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2023
Selected passages from the Revised Common Lectionary
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Texts for 2023
These include 25 lessons from the OT and 28 from the NT.
Season After Christmas
Jan. 1 – Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
Season of Epiphany
Jan. 8 – Isaiah 42:1-9
Jan. 15 – Isaiah 49:1-7
Jan. 22 – Isaiah 9:1-7
Jan. 29 – Micah 6:1-8
Feb. 5 – Matthew 5:13-20
Feb. 12 – Matthew 5:21-37
Feb. 19 – Matthew 17:1-19
Season of Lent
Feb. 26 – Romans 5:12-19
Mar. 5 – Romans 4:1-17
Mar. 12 – Romans 5:1-11
Mar. 19 – Ephesians 5:8-14
Mar. 26 – Romans 8:1-11
Apr. 2 – Matthew 21:1-11
Season of Easter
Apr. 9 – Jeremiah 31:1-6
Apr. 16 – Acts 2:14-36
Apr. 23 – Acts 2:14a, 36-41
Apr. 30 – Acts 2:42-47
May 7 – Acts 6:1-7:60
May 14 – Acts 17:1-31
May 21 – Acts 1:1-14
May 28 – John 7:37-39
Season After Pentecost
June 4 – Genesis 1:1-2:4a
June 11 – Genesis 12:1-9
June 18 – Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7
June 25 – Genesis 21:8-21
July 2 – Genesis 22:1-19
July 9 – Genesis 24:34-67
July 16 – Genesis 25:19-34
July 23 – Genesis 28:10-22
July 30 – Genesis 29:1-30
August 6 – Matthew 14:13-21
August 13 – Matthew 14:22-33
August 20 – Matthew 15:1-28
August 27 – Matthew 16:13-20
Sept. 3 – Matthew 16:21-28
Sept. 10 – Matthew 18:15-20
Sept. 17 – Matthew 18:21-35
Sept. 24 – Matthew 20:1-16
Oct. 1 – Matthew 21:23-32
Oct. 8 – Matthew 21:33-46
Oct. 15 – Matthew 22:1-14
Oct. 22 – Matthew 22:15-22
Oct. 29 – Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Nov. 5 – Micah 3:1-12
Nov. 12 – Amos 5:18-24
Nov. 19 – Zephaniah 1:1-2:3
Nov. 26 – Ezekiel 34:1-31
Season of Advent
Dec. 3 – Isaiah 64:1-9
Dec. 10 – Isaiah 40:1-11
Dec. 17 – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24*
Dec. 24 – Luke 1:46b-55*
*these sessions are focusing on a related lectionary text, but different from the Nurturing Faith selections.
Season of Christmas
Dec. 31 – Psalm 148