THEINC-HIM DAILY BIBLE MEDITATION: THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - October 23

Monday, October 23, 2017

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation - October 23 - Full Text!

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

THEINC-HIM Daily Bible Meditation

OCTOBER 23

PSALMS: 23, 53, 83, 113, 143

PROVERBS: 23

OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 26:17 - 27:46

NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 9:1 - 17

PSALMS: 24

Of David. A psalm.

¹The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it;

²for he founded it upon the seas

and established it upon the waters.

³Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?

Who may stand in his holy place?

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to an idol

or swear by what is false. ^A

⁵He will receive blessing from the LORD

and vindication from God his Savior.

⁶Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek your face, O God of Jacob. ^B

Selah

⁷Lift up your heads, O you gates;

be lifted up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

⁸Who is this King of glory?

The LORD strong and mighty,

the LORD mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up your heads, O you gates;

lift them up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

¹⁰Who is he, this King of glory?

The LORD Almighty--

he is the King of glory. ¹

Selah ²

PSALMS: 54

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil ^A of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding among us?"

¹Save me, O God, by your name;

vindicate me by your might.

²Hear my prayer, O God;

listen to the words of my mouth.

³Strangers are attacking me;

ruthless men seek my life--

men without regard for God.

Selah

⁴Surely God is my help;

the Lord is the one who sustains me.

⁵Let evil recoil on those who slander me;

in your faithfulness destroy them.

⁶I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;

I will praise your name, O LORD,

for it is good.

⁷For he has delivered me from all my troubles,

and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. ³

PSALMS: 84

For the director of music. According to gittith. ^A Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

¹How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD Almighty!

²My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young--

a place near your altar,

O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Selah

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a place of springs;

the autumn rains also cover it with pools. ^B

⁷They go from strength to strength,

till each appears before God in Zion.

⁸Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;

listen to me, O God of Jacob.

Selah

⁹Look upon our shield, ^C O God;

look with favor on your anointed one. ⁴

¹⁰Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

the LORD bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

¹²O LORD Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you. ⁵

PSALMS: 114

¹When Israel came out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

²Judah became God's sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled,

the Jordan turned back;

⁴the mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵Why was it, O sea, that you fled,

O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁶you mountains, that you skipped like rams,

you hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool,

the hard rock into springs of water. ⁶

PSALMS: 144

Of David.

¹Praise be to the LORD my Rock,

who trains my hands for war,

my fingers for battle.

²He is my loving God and my fortress,

my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield, in whom I take refuge,

who subdues peoples ^A under me.

³O LORD, what is man that you care for him,

the son of man that you think of him?

⁴Man is like a breath;

his days are like a fleeting shadow.

⁵Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;

touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

⁶Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies;

shoot your arrows and rout them.

⁷Reach down your hand from on high;

deliver me and rescue me

from the mighty waters,

from the hands of foreigners

⁸whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God;

on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

¹⁰to the One who gives victory to kings,

who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. ⁷

¹¹Deliver me and rescue me

from the hands of foreigners

whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

¹²Then our sons in their youth

will be like well-nurtured plants,

and our daughters will be like pillars

carved to adorn a palace.

¹³Our barns will be filled

with every kind of provision.

Our sheep will increase by thousands,

by tens of thousands in our fields;

¹⁴our oxen will draw heavy loads. ^B

There will be no breaching of walls,

no going into captivity,

no cry of distress in our streets.

¹⁵Blessed are the people of whom this is true;

blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. ⁸

PROVERBS: 24

24 ¹ Do not envy wicked men,

do not desire their company;

²for their hearts plot violence,

and their lips talk about making trouble.

³By wisdom a house is built,

and through understanding it is established;

⁴through knowledge its rooms are filled

with rare and beautiful treasures.

⁵A wise man has great power,

and a man of knowledge increases strength;

⁶for waging war you need guidance,

and for victory many advisers.

⁷Wisdom is too high for a fool;

in the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.

⁸He who plots evil

will be known as a schemer.

⁹The schemes of folly are sin,

and men detest a mocker.

