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Daily Lectionary

August 23, 2027

August 22, 2027 August 24, 2027

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 Kings 3:1-15

The Beginning of Solomon's Reign
31Solomon had made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He married Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the City of David until he had finished building his own house, the Lord's house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
2The people were still offering sacrifices at the high places[] because a house for the Name of the Lord had not yet been built in those days. 3Solomon loved the Lord, so he followed the instructions of his father David, though he was still offering sacrifices and burning incense at the high places.
Solomon Asks for Wisdom
(2 Chronicles 1:2-13)
4So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, because it was the most important high place. Solomon offered one thousand whole burnt offerings on that altar. 5The Lord appeared to Solomon in Gibeon in a dream at night.
God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
6Solomon said, “You have shown great mercy and faithfulness[] to your servant, my father David, just as he walked before you in truth, righteousness, and uprightness of heart toward you. You have shown this great mercy and faithfulness to him and have given him a son who is seated on his throne to this very day. 7O Lord my God, now you have made your servant king in the place of my father David, but I am a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in. 8And I, your servant, am among your people whom you have chosen, a great people, who cannot be counted or numbered because they are so many. 9Now give to your servant a perceptive heart to judge your people, to distinguish between good and evil, for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
10In the eyes of the Lord, Solomon's request was good. 11So God said to him, “Because you have asked for this, and you have not asked for a long life, nor have you asked for riches, nor have you asked for the lives of your enemies, but you have asked for discernment to reach just verdicts, 12therefore I will act according to your words. Yes, I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you before you, nor will anyone like you rise up after you. 13In addition, I will give you what you have not asked for: such riches and honor that there will not be anyone like you among the other kings throughout all your days. 14If you walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and commands just as your father David did, then I will give you a long life.”
15Then Solomon woke up and realized it was a dream. So Solomon went to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord.[] He offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and he made a feast for all his officials.

2 Corinthians 1:1-22

Greeting
11Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints who are everywhere in Achaia:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
God Comforts and Rescues Us
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our trouble, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the same comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through Christ our comfort also overflows. 6If we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the ability to endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering. 7Our hope for you is sure, since we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so you also share in our comfort.
8Brothers,[] we do not want you to be unaware of the trouble that happened to us in the province of Asia. We were burdened so greatly, so far beyond our ability to bear it, that we even gave up hope of living. 9Yes, we even felt the sentence of death within ourselves. This happened so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. 10He rescued us from such a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. We have set our hope on him that he will also rescue us again, 11as you join in helping us with your prayers for us. Then many people will thank God for the gracious gift given to us through many prayers.
Paul Explains a Change in Plans
12Indeed, this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with God-given holiness[] and sincerity, not with the wisdom of the flesh, but rather in God's grace—especially toward you. 13In fact, we are not writing you anything other than what you read or also understand. And I hope you will understand completely— 14as you have also understood us in part—that on the day of our Lord Jesus we are going to be your reason for boasting, just as you are our reason.
15In this confidence, I was planning to visit you first, so that you would have a second gracious gift. 16Then I planned to travel from you on to Macedonia, and to return again from Macedonia to you to receive help from you on my way to Judea. 17So when I made this plan, I did not do it lightly, did I? Or the things I plan, am I planning them the way the sinful flesh does, so that I would be saying both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
18As surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us (by me, Silas,[] and Timothy), was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him the “Yes” stands firm. 20In fact, as many promises as God has made, they have always been “Yes” in him. For that reason we also say “Amen” through him to the glory of God.
21God is the one who makes both us and you to be strong in Christ. He anointed us. 22He sealed us as his own and gave us the Spirit as the down payment in our hearts.