Readings for Sunday, Oct 25, 2026

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The 1st reading is from Jeremiah 31: 31-24

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31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

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33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

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The 2nd Reading is from Romans 3: 19-28​​​​​​​

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19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

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22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

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23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.