Nurture

November 2025 Bible Readings

stjohnstmarkchurchburyMonday, October 27, 2025

Here are the November 2025 Bible readings, which we’ll be using in both our churches. This month includes All Saints, Remembrance Sunday and Christ the King – so a wide variety of readings. And we finish off Year C and start Year A in our Lectionary.

The readings

Our Old Testament readings include Daniel having a bad night and Job looking to posterity. Then Malachi talks of stubble and healing – and Jeremiah about both good and bad shepherds. We end with the wonderful words from Isaiah about swords and spears being beaten into gardening implements.

In the New Testament, Paul talks to the Ephesians about inheritance, then tells the Thessalonians not to panic and to keep away from the idle. Writing to the Colossians, we have the wonderful line about the Son being ‘the image of the invisible God’ then the Roman church being told to wake up.

Our Gospel readings include Jesus sharing some blessings and woes with his disciples, then the Sadducees trying to trap Jesus with a trick question, which he sees a mile off. He then gives both warnings and reassurance about the future. For Christ the King, we have the passage from Luke about the crucifixion. Then we switch to Year A and our first reading from Matthew at the start of Advent is about the end times.

• Nov 2nd – All Saints’: Daniel 7:1-3,15-18; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6:20-31;
• Nov 9th – 3rd before Advent: Job 19:23-27a; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5,13-17; Luke 20:27-38;
• Nov 16th – 2nd before Advent: Malachi 4:1-2a; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19;
• Nov 23rd – Christ the King: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke 23:33-43;
• Nov 30th – Advent Sunday: Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44;

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

The November 2025 Bible readings include this from Isaiah 2:1-5…

The future house of God

The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

In days to come
    the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it.

    Many peoples shall come and say,
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.’
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
    and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war any more.

O house of Jacob,
    come, let us walk
    in the light of the Lord!

Thanks once again to Olivia Snow for the photo on Unsplash