Nurture

Bible Readings for June 2024

stjohnstmarkchurchburyFriday, May 31, 2024

Here are the Bible readings for June 2024 which we’ll be using in St John & St Mark and Christ Church Walmersley. Please make use of these readings and reflect on what they might be saying to you. We’re now in the long season after Trinity and this month sees the New Testament readings focussing on Paul’s second letter to the church that he established in Corinth and the early ministry of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Mark.

The readings

Our Old Testament readings include the commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy – and that this was due to God’s regard for justice for all. Then we have God asking the question “where are you?” in Genesis and dry bones being restored in Ezekiel. God then gives Job the bigger picture before finally the author of Lamentations talks about God’s steadfast love.

• June 2 – 1st after Trinity: Deuteronomy 5:12-15; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23-3:6;
• June 9 – 2nd after Trinity: Genesis 3:8-15; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1; Mark 3:20-35;
• June 16 – 3rd after Trinity: Ezekiel 17:22-24; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10,14-17; Mark 4:26-34;
• June 23 – 4th after Trinity: Job 38:1-11; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41;
• June 30 – 5th after Trinity: Lamentations 3:23-33; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43;

If you don’t have access to a Bible, then please follow this link to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library. It’s not always the same but it’s usually pretty close.

The Bible readings for June 2024 include these verses from Job 38…

The Lord answered Job

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Gird up your loins like a man,
    I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
    Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it?
On what were its bases sunk,
    or who laid its cornerstone
when the morning stars sang together
    and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?

‘Or who shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb?—
when I made the clouds its garment,
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and prescribed bounds for it,
    and set bars and doors,
and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?

Thanks once again to Olivia Snow for the photo on Unsplash