Daily Lectionary

June 18, 2025

June 17, 2025 June 19, 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 20:5-25

⁵The intentions in a person's heart are deep water,

but a person with understanding can draw them out.

⁶Many people claim to be loyal,^[]

but who can find a trustworthy man?

⁷A righteous person walks in his integrity.

How blessed are his children after him!

⁸When a king sits on his throne as judge,

he winnows out all evil with his eyes.

⁹Who can say, “I have purified my heart.

I am cleansed from my sinfulness”?

¹⁰Differing weights and differing measures—

both of them are disgusting to the Lord.

¹¹Even a youth makes himself known by his acts,

by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

¹²An ear that hears and an eye that sees—

the Lord has made both of them.

¹³Do not love sleep, or you will become poor.

Keep your eyes open, and you will have enough to eat.

¹⁴“It's no good! It's no good!” says the buyer,

but then he goes away and brags.

¹⁵There is gold, and there are many gems,^[]

but lips that have knowledge are a precious vessel.

¹⁶Take the garment from someone who guarantees a loan for a stranger.

Hold on to it when he offers it as collateral for a foreigner.

¹⁷Food gained dishonestly tastes sweet to a person,

but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

¹⁸Plans are strengthened by obtaining advice,

so do not wage war without consultation.

¹⁹A person who goes around spreading gossip reveals secrets,

so do not associate with anyone whose lips are always open.

²⁰The person who curses his father and his mother—

his lamp will be snuffed out in total darkness.

²¹An inheritance easily obtained^[] in the beginning

will not be blessed in the end.

²²Do not say, “I'll get even with you!”

Wait for the Lord, and he will rescue you.

²³Differing weights are disgusting^[] to the Lord,

and dishonest scales are not good.

²⁴The steps a man takes come from the Lord,

so how can anyone understand his own way?

²⁵A person falls into a trap if he pledges something to God impulsively

and considers his pledge only later.

John 17:1-26

Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

(For Himself)

17¹After Jesus had spoken these things, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you. ²For you gave him authority over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to all those you have given him. ³This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. ⁴I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. ⁵Now, Father, glorify me at your own side with the glory I had at your side before the world existed.

Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

(For His Apostles)

⁶“I revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me, and they have held on to your word. ⁷Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸For I gave them the words you gave me, and they received them. They learned the truth that I came from you. They believed that you sent me.

⁹“I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, because they are yours. ¹⁰All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. And I am glorified in them. ¹¹I am no longer going to be in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name, which you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. ¹²While I was with them, I kept those you gave me safe in your name.^[] I protected them and not one of them was destroyed, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³“But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so that they may be filled with my joy. ¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the Evil One. ¹⁶They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁷“Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹I sanctify myself for them, so they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

(For His Church for All Time)

²⁰“I am praying not only for them, but also for those who believe in me through their message. ²¹May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you. May they also be one^[] in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. ²²I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one: ²³I in them, and you in me. May they become completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

²⁴“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am so that they may see my glory—the glory you gave me, because you loved me before the world's foundation. ²⁵Righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these men knew that you sent me. ²⁶I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them, and that I may be in them.”