

like grasping oil with your right hand.^[]

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,

and a man sharpens the insight of his friend.

¹⁸A person who tends a fig tree eats its fruit,

and a person who takes care of his master will be honored.

¹⁹As water reflects a person's face,

so a person's heart reflects the person.

²⁰Death and Destruction^[] are never satisfied,

and a person's eyes are never satisfied.

²¹A crucible is for refining silver and a smelter is for gold,

and a person is tested by his praise.^[]

²²Even if you grind a stubborn fool

like grain with a mortar and pestle,

his stupidity will not leave him.

²³Be certain that you know the condition of your flock very well.

Pay attention to your herds,

²⁴because wealth is not forever,

nor does a crown pass from generation to generation.

John 20:1-18

The Resurrection

(Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12)

20¹Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. ²So she left and ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she told them, “and we don't know where they put him!”

³So Peter and the other disciple went out, heading for the tomb. ⁴The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and got to the tomb first. ⁵Bending over, he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

⁶Then Simon Peter, who was following him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there. ⁷The cloth that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths, but was folded up in a separate place by itself. ⁸Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, also entered. He saw and believed. ⁹(They still did not yet understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.)

¹⁰Then the disciples went back to their homes.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹But Mary stood outside facing the tomb, weeping. As she wept, she bent over, looking into the tomb. ¹²She saw two angels in white clothes sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet. ¹³They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

She told them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him.”

¹⁴After she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not know it was Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”

Supposing he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you carried him off, tell me where you laid him, and I will get him.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned and replied in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means, “Teacher”).

¹⁷Jesus told her, “Do not continue to cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father—to my God and your God.’”

¹⁸Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” She also told them the things he said to her.