Nurture

June 2025 Bible readings

stjohnstmarkchurchburyThursday, May 29, 2025

Here are the June 2025 Bible readings, which we’ll be using in both our churches as we end Easter Season, celebrate Pentecost and Trinity Sunday and start the long period of ‘Ordinary’ time.

The readings

Our Gospel readings see us finish off our time with John and return to Luke. We have Jesus praying for us and telling us about the coming of the Spirit, who will speak on our behalf. Then we have Jesus performing a healing in Gentile country before setting off on the long journey to Jerusalem with some over-reacting disciples.

It’s also time to move away from Acts and return to the Old Testament with readings from Proverbs, Isaiah and 1 Kings. In Acts, Paul and Silas are busted out of jail, then we go back to Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit that Jesus had been talking about. Then in the Old Testament we hear about the role of Wisdom, people who are rebellious – and Elijah throwing clothing at Elisha…

• June 1st – 7th Sunday of Easter: Acts 16:16-34; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 22-end; John 17:20-end;
• June 8th – Pentecost: Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17 [25-27];
• June 15th – Trinity Sunday: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15;
• June 22nd – 1st after Trinity: Isaiah 65:1-9; Galatians 3:23-end; Luke 8:26-39;
• June 29th – 2nd after Trinity: 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-end; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-end;

If you don’t have access to a Bible, then please follow this link to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library for upto Pentecost – and this link for after Pentecost. It’s not always the same but it’s usually very close.

The June 2025 Bible readings include this from Proverbs 8…

The gifts of Wisdom and its part in creation

Does not wisdom call,
    and does not understanding raise her voice?
On the heights, beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
beside the gates in front of the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
‘To you, O people, I call,
    and my cry is to all that live.

The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
    the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
    when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped,
    before the hills, I was brought forth—
when he had not yet made earth and fields,
    or the world’s first bits of soil.
When he established the heavens, I was there,
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
    when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
    rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the human race.

Thanks once again to Olivia Snow for the photo on Unsplash