READINGS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY November 9, 2025
A Reading from the Book of Job (19:23-27a).
Job said, “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.”
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Psalm 17. Exaudi, Domine
Hear the right, O Lord, consider my complaint, *
and hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out of
feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; *
and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal.
3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season;
thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me; *
for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.
4 As for the works of men, *
by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the
ways of the destroyer.
5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths, *
that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me: *
incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.
7 Show thy marvellous loving-kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee, *
from such as resist thy right hand.
8 Keep me as the apple of an eye; *
hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
9 From the ungodly, that trouble me; *
mine enemies compass me round about, to take
away my soul.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat, *
and their mouth speaketh proud things.
11 They lie waiting in our way on every side, *
watching to cast us down to the ground;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, *
and as it were a lion’s whelp lurking in secret places.
13 Up, Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down; *
deliver my soul from the ungodly, by thine own sword;
14 Yea, by thy hand, O Lord; from the men of the evil world; *
which have their portion in this life, whose bellies
thou fillest with thy hid treasure.
15 They have children at their desire, *
and leave the rest of their substance for their babes.
16 But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness; *
and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied.
A Reading from the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians (2:13-3:5).
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. Luke (20:27-38).
There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.” And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”