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Daily Lectionary

February 9, 2025

February 8, 2025 February 10, 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 6:1-13

Round One: Job's Second Speech:
If only God would crush me!
61Then Job responded:
2If only my grief could be weighed,
and my devastation placed on the scales with it!
3They would certainly weigh more than the sand of the sea!
No wonder my words have been rash.[]
4The arrows of the Almighty stick in me.
My spirit drinks in their poison.
The terrors of God are lined up against me.
5Does the wild donkey bray when it has green grass?
Does the ox bellow when it is near its fodder?
6Is tasteless food eaten without salt?
Is there flavor in the white of an egg?[]
7I absolutely refuse to touch it.
It is no better than sickening food.
8If only my request would be granted.
If only God would grant me what I hope for:
9that God would decide to crush me,
that he would unleash his hand and cut me off.
10For then I would still have this comfort:
Even as I writhe in relentless pain,[]
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11What strength do I have to wait hopefully?
What end awaits me that would make me want to prolong my life?
12Is my strength like stone,
or is my flesh bronze?
13Certainly I have no power to help myself,
since the hope that I can recover has been driven far away from me.

John 3:1-21

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus
31There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these miraculous signs you are doing unless God is with him.”
3Jesus replied, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless someone is born from above,[] he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?”
5Jesus answered, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God! 6Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh. Whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be surprised when I tell you that you must be born from above.[] 8The wind blows where it pleases. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.
10“You are the teacher of Israel,” Jesus answered, “and you do not know these things? 11Amen, Amen, I tell you: We speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. But you people do not accept our testimony. 12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13No one has ascended into heaven, except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.[]
14“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15so that everyone who believes in him shall not perish but[] have eternal life.
16“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18The one who believes in him is not condemned, but the one who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. 19This is the basis for the judgment: The light has come into the world, yet people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20In fact, everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, or else his deeds would be exposed. 21But the one who does what is true comes toward the light, in order that his deeds may be seen as having been done in connection with God.”