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Daily Lectionary

June 5, 2024

June 4, 2024 June 6, 2024

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 1:8-33

Solomon's Speeches About Wisdom
(Chapters 1–9)
First Address to a Son: Avoid the Company of Sinners
8Listen, my son, to your father's discipline,
and do not forsake your mother's teaching,
9because they are a garland of grace for your head.
They are jewelry for your neck.
10My son, if sinners lure you, do not go along with them.
11If they say,
“Come with us. Let's lie in wait to shed blood.
Let's hide and ambush an innocent person for no reason.
12We will swallow them alive like the grave.
We will swallow them whole like those who go down to the pit.
13We will find all kinds of wealth and treasure.
We will fill our houses with loot.
14Cast your lot with us.
We will all share one bag of money.”
15My son, do not walk along the road with them.
Do not set foot on their path,
16because their feet run to do evil,
and they hurry to shed blood.
17How useless to spread a net in the sight of any bird!
18Yet they set up an ambush for their own blood.
They hide in ambush to take their own lives.
19This is where the path leads for everyone
who is greedy for stolen property:
It takes away the life of those who possess it.
First Poem About Wisdom:
Wisdom Calls but Many Refuse
20Wisdom calls out loudly in the street.
In the public squares she raises her voice.
21At the noisy street corners she calls out.
At the entrances to the city gates she speaks her words:
22“How long will you gullible[] people love being gullible?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing?
How long will fools hate knowledge?
23If you respond to my warning,
I will pour out my spirit for you.
I will make my words known to you.
24Because I called, but you refused to listen,
because I stretched out my hand, but no one paid attention,
25because you ignored all my advice,
and you did not accept my warning,
26therefore I will laugh at your calamity.
I will jeer when terror strikes you,
27when terror strikes you like a violent storm,
when calamity strikes you like a windstorm,
when trouble and distress come upon you.
28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer.
They will look for me, but they will not find me,
29because they hated knowledge,
and they did not choose the fear of the Lord.
30They would not accept my advice,
and they despised all my warnings.
31So they will eat the fruit of their own way,
and they will be stuffed with their own schemes.
32Therefore the wandering ways[] of the gullible kill them,
and the complacency of fools destroys them.
33But whoever listens to me will live in safety.
He will be secure, without fear of evil.”

John 11:17-37

17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. 19Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.
20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, while Mary was sitting in the house.
21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24Martha replied, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the Last Day.”
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even if he dies. 26And whoever lives and believes in me will never perish.[] Do you believe this?”
27“Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I believe[] that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28After she said this, Martha went back to call her sister Mary. She whispered, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30Now Jesus had not yet gone into the village, but was still where Martha met him. 31The Jews who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw that she got up quickly and left. So they followed her, supposing[] she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled.
34He asked, “Where have you laid him?”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
35Jesus wept.
36Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”