Browse Lectionary Hymns

Year A, Epiphany Season, Third Sunday

Sunday, January 25, 2026

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Readings

First Reading:	Isaiah 9:1-4
Psalm:	Psalm 27:1 ; Psalm 27:4-9
Second Reading:	1 Corinthians 1:10-18
Gospel:	Matthew 4:12-23

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Hymns

• All Are Welcome
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM))
• Arise, Your Light Is Come!
  Related to Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• As a Fire Is Meant for Burning
  Related to Isaiah 9, 1 Corinthians 1 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Be Light for Our Eyes
  Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Bring Forth the Kingdom
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Christ, Be Our Light!
  Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)
• City of God (Schutte)
  Related to Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Glory and Praise to Our God
  Verse 4 related to Exodus 17 and John 4 (NPM)
• God Has Chosen Me
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Good News
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Here I Am, Lord
  Related to Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Immaculate Mary
  Annunciation (NPM)
• Jehovah Is My Light
  Metrical Psalm 27 (DS)
• Jesus You Have Come to the Lakeshore
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Kindle a Flame to Lighten the Dark
  Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Life-Giving Bread,Saving Cup
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Lord of the Dance
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Many Are the Lightbeams
  Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)
• One Bread, One Body
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Open Your Ears, O Faithful People
  Related to Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Pan de Vida
  Relate to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness
  Related to Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Psalm 27
  Antiphonal Psalm (NPM)
• Psalm 27: The Lord Is My Light
  Antiphonal Psalm (NPM)
• Psalm 40: Here I Am
  Anunciation Antiphonal Psalm (NPM)
• See us, Lord, about your altar
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Seed, Scattered and Sown
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Take and Eat
  Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)
• The Living God My Shepherd Is
  Related to Exodus 17 and John 4 (NPM)
• The Summons
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• The Voice of God Goes Out to All the World
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Thy kingdom come! on bended knee
• Thy Strong Word Did Cleave the Darkness
  Related to Isaiah 9
• To God with Gladness Sing
  Recommended for Eucharist (NPM)
• Two Fishermen
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Ubi Caritas
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• We Are Many Parts
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• We Are the Body of Christ
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
• Where Charity and Love Prevail
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)
• Word of God, Come Down on Earth
  Related to Matthew 4 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)
• You Are Called to Tell the Story
  Related to 1 Corinthians 1 and Matthew 4 (NPM)
• You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore (Tú has venido a la orilla)
  Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)

Hymns Recommended by Experts

No Cause for Fear

Metrical Psalm 27

This Little Light of Mine

Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (NPM)

In Christ There Is No East or West

Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 4 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #104.

Jesus Calls Us, O'er the Tumult

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #121.

O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #738.

Christ, Whose glory fills the skies

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #662 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #667.

O Jesus, I have promised

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #724.

The Church's one foundation

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #321.

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 4 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #169.

I Come with Joy

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #533.

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #130.

O Christ, the Great Foundation

Related to 1 Corinthians 1 (NPM)

Tú has venido a la orilla

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #721 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #116.

Related to Isaiah 9, Psalm 27 and Matthew 3 (National Association of Pastoral Musicians)

Those Who Love and Those Who Labor

Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)

The Race That Long in Darkness Pined

This is recommended for Year A, Epiphany season, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes.

Recommendations for Isaiah 9:1-4

The Race That Long in Darkness Pined

This is recommended for Isaiah 9:2-7 by 16 hymnal scripture indexes including The Hymnal 1982: according to the use of the Episcopal Church #125, Lutheran Service Book #412, and Trinity Psalter Hymnal #269.

Recommendations for Psalm 27:1

No Cause for Fear

This is recommended for Psalm 27 by 22 hymnal scripture indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #841.

Recommendations for Psalm 27:4-9

No Cause for Fear

This is recommended for Psalm 27 by 22 hymnal scripture indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #841.

Soon as I heard my Father say

This is recommended for Psalm 27:8-9 by 10 hymnal scripture indexes.

Recommendations for 1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Lift High the Cross

This is recommended for 1 Corinthians 1:18 by 13 hymnal scripture indexes including Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #785 and Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #826.

Recommendations for Matthew 4:12-23

Jesus Calls Us, O'er the Tumult

This is recommended for Matthew 4:18-22 by 11 hymnal scripture indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #121 and The United Methodist Hymnal #398.

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

This is recommended for Matthew 4:18-22 by 10 hymnal scripture indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #169.

Tú has venido a la orilla

This is recommended for Matthew 4:18-22 by 15 hymnal scripture indexes including Gather (3rd ed.) #781 and Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #721.