THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - June 4

Sunday, June 4, 2017

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - June 4 - Full Text!

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

JUNE 4

PSALMS: 4, 34, 64, 94, 124

PROVERBS: 4

OLD TESTAMENT: JOB 12:1 - 15:35

NEW TESTAMENT: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:29 - 58

PSALMS: 4

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.

¹Answer me when I call to you,

O my righteous God.

Give me relief from my distress;

be merciful to me and hear my prayer.

²How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame ^A?

How long will you love delusions and seek false gods ^B?

Selah

³Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;

the LORD will hear when I call to him.

⁴In your anger do not sin;

when you are on your beds,

search your hearts and be silent.

Selah

⁵Offer right sacrifices

and trust in the LORD.

⁶Many are asking, "Who can show us any good?"

Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.

⁷You have filled my heart with greater joy

than when their grain and new wine abound.

⁸I will lie down and sleep in peace,

for you alone, O LORD,

make me dwell in safety. ¹

PSALMS: 34

Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.

¹I ^A will extol the LORD at all times;

his praise will always be on my lips.

²My soul will boast in the LORD;

let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

³Glorify the LORD with me;

let us exalt his name together.

⁴I sought the LORD, and he answered me;

he delivered me from all my fears.

⁵Those who look to him are radiant;

their faces are never covered with shame.

⁶This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;

he saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,

and he delivers them.

⁸Taste and see that the LORD is good;

blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

⁹Fear the LORD, you his saints,

for those who fear him lack nothing.

¹⁰The lions may grow weak and hungry,

but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

¹¹Come, my children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

¹²Whoever of you loves life

and desires to see many good days, ²

¹³keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from speaking lies.

¹⁴Turn from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their cry;

¹⁶the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,

to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;

he delivers them from all their troubles.

¹⁸The LORD is close to the brokenhearted

and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

¹⁹A righteous man may have many troubles,

but the LORD delivers him from them all;

²⁰he protects all his bones,

not one of them will be broken.

²¹Evil will slay the wicked;

the foes of the righteous will be condemned.

²²The LORD redeems his servants;

no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him. ³

PSALMS: 64

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

¹Hear me, O God, as I voice my complaint;

protect my life from the threat of the enemy.

²Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,

from that noisy crowd of evildoers.

³They sharpen their tongues like swords

and aim their words like deadly arrows.

⁴They shoot from ambush at the innocent man;

they shoot at him suddenly, without fear.

⁵They encourage each other in evil plans,

they talk about hiding their snares;

they say, "Who will see them ^A?"

⁶They plot injustice and say,

"We have devised a perfect plan!"

Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.

⁷But God will shoot them with arrows;

suddenly they will be struck down.

⁸He will turn their own tongues against them

and bring them to ruin;

all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

⁹All mankind will fear;

they will proclaim the works of God

and ponder what he has done.

¹⁰Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD

and take refuge in him;

let all the upright in heart praise him!⁴

PSALMS: 94

¹O LORD, the God who avenges,

O God who avenges, shine forth.

²Rise up, O Judge of the earth;

pay back to the proud what they deserve.

³How long will the wicked, O LORD,

how long will the wicked be jubilant?

⁴They pour out arrogant words;

all the evildoers are full of boasting.

⁵They crush your people, O LORD;

they oppress your inheritance.

⁶They slay the widow and the alien;

they murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, "The LORD does not see;

the God of Jacob pays no heed."

⁸Take heed, you senseless ones among the people;

you fools, when will you become wise?

⁹Does he who implanted the ear not hear?

Does he who formed the eye not see?

¹⁰Does he who disciplines nations not punish?

Does he who teaches man lack knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of man;

he knows that they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD,

the man you teach from your law;

¹³you grant him relief from days of trouble,

till a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD will not reject his people;

he will never forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,

and all the upright in heart will follow it.⁵

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked?

Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had given me help,

I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

¹⁸When I said, "My foot is slipping,"

your love, O LORD, supported me.

¹⁹When anxiety was great within me,

your consolation brought joy to my soul.

²⁰Can a corrupt throne be allied with you--

one that brings on misery by its decrees?

²¹They band together against the righteous

and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD has become my fortress,

and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.

²³He will repay them for their sins

and destroy them for their wickedness;

the LORD our God will destroy them. ⁶

PSALMS: 124

A song of ascents. Of David.

¹If the LORD had not been on our side--

let Israel say--

²if the LORD had not been on our side

when men attacked us,

³when their anger flared against us,

they would have swallowed us alive;

⁴the flood would have engulfed us,

the torrent would have swept over us,

⁵the raging waters

would have swept us away.

⁶Praise be to the LORD,

who has not let us be torn by their teeth.

⁷We have escaped like a bird

out of the fowler's snare;

the snare has been broken,

and we have escaped.

⁸Our help is in the name of the LORD,

the Maker of heaven and earth. ⁷

PROVERBS: 4

4 ¹ Listen, my sons, to a father's instruction;

pay attention and gain understanding.

