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Daily Lectionary

August 8, 2025

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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.

1 Samuel 24:1-22

241When Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “Here's some news. David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi.”[] 2Then Saul took three thousand specially chosen men[] from all Israel and went to hunt for David and his men along the rocky slopes of the wild goats.[]
3Saul came to some sheep pens that were along that route. Saul went into a cave that was there to relieve himself.[] At that time David and his men were far back in the interior of the cave.
4David's men said to him, “Look, this is the day the Lord told you about when he said, ‘I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you will do to him whatever seems good to you.’” So David got up and cut off the edge of Saul's robe without being noticed.
5Afterward, David had a guilty conscience, because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. 6He said to his men, “May I be cursed if I do something like this to my master, who is the Lord's anointed—that I would stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord's anointed.” 7With these words David restrained his men and did not allow them to attack Saul.
Saul got up, left the cave, and went on his way. 8David got up and followed him out of the cave and shouted to him, “My lord the king!”
When Saul looked back at him, David bowed facedown to the ground to show respect. 9David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of people who say, ‘Watch out! David is seeking to harm you’? 10This very day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you, because I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my master, because he is the Lord's anointed.’ 11Take a look at this! My father, take a good look at the piece of your robe that is here in my hand. Because I cut off the edge of your robe but did not kill you, you can be sure that I do not have any evil intent and I am not rebelling. I have not sinned against you, even though you keep hunting for me to take my life. 12May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you. 13As the ancient proverb says, ‘Out of the wicked come wicked deeds,’ but my hand will not be against you. 14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? What are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea? 15May the Lord, therefore, be the judge who renders a verdict between you and me. May he examine my case, plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
16When David had finished speaking these words, Saul responded, “Is that your voice, David, my son?” Saul broke down and wept. 17He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have treated me well, but I have treated you badly. 18You have made it clear today how you have been good to me, because when the Lord delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. 19If a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? May the Lord reward you with good for what you have done for me today. 20Now I know without a doubt that you will become king, and that the kingship over Israel will be established in your hand. 21So swear to me now by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father's house.”
22David promised this to Saul with an oath.
Saul went back home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Corinthians 1:26-2:16

26For example, consider your call, brothers. Not many of you were wise from a human point of view, not many were powerful, and not many were born with high status. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world to put to shame the things that are strong, 28and God chose the lowly things of the world and the despised things, and[] the things that are not, to do away with the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before God. 30But because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us the wisdom from God, namely, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 31God did this so that, just as it is written, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”[]
21As for me, brothers, when I came to you, I did not come with superior speech or wisdom in order to proclaim to you the testimony[] of God. 2For I had no intention of knowing anything among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3I came to you[] in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not marked by persuasive words of human[] wisdom, but by a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith would not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.
In-Depth Wisdom Is for Spiritual People
6Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, but it is not a wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are being reduced to nothing. 7Instead we speak God's wisdom that has been hidden in mystery—before the ages, God foreordained that this wisdom would result in our glory. 8None of the rulers of this world knew it. (If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.) 9But as it is written:
What no eye has seen and no ear has heard
and no human mind has conceived—
that is what God has prepared for those who love him.[]
10But God revealed it to us through his[] Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11Indeed, who among men knows a man's thoughts except the man's spirit within him? So also, no one else knows God's thoughts except God's Spirit.
12What we received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the blessings freely given to us by God. 13We also speak about these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual truths with spiritual words.[] 14However, an unspiritual person does not accept the truths taught by God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually evaluated. 15But the spiritual person evaluates all things, and he himself is evaluated by no one. 16Indeed, “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct him?”[] But we have the mind of Christ.