Scripture Reading for the
Common Calendar Year
(beginning January 1st)

June 9

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The Lectionary According to the Common Calendar

Psalm 132

1 LORD, remember David and all his afflictions--
2 how he swore unto the LORD and vowed unto the Mighty God of Jacob:
3 "Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids
5 until I find out a place for the LORD,
a habitation for the Mighty God of Jacob."

6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of the wood:
7 "We will go into His tabernacles;
we will worship at His footstool."
8 Arise, O LORD, into Thy rest,
Thou and the ark of Thy strength.
9 Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let Thy saints shout for joy.
10 For Thy servant David's sake,
turn not away the face of Thine anointed.

11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it:
"Of the fruit of thy body I will set upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them,
their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore."
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion;
He hath desired it for His habitation:
14 "This is My rest for ever;
here will I dwell, for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision,
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation,
and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to bud;
I have ordained a lamp for Mine anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame,
but upon himself shall his crown flourish."

Mark 14:1-11

1 After two days was the Feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft and put Him to death. 2 But they said, "Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people."

3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box and poured it on His head. 4 And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, "Why was this ointment wasted? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor." And they murmured against her. 6 And Jesus said,

"Let her alone. Why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on Me. 7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good; but Me ye have not always. 8 She hath done what she could; she hath come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. 9 Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of as a memorial of her."

10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests to betray Him unto them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.

Galatians 3:19-29 

19 For what then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and itwas ordained by angels through the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should then have come by the law. 22 But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, being shut apart from the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

1 Kings 19:1-21

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." 3 And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers." 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, "Arise and eat." 6 And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee." 8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

9 And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him, "What doest thou here, Elijah?" 10 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." 11 And He said, "Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him and said, "What doest thou here, Elijah?" 14 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." 15 And the LORD said unto him, "Go, return on thy way to the Wilderness of Damascus. And when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; 16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy stead. 17 And it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. 18 Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him."

19 So he departed from thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. 20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee." And he said unto him, "Go back again, for what have I done to thee?" 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

Words of Wisdom - Proverbs 16:12

It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, 
for the throne is established by righteousness.