Daily Lectionary

June 16, 2025

June 15, 2025 June 17, 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 16:1-24

More Advice for a Wise Son

16¹A person may have thought things through in his heart,

but an apt answer from his tongue comes from the Lord.

²All of a person's ways are pure in his own eyes,

but the Lord weighs motives.

³Commit what you do to the Lord,

and your plans will be established.

⁴The Lord has made everything for his^[] own purpose,

even a wicked person for a day of trouble.

⁵Anyone with an arrogant attitude is disgusting to the Lord.

Be sure of this: That person will not go unpunished.

⁶Through mercy and truth, guilt is atoned for,

and through the fear of the Lord, one turns away from evil.

⁷When the Lord is pleased with a man's ways,

he causes even his enemies to live at peace with him.

Wisdom for a King and His Subjects

⁸Better a little with righteousness

than a large income without justice.

⁹A person's heart plans his way,

but the Lord makes his steps secure.

¹⁰The king's lips speak for God,

so his mouth should not betray justice.

¹¹An accurate balance and scales belong to the Lord.

He has made all the weights in the bag.

¹²It is disgusting for kings to commit wickedness,

because a throne is established by righteousness.

¹³Kings approve of righteous lips.

They love a person who speaks upright things.

¹⁴The king's anger is a messenger of death,

but a wise person can appease it.

¹⁵There is life in the light from a king's face,

and his favor is like a cloud that brings spring rain.

¹⁶How much better to acquire wisdom rather than gold,

and to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.

¹⁷The highway followed by upright people turns away from evil.

The person who guards his way preserves his life.

¹⁸Pride goes before destruction,

and a haughty spirit precedes a fall.

¹⁹Better to share a humble spirit with the oppressed

than to share stolen goods with the haughty.

²⁰Whoever gives careful consideration to a matter^[] will succeed,

and the person who trusts the Lord will be blessed.

²¹A wise heart will be called discerning,

and appealing speech increases learning.

²²Good sense is a fountain of life for the person who possesses it,

but the instruction given by stubborn fools is stupidity.

²³A wise heart produces edifying speech.

It makes a person's lips more persuasive.

²⁴Pleasant speech is honey from a honeycomb,

sweet to the spirit and healing for the bones.

John 16:1-16

The Holy Spirit Will Guide You Into All Truth

16¹“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. ²They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who murders you will think he is offering a service to God. ³They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴But I have told you these things so that when their^[] time comes, you may remember that I told them to you. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵“But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶Yet because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth: It is good for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment: ⁹about sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; ¹¹about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into^[] all truth. For he will not speak on his own, but whatever he hears he will speak. He will also declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I said that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.

¹⁶“In a little while you are not going to see me anymore, and again in a little while you will see me, because I am going away to the Father.”^[]