Serve, Work and Transform: Daily Lectionary Readings for January 15, 2026

Daily Lectionary Readings
(Two-Year Cycle)

Lectionary Readings for

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Morning Psalm 97

¹   The LORD is king! Let the earth rejoice;
          let the many coastlands be glad!
²   Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;
          righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³   Fire goes before him,
          and consumes his adversaries on every side.
⁴   His lightnings light up the world;
          the earth sees and trembles.
⁵   The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
          before the Lord of all the earth.

⁶   The heavens proclaim his righteousness;
          and all the peoples behold his glory.
⁷   All worshipers of images are put to shame,
          those who make their boast in worthless idols;
          all gods bow down before him.
⁸   Zion hears and is glad,
          and the towns of Judah rejoice,
          because of your judgments, O God.
⁹   For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth;
          you are exalted far above all gods.

¹⁰  The LORD loves those who hate evil;
          he guards the lives of his faithful;
          he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
¹¹  Light dawns for the righteous,
          and joy for the upright in heart.
¹²  Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous,
          and give thanks to his holy name!

Morning Psalm 147:12-20

¹²  Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
          Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³  For he strengthens the bars of your gates;
          he blesses your children within you.
¹⁴  He grants peace within your borders;
          he fills you with the finest of wheat.
¹⁵  He sends out his command to the earth;
          his word runs swiftly.
¹⁶  He gives snow like wool;
          he scatters frost like ashes.
¹⁷  He hurls down hail like crumbs —
          who can stand before his cold?
¹⁸  He sends out his word, and melts them;
          he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.
¹⁹  He declares his word to Jacob,
          his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
²⁰  He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
          they do not know his ordinances.
     Praise the Lord!

First Reading Genesis 4:17-26

¹⁷Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and named it Enoch after his son Enoch. ¹⁸To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methushael, and Methushael the father of Lamech. ¹⁹Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ²⁰Adah bore Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and have livestock. ²¹His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe. ²²Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

²³Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. ²⁴If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

²⁵Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him." ²⁶To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the LORD.

Second Reading Hebrews 3:1-11

¹Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, ²was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also "was faithful in all God's house." ³Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. ⁴(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) ⁵Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. ⁶Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

"Today, if you hear his voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

as on the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors put me to the test,

though they had seen my works ¹⁰for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said, 'They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.'

¹¹As in my anger I swore,

'They will not enter my rest.'"

Gospel Reading John 1:43-51

⁴³The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth." ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." ⁴⁷When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" ⁴⁸Nathanael asked him, "Where did you come to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." ⁴⁹Nathanael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" ⁵⁰Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these." ⁵¹And he said to him, "Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

Evening Psalm 16

¹   Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
²   I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
          I have no good apart from you.”

³ As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble,
in whom is all my delight.

⁴   Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows;
          their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
          or take their names upon my lips.

⁵   The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
          you hold my lot.
⁶   The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
          I have a goodly heritage.

⁷   I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
          in the night also my heart instructs me.
⁸   I keep the LORD always before me;
          because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹   Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
          my body also rests secure.
¹⁰  For you do not give me up to Sheol,
          or let your faithful one see the Pit.

¹¹  You show me the path of life.
          In your presence there is fullness of joy;
          in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Evening Psalm 62

¹   For God alone my soul waits in silence;
          from him comes my salvation.
²   He alone is my rock and my salvation,
          my fortress; I shall never be shaken.

³   How long will you assail a person,
          will you batter your victim, all of you,
          as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
⁴   Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence.
          They take pleasure in falsehood;
     they bless with their mouths,
          but inwardly they curse. Selah

⁵   For God alone my soul waits in silence,
          for my hope is from him.
⁶   He alone is my rock and my salvation,
          my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
⁷   On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
          my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.

⁸   Trust in him at all times, O people;
          pour out your heart before him;
          God is a refuge for us. Selah

⁹   Those of low estate are but a breath,
          those of high estate are a delusion;
     in the balances they go up;
          they are together lighter than a breath.
¹⁰  Put no confidence in extortion,
          and set no vain hopes on robbery;
          if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

¹¹  Once God has spoken;
          twice have I heard this:
     that power belongs to God,
¹²       and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord.
     For you repay to all
          according to their work.