Psalm 85:7–13

⁷Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,
and grant us your salvation.

⁸Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;
but let them not turn back to folly.
⁹Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
¹²Yes, the Lord will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
¹³Righteousness will go before him
and make his footsteps a way.

Old Testament Reading Proverbs 30:1–9, 18–33

¹The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle.

The man declares, I am weary, O God;
I am weary, O God, and worn out.
²Surely I am too stupid to be a man.
I have not the understanding of a man.
³I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
⁴Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name?
Surely you know!
⁵Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
⁶Do not add to his words,
lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
⁷Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:
⁸Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,
⁹lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God. . . .

¹⁸Three things are too wonderful for me;
four I do not understand:
¹⁹the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a serpent on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a virgin.
²⁰This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”
²¹Under three things the earth trembles;
under four it cannot bear up:
²²a slave when he becomes king,
and a fool when he is filled with food;
²³an unloved woman when she gets a husband,
and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
²⁴Four things on earth are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
²⁵the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
²⁶the rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
²⁷the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
²⁸the lizard you can take in your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.
²⁹Three things are stately in their tread;
four are stately in their stride:
³⁰the lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and does not turn back before any;
³¹the strutting rooster, the he-goat,
and a king whose army is with him.
³²If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
³³For pressing milk produces curds,
pressing the nose produces blood,
and pressing anger produces strife.

New Testament Reading John 20:19–31

¹⁹On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” ²⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. ²¹Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” ²²And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

²⁴Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

²⁶Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” ²⁷Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” ²⁸Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” ²⁹Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

³⁰Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.