[Propertalk] READINGS for the SECOND SUNDAY after the EPIPHANY

[Charles Wohlers]

The following are the readings for the Second Sunday of Epiphany, Jan. 18, according to the Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman Catholic, Canadian BAS, and the Church of England (Common Worship) lectionaries. All readings are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible. Unless otherwise noted, the ECUSA, Canadian and Common Worship readings are identical to the RCL this Sunday.



OLD TESTAMENT:  1 Samuel 3: 1 - 10 (11 - 20)   (RCL)
                                    1 Samuel 3: 3b - 10, 19   (Roman Catholic)

1Sam 3:1 (NRSV) Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under E'li. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. 
2 At that time E'li, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; 3 the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was. 4 Then the LORD called, "Samuel! Samuel!" and he said, "Here I am!" 5 and ran to E'li, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay down. 6 The LORD called again, "Samuel!" Samuel got up and went to E'li, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again." 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. 8 The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And he got up and went to E'li, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then E'li perceived that the LORD was calling the boy. 9 Therefore E'li said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, "Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. 
10 Now the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for your servant is listening." 11 Then the LORD said to Samuel, "See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle. 12 On that day I will fulfill against E'li all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 13 For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. 14 Therefore I swear to the house of E'li that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever." 
15 Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to E'li. 16 But E'li called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am." 17 E'li said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you." 18 So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. Then he said, "It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him." 
19 As Samuel grew up, the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan to Be'er-she'ba knew that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the LORD. 


PSALM 139: 1 - 6, 13 - 18  (RCL)

Psal 139:1 (NRSV) O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; 
you discern my thoughts from far away. 
3 You search out my path and my lying down, 
and are acquainted with all my ways. 
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, 
O LORD, you know it completely. 
5 You hem me in, behind and before, 
and lay your hand upon me. 
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; 
it is so high that I cannot attain it. 

13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; 
you knit me together in my mother's womb. 
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 
Wonderful are your works; 
that I know very well. 
15 My frame was not hidden from you, 
when I was being made in secret, 
intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. 
In your book were written 
all the days that were formed for me, 
when none of them as yet existed. 
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! 
How vast is the sum of them! 
18 I try to count them--they are more than the sand; 
I come to the end --I am still with you. 

Note: Verse numbering in your Psalter may be different from the above.


Psalm 40: 1, 3, 6 - 9  (Roman Catholic)

Psal 40:1 (NRSV) I waited patiently for the LORD; 
he inclined to me and heard my cry. 

3 He put a new song in my mouth, 
a song of praise to our God. 
Many will see and fear, 
and put their trust in the LORD. 

6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, 
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering 
you have not required. 
7 Then I said, "Here I am; 
in the scroll of the book it is written of me.
8 I delight to do your will, O my God; 
your law is within my heart." 
9 I have told the glad news of deliverance 
in the great congregation; 
see, I have not restrained my lips, 
as you know, O LORD. 

Note: Verse numbering in Roman Catholic bibles is one higher than the above.


NEW TESTAMENT:  1 Corinthians 6: 12 - 20  (RCL)
                                     1 Corinthians 6: 13c - 15a, 17 - 20  (Roman Catholic)

1Cor 6:12 (NRSV)   "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are beneficial. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food," and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The two shall be one flesh." 17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body. 


Revelation 5: 1 - 10  (C of E)

Reve 5:1 (NRSV) Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals; 2 and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" 3 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. 4 And I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." 
6 Then I saw between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 He went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne. 8 When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 They sing a new song: 
"You are worthy to take the scroll 
and to open its seals, 
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God 
saints from every tribe and language and people and nation; 
10 you have made them to be a kingdom and priests serving our God, 
and they will reign on earth." 


GOSPEL:  John 1: 43 - 51  (RCL)

John 1:43 (NRSV) The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." 44 Now Philip was from Bethsa'ida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathan'ael 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." 46 Nathan'ael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 When Jesus saw Nathan'ael coming toward him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" 48 Nathan'ael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." 49 Nathan'ael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" 50 Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these." 51 And 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." 


John 1: 35 - 42  (Roman Catholic)

John 1:35 (NRSV) The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?" 39 He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated Anointed ). 42 He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Ce'phas" (which is translated Peter).


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com
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