²I give you sound learning,

so do not forsake my teaching.

³When I was a boy in my father's house,

still tender, and an only child of my mother,

⁴he taught me and said,

"Lay hold of my words with all your heart;

keep my commands and you will live.

⁵Get wisdom, get understanding;

do not forget my words or swerve from them.

⁶Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;

love her, and she will watch over you.

⁷Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom.

Though it cost all you have, ^A get understanding.

⁸Esteem her, and she will exalt you;

embrace her, and she will honor you.

⁹She will set a garland of grace on your head

and present you with a crown of splendor."

¹⁰Listen, my son, accept what I say,

and the years of your life will be many.

¹¹I guide you in the way of wisdom

and lead you along straight paths.

¹²When you walk, your steps will not be hampered;

when you run, you will not stumble.

¹³Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;

guard it well, for it is your life.

¹⁴Do not set foot on the path of the wicked

or walk in the way of evil men.

¹⁵Avoid it, do not travel on it;

turn from it and go on your way.

¹⁶For they cannot sleep till they do evil; ⁸

they are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall.

¹⁷They eat the bread of wickedness

and drink the wine of violence.

¹⁸The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,

shining ever brighter till the full light of day.

¹⁹But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;

they do not know what makes them stumble.

²⁰My son, pay attention to what I say;

listen closely to my words.

²¹Do not let them out of your sight,

keep them within your heart;

²²for they are life to those who find them

and health to a man's whole body.

²³Above all else, guard your heart,

for it is the wellspring of life.

²⁴Put away perversity from your mouth;

keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

²⁵Let your eyes look straight ahead,

fix your gaze directly before you.

²⁶Make level ^B paths for your feet

and take only ways that are firm.

²⁷Do not swerve to the right or the left;

keep your foot from evil. ⁹

OLD TESTAMENT: JOB 12:1 - 15:35

12 ¹Then Job replied:

²"Doubtless you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you!

³But I have a mind as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who does not know all these things?

⁴"I have become a laughingstock to my friends,

though I called upon God and he answered--

a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

⁵Men at ease have contempt for misfortune

as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

⁶The tents of marauders are undisturbed,

and those who provoke God are secure--

those who carry their god in their hands. ^A

⁷"But ask the animals, and they will teach you,

or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

⁸or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,

or let the fish of the sea inform you.

⁹Which of all these does not know

that the hand of the LORD has done this?

¹⁰In his hand is the life of every creature

and the breath of all mankind. ¹⁰

¹¹Does not the ear test words

as the tongue tastes food?

¹²Is not wisdom found among the aged?

Does not long life bring understanding?

¹³"To God belong wisdom and power;

counsel and understanding are his.

¹⁴What he tears down cannot be rebuilt;

the man he imprisons cannot be released.

¹⁵If he holds back the waters, there is drought;

if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

¹⁶To him belong strength and victory;

both deceived and deceiver are his.

¹⁷He leads counselors away stripped

and makes fools of judges.

¹⁸He takes off the shackles put on by kings

and ties a loincloth ^B around their waist.

¹⁹He leads priests away stripped

and overthrows men long established.

²⁰He silences the lips of trusted advisers

and takes away the discernment of elders.

²¹He pours contempt on nobles

and disarms the mighty.

²²He reveals the deep things of darkness

and brings deep shadows into the light.

²³He makes nations great, and destroys them; ¹¹

he enlarges nations, and disperses them.

²⁴He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;

he sends them wandering through a trackless waste.

²⁵They grope in darkness with no light;

he makes them stagger like drunkards.

13 ¹ "My eyes have seen all this,

my ears have heard and understood it.

²What you know, I also know;

I am not inferior to you.

³But I desire to speak to the Almighty

and to argue my case with God.

⁴You, however, smear me with lies;

you are worthless physicians, all of you!

⁵If only you would be altogether silent!

For you, that would be wisdom.

⁶Hear now my argument;

listen to the plea of my lips.

⁷Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf?

Will you speak deceitfully for him?

⁸Will you show him partiality?

Will you argue the case for God?

⁹Would it turn out well if he examined you?

Could you deceive him as you might deceive men? ¹²

¹⁰He would surely rebuke you

if you secretly showed partiality.

¹¹Would not his splendor terrify you?

Would not the dread of him fall on you?

¹²Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹³"Keep silent and let me speak;

then let come to me what may.

¹⁴Why do I put myself in jeopardy

and take my life in my hands?

¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;

I will surely ^A defend my ways to his face.

¹⁶Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance,

for no godless man would dare come before him!

¹⁷Listen carefully to my words;

let your ears take in what I say.

¹⁸Now that I have prepared my case,

I know I will be vindicated.

¹⁹Can anyone bring charges against me?

If so, I will be silent and die.

²⁰"Only grant me these two things, O God,

and then I will not hide from you:

²¹Withdraw your hand far from me, ¹³

and stop frightening me with your terrors.

