The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

June 8, 2024

June 7, 2024 June 9, 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 5:1-23

Chapters 5 to 9
Two Women Compete for Our Love
Seventh Address to a Son:
Wisdom Teaches You to Avoid Adultery
51My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Open your ears to my understanding,
2so that you may hold on to insight,
so your lips may guard knowledge,
3because the lips of an immoral woman drip with honey,
and her words are[] as smooth as olive oil,
4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood[]
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead to hell.[]
6She gives no thought to the path of life.[]
Her ways wander, but she doesn't realize it.
7Now, you sons, listen to me.
Do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your way far from her.
Do not go near the doorway of her house.
9If you do, you will give your wealth to others
and your years to a cruel person.
10If you do, your work will satisfy strangers,
and the results of your labor will end up in another man's house.
11You will groan when your end comes,
when your body and flesh are consumed.
12Then you will say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised warnings!
13I did not listen to my teachers' voices,
and I did not open my ears to hear my instructors.
14I soon[] reached total ruin
in the midst of the assembly of the community.”
Encouragement to Faithfulness in Marriage
15Drink water from your own cistern.
Drink running water from your own well.
16Why should the water from your springs flow out into the street,
your streams of water into the public squares?
17They should be yours, yours alone.
They are not for strangers to share with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed.
Obtain your joy from the wife you married in your youth,
19who is a loving doe and a graceful deer.
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
Always be intoxicated with her love.
20Why should you be led astray, my son, by an immoral woman?
Why embrace a woman who is not your wife?
21For the ways of a man are in front of the eyes of the Lord,
and he weighs all of his paths.
22The evil deeds of the wicked man will capture him,
and he will be bound by the ropes of his sin.
23He will die for lack of discipline,
and he will go astray because of his great stupidity.

John 12:20-36

Death and Glory
20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Festival. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” 22Philip went to tell Andrew. Andrew came with Philip and told Jesus.
23Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it continues to be one kernel. But if it dies, it produces much grain. 25Anyone who loves his life destroys it. And the one who hates his life in this world will hold on to it for eternal life. 26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27“Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, this is the reason I came to this hour. 28Father, glorify your name!”
A voice came from heaven: “I have glorified my name, and I will glorify it again.”
29The crowd standing there heard it and said it thundered. Others said an angel talked to him. 30Jesus answered, “This voice was not for my sake but for yours.
31“Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out. 32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33He said this to indicate what kind of death he was going to die.
34The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Scriptures that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
35Then Jesus told them, “The light will be with you just a little while longer. Keep on walking while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 36While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.”
Jesus spoke these words, and then went away and was hidden from them.