Daily Lectionary

October 28, 2027

October 27, 2027 October 29, 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.

Deuteronomy 30:1-20

Prosperity Will Follow Repentance

30¹When all these things come upon you, both the blessing and the curse that I have given you, and you take them to heart while you are among all the nations to which the Lord your God has banished you, ²and when you return to the Lord your God and listen to his voice with all your heart and soul, in every way that I am commanding you today, you and your children, ³then the Lord your God will restore you from your captivity. He will have compassion on you, and he will gather you together again out of all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. ⁴Even if your banished people are at the end of the heavens, the Lord your God will gather you together there and take you away from there. ⁵The Lord your God will bring you back to the land that your fathers possessed, and then you will possess it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

⁶The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with the result that you will live.

⁷Then the Lord your God will place all these curses on your enemies and on those who hated you and persecuted you. ⁸Once again you will listen to the voice of the Lord, and you will carry out all of his commands that I am giving you today.

⁹The Lord your God will cause you to be overflowing with good things from all the work of your hands, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your animals, and in the fruit of your soil. For once again he will rejoice over your prosperity, just as he rejoiced over your fathers, ¹⁰when you obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and his statutes written in this Book of the Law, when you return to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹¹Certainly, this commandment that I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, and it is not far away. ¹²It is not up in the heavens, so that you have to say, “Which one of us will go up to the heavens and get it for us so we can listen to it and carry it out?” ¹³It is not across the sea, so that you have to say, “Which one of us will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us so we can listen to it and carry it out?” ¹⁴Instead, the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so you can obey it.

Life or Death

¹⁵See now, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. ¹⁶This is what I am commanding you today: Love the Lord your God, walk in his ways, and keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and increase in number, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are going to possess.

¹⁷But if your heart turns away, and you do not listen, and you are lured away, and you bow down to other gods and serve them, ¹⁸then I declare to you today that you will most certainly perish. You will not live a long life on the land that you are about to enter and possess by crossing over the Jordan.

¹⁹I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live ²⁰by loving the Lord your God, by listening to his voice, and by clinging to him, because that means life for you, and you will live a long life on your land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Matthew 19:1-15

Marriage and Divorce

(Mark 10:1-12)

19¹When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. ³Some Pharisees came in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

⁴He answered, “Haven't you read that from the beginning their Maker ‘made them male and female,’^[] ⁵and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and remain united to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’?^[] ⁶So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

⁷They asked him, “Then why did Moses command a man to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

⁸Jesus said to them, “Because of your hard hearts, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not that way from the beginning. ⁹I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the grounds of her sexual immorality, and marries another woman is committing adultery.”^[]

¹⁰His disciples said to him, “If this is the relationship of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

¹¹But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given. ¹²For example, there are eunuchs who were born that way, and others who were castrated by people, and others who decided to remain unmarried because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it.”

Jesus Loves Little Children

(Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17)

¹³Then some people brought little children to Jesus to have him place his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴Then Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”^[] ¹⁵After he placed his hands on them, he left that place.