²²Then summon me and I will answer,

or let me speak, and you reply.

²³How many wrongs and sins have I committed?

Show me my offense and my sin.

²⁴Why do you hide your face

and consider me your enemy?

²⁵Will you torment a windblown leaf?

Will you chase after dry chaff?

²⁶For you write down bitter things against me

and make me inherit the sins of my youth.

²⁷You fasten my feet in shackles;

you keep close watch on all my paths

by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

²⁸"So man wastes away like something rotten,

like a garment eaten by moths.

14 ¹ "Man born of woman

is of few days and full of trouble.

²He springs up like a flower and withers away;

like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

³Do you fix your eye on such a one?

Will you bring him^A before you for judgment? ¹⁴

⁴Who can bring what is pure from the impure?

No one!

⁵Man's days are determined;

you have decreed the number of his months

and have set limits he cannot exceed.

⁶So look away from him and let him alone,

till he has put in his time like a hired man.

⁷"At least there is hope for a tree:

If it is cut down, it will sprout again,

and its new shoots will not fail.

⁸Its roots may grow old in the ground

and its stump die in the soil,

⁹yet at the scent of water it will bud

and put forth shoots like a plant.

¹⁰But man dies and is laid low;

he breathes his last and is no more.

¹¹As water disappears from the sea

or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

¹²so man lies down and does not rise;

till the heavens are no more, men will not awake

or be roused from their sleep.

¹³"If only you would hide me in the grave ^B

and conceal me till your anger has passed!

If only you would set me a time ¹⁵

and then remember me!

¹⁴If a man dies, will he live again?

All the days of my hard service

I will wait for my renewal ^C to come.

¹⁵You will call and I will answer you;

you will long for the creature your hands have made.

¹⁶Surely then you will count my steps

but not keep track of my sin.

¹⁷My offenses will be sealed up in a bag;

you will cover over my sin.

¹⁸"But as a mountain erodes and crumbles

and as a rock is moved from its place,

¹⁹as water wears away stones

and torrents wash away the soil,

so you destroy man's hope.

²⁰You overpower him once for all, and he is gone;

you change his countenance and send him away.

²¹If his sons are honored, he does not know it;

if they are brought low, he does not see it.

²²He feels but the pain of his own body

and mourns only for himself."

15 ¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: ¹⁶

²"Would a wise man answer with empty notions

or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

³Would he argue with useless words,

with speeches that have no value?

⁴But you even undermine piety

and hinder devotion to God.

⁵Your sin prompts your mouth;

you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

⁶Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;

your own lips testify against you.

⁷"Are you the first man ever born?

Were you brought forth before the hills?

⁸Do you listen in on God's council?

Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

⁹What do you know that we do not know?

What insights do you have that we do not have?

¹⁰The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,

men even older than your father.

¹¹Are God's consolations not enough for you,

words spoken gently to you?

¹²Why has your heart carried you away,

and why do your eyes flash,

¹³so that you vent your rage against God ¹⁷

and pour out such words from your mouth?

¹⁴"What is man, that he could be pure,

or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?

¹⁵If God places no trust in his holy ones,

if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

¹⁶how much less man, who is vile and corrupt,

who drinks up evil like water!

¹⁷"Listen to me and I will explain to you;

let me tell you what I have seen,

¹⁸what wise men have declared,

hiding nothing received from their fathers

¹⁹(to whom alone the land was given

when no alien passed among them):

²⁰All his days the wicked man suffers torment,

the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.

²¹Terrifying sounds fill his ears;

when all seems well, marauders attack him.

²²He despairs of escaping the darkness;

he is marked for the sword.

²³He wanders about--food for vultures ^A;

he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

²⁴Distress and anguish fill him with terror;

they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

²⁵because he shakes his fist at God ¹⁸

and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

²⁶defiantly charging against him

with a thick, strong shield.

²⁷"Though his face is covered with fat

and his waist bulges with flesh,

²⁸he will inhabit ruined towns

and houses where no one lives,

houses crumbling to rubble.

²⁹He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,

nor will his possessions spread over the land.

³⁰He will not escape the darkness;

a flame will wither his shoots,

and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

³¹Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,

for he will get nothing in return.

³²Before his time he will be paid in full,

and his branches will not flourish.

³³He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,

like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

³⁴For the company of the godless will be barren,

and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

³⁵They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;

their womb fashions deceit." ¹⁹

NEW TESTAMENT: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:29 - 58

²⁹Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? ³⁰And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? ³¹I die every day--I mean that, brothers--just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³²If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,

"Let us eat and drink,

for tomorrow we die." ^D

³³Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." ³⁴Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God--I say this to your shame.

³⁵But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" ³⁶How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴²So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being" ^E; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. ⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we ^F bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

⁵⁰I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." ^G

⁵⁵"Where, O death, is your victory? ²⁰

Where, O death, is your sting?" ^H

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. ²¹

John 3:16-21 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." H

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