Daily Lectionary:

Morning: Psalm 147:12-20
Exodus 13:3-10
1 Corinthians 15:41-50
Matthew 28:16-20
Evening: Psalm 113:1-9

Morning: Psalm 147:12-20

¹²Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!

Praise your God, O Zion!

¹³For he strengthens the bars of your gates;

he blesses your children within you.

¹⁴He grants peace within your borders;

he fills you with the finest of wheat.

¹⁵He sends out his command to the earth;

his word runs swiftly.

¹⁶He gives snow like wool;

he scatters frost like ashes.

¹⁷He hurls down hail like crumbs—

who can stand before his cold?

¹⁸He sends out his word, and melts them;

he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

¹⁹He declares his word to Jacob,

his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

²⁰He has not dealt thus with any other nation;

they do not know his ordinances.

Praise the Lord!

Exodus 13:3-10

³Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the LORD brought you out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten. ⁴Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. ⁵When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this observance in this month. ⁶Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the LORD. ⁷Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen in your possession, and no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory. ⁸You shall tell your child on that day, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.' ⁹It shall serve for you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, so that the teaching of the LORD may be on your lips; for with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. ¹⁰You shall keep this ordinance at its proper time from year to year."

1 Corinthians 15:41-50

⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

⁴²So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. ⁴³It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

⁵⁰What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Matthew 28:16-20

¹⁶Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. ¹⁷When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

Evening: Psalm 113:1-9

¹Praise the LORD!

Praise, O servants of the LORD;

praise the name of the LORD.

²Blessed be the name of the LORD

from this time on and forevermore.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting

the name of the LORD is to be praised.

⁴The LORD is high above all nations,

and his glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD our God,

who is seated on high,

⁶who looks far down

on the heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor from the dust,

and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

⁸to make them sit with princes,

with the princes of his people.

⁹He gives the barren woman a home,

making her the joyous mother of children.

Praise the LORD!