Scripture Reading for May 25, 2025

John 14:23-29

23  Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my

word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to

them and make our home with them. 24  Whoever does not

love me does not keep my words, and the word that you

hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.

25  “I have said these things to you while I am still with

you. 26  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the

Father will send in my name, will teach you everything

and remind you of all that I have said to you. 27  Peace I

leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to

you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled,

and do not let them be afraid.

28  You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will

come to you.’ If you loved me you would rejoice that I

am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

29  And now I have told you this before it takes place, so

that when it does take place you may believe.

Revelation 21:10, 22-27, 22:1-5

10  And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain

and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of

heaven from God.

22  I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the

Almighty and the Lamb. 23  And the city has no need of sun or

moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp

is the Lamb. 24  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of

the earth will bring their glory into it. 25  Its gates will never be

shut by day—and there will be no night there. 26  People will

bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27  But nothing

unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or

falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of

life.

22 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,

bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the

Lamb 2  through the middle of the street of the city. On either side

of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit,

producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for

the healing of the nations. 3  Nothing accursed will be found there

any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it,

and his servants will worship him; 4  they will see his face, and

his name will be on their foreheads. 5  And there will be no more

night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will

be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.