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Daily Lectionary

February 10, 2025

February 9, 2025 February 11, 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 6:14-30

14A despairing person should receive loyalty[] from his friends,
even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15But my brothers are as undependable as gullies that dry up,
undependable as seasonal streams which overflow
16when they are darkened by ice and swollen with melting snow,
17but as quickly as they flood, they dry up in the scorching winds.[]
When it gets hot, they vanish from their channels.
18Caravans turn aside from their routes.
They go off into the empty wasteland and perish.
19The caravans of Tema search for these streams.
The travelers of Sheba hope to find them,
20but despite being confident, they are disappointed.
They arrive there only to be frustrated.
21Now that is what you are like!
You have seen something dreadful and you panic.
22Have I said, “Give me something,
or offer a payment on my behalf from your wealth”?
23Have I said, “Save me from the hand of my enemy,
or redeem me from the hand of the ruthless”?
24Teach me and I will be silent.
Help me understand what I have done wrong.
25How painful honest words are!
But what does your rebuke prove?
26Do you intend to attack me for mere words
by treating things said by a despairing man like wind?[]
27No doubt you would even cast lots for a fatherless child
and barter away your friend!
28But now, please look at me.
I would not lie to your face!
29Turn to me, and get rid of injustice.
Turn to me.[] My righteousness is still intact.[]
30Is there any injustice on my tongue?
Wouldn't my mouth detect it if I were speaking destructive words?[]

John 3:22-4:6

Jesus and John the Baptist
22After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside where he spent some time with them and was baptizing.
23John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized, 24for John had not been thrown into prison yet.
25Then an argument broke out between John's disciples and a certain Jew[] about purification. 26His disciples came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you testified—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him!”
27John answered, “A man cannot receive a single thing, unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28You yourselves are witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of him.’ 29The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens for him, is overjoyed when he hears the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is now complete. 30He must increase, but I must decrease.”
31The one who comes from above is superior to everyone. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in a way that belongs to the earth. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everyone. 32He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. 33The one who has received his testimony has certified that God is true. 34In fact, the one whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God[] gives the Spirit without measure. 35The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands. 36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, God's wrath remains on him.
The Samaritan Woman
41Jesus[] found out that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John, 2though it was not Jesus himself who was baptizing but his disciples. 3So he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.
4He had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there. Then Jesus, being tired from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.[]