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Daily Lectionary

August 16, 2028

August 15, 2028 August 17, 2028

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.

2 Samuel 6:1-19

David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem
(1 Chronicles 13:1-14; 15:25—16:3)
61David once again gathered all of the thirty thousand specially chosen men of Israel. 2Then David and all the people who were with him set out and went to Baale Judah[] to bring up the Ark of God, who is called by the name “The Lord of Armies, who is seated above the cherubim.”
3They transported the Ark of God on a new cart. They brought it out from Abinadab's house, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart 4with[] the Ark of God on it. Ahio was walking in front of the ark.
5David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with all kinds of instruments, castanets,[] lyres, harps, hand drums, rattles,[] and cymbals.
6But when they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out for the Ark of God and grabbed it because the oxen stumbled. 7The anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his irreverence. So he died there beside the Ark of God.
8David was angry because the Lord had burst out so violently against Uzzah, and he called that place Perez Uzzah,[] as it is called to this day. 9David was afraid of the Lord on that day. He said, “How can the Ark of the Lord come to me?” 10David was not willing to move the Ark of the Lord to himself in the City of David.
So David diverted the ark to the house of Obed Edom the Gittite. 11The Ark of the Lord remained at the house of Obed Edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed Edom and his whole household. 12David was told, “Because of the Ark of God, the Lord has blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that belongs to him.”[]
With rejoicing, David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed Edom to the City of David. 13When those carrying the Ark of the Lord had gone six paces, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. 14David danced with all his might before the Lord. He was wearing a linen vest. 15David and the entire house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of a ram's horn.
16When the Ark of the Lord arrived at the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
17They brought the Ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18When David finished presenting the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Armies. 19He distributed one loaf of bread, one cake of dates,[] and one cake of raisins to all the people, to the whole crowd from Israel, to men and women, to each and every person. Then all the people left. All of them went to their own houses,

1 Corinthians 9:1-23

What Paul Does With His Rights and Freedom
91Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus, our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3This is my defense to those who examine me. 4Do we not have a right to eat and to drink? 5Do we not have a right to take along a wife who is a believer, as the rest of the apostles do, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?[] 6Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have no right to be spared from manual labor? 7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat some of its fruit? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink milk from the flock? 8Am I saying this just from a human point of view? Doesn't the law also say this? 9Yes, it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out grain.”[] Is God really concerned about oxen, 10or does he say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher ought to thresh in hope of getting a share. 11If we sowed spiritual seed for your good, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you? 12If others have some right to make this claim on you, don't we even more? But we did not use this right. Instead, we endure everything so as not to cause any hindrance for the gospel of Christ.
13Do you not know that those who do the work in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who attend to the altar receive a portion from what is on the altar? 14In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel are to receive their living from the gospel. 15But I have used none of these things.
I am not writing this to have it done this way in my case, because it is better for me to die than to let anyone deprive me of my boast. 16You see, if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, because an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17If I do this as a volunteer, I receive compensation. But if not, I have been entrusted with a responsibility as a steward. 18What then is my compensation? To present the gospel of Christ[] free of charge when I preach it, instead of making use of the right I have when I preach the gospel.
19In fact, although I am free from all, I enslaved myself to all so that I might gain many more. 20To the Jews, I became like a Jew so that I might gain Jews. To those who are under the law, I became like a person under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might gain those who are under the law. 21To those who are without the law, I became like a person without the law (though I am not without God's law but am within the law of Christ) so that I might gain those who are without the law. 22To the weak, I became weak so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people so that I may save at least some. 23And I do everything for the sake of the gospel so that I may share in it along with others.