¹⁰If you falter in times of trouble,

how small is your strength!

¹¹Rescue those being led away to death;

hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

¹²If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"

does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not he who guards your life know it?

Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? ⁹

¹³Eat honey, my son, for it is good;

honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

¹⁴Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;

if you find it, there is a future hope for you,

and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁵Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house,

do not raid his dwelling place;

¹⁶for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,

but the wicked are brought down by calamity.

¹⁷Do not gloat when your enemy falls;

when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,

¹⁸or the LORD will see and disapprove

and turn his wrath away from him.

¹⁹Do not fret because of evil men

or be envious of the wicked,

²⁰for the evil man has no future hope,

and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

²¹Fear the LORD and the king, my son,

and do not join with the rebellious,

²²for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,

and who knows what calamities they can bring?

²³These also are sayings of the wise:

To show partiality in judging is not good:

²⁴Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--

peoples will curse him and nations denounce him.

²⁵But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,

and rich blessing will come upon them. ¹⁰

²⁶An honest answer

is like a kiss on the lips.

²⁷Finish your outdoor work

and get your fields ready;

after that, build your house.

²⁸Do not testify against your neighbor without cause,

or use your lips to deceive.

²⁹Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;

I'll pay that man back for what he did."

³⁰I went past the field of the sluggard,

past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;

³¹thorns had come up everywhere,

the ground was covered with weeds,

and the stone wall was in ruins.

³²I applied my heart to what I observed

and learned a lesson from what I saw:

³³A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest--

³⁴and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man. ^A ¹¹

OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 26:17 - 27:46

¹⁷So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. ¹⁸Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

¹⁹Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

²⁰But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, ^B because they disputed with him. ²¹Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. ^C

²²He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, ^D saying, "Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land."

²³From there he went up to Beersheba. ²⁴That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

²⁵Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

²⁶Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces. ²⁷Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

²⁸They answered, "We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, `There ought to be a sworn agreement between us'--between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you ²⁹that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD."

³⁰Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

³²That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!" ³³He called it Shibah, ^E and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba. ^F

³⁴When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

27 ¹When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son."

"Here I am," he answered. ¹²

²Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death. ³Now then, get your weapons--your quiver and bow--and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. ⁴Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."

⁵Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, ⁶Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, ⁷`Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.' ⁸Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: ⁹Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. ¹⁰Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."

¹¹Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin. ¹²What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."

¹³His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."

¹⁴So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. ¹⁵Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

¹⁶She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.

¹⁷Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

¹⁸He went to his father and said, "My father."

"Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?"

¹⁹Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."

²⁰Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?"

"The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.

²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."

²²Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." ²³He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him. ²⁴"Are you really my son Esau?" he asked.

"I am," he replied.

²⁵Then he said, "My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing." ¹³

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me."

²⁷So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

"Ah, the smell of my son

is like the smell of a field

that the LORD has blessed. ²⁸May God give you of heaven's dew

and of earth's richness--

an abundance of grain and new wine. ²⁹May nations serve you

and peoples bow down to you.

Be lord over your brothers,

and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed

and those who bless you be blessed."

³⁰After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. ³¹He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

³²His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?"

"I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."

³³Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him--and indeed he will be blessed!"

³⁴When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me--me too, my father!"

³⁵But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."

³⁶Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named ^Jacob
A? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?" ¹⁴

³⁷Isaac answered Esau, "I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?"

³⁸Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.

³⁹His father Isaac answered him,

"Your dwelling will be

away from the earth's richness,

away from the dew of heaven above. ⁴⁰You will live by the sword

and you will serve your brother.

But when you grow restless,

you will throw his yoke

from off your neck."

⁴¹Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

⁴²When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you. ⁴³Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran. ⁴⁴Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides. ⁴⁵When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living." ¹⁵

PSALMS: 24

Of David. A psalm.

¹The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it;

²for he founded it upon the seas

and established it upon the waters.

³Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?

Who may stand in his holy place?

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to an idol

or swear by what is false. ^A

⁵He will receive blessing from the LORD

and vindication from God his Savior.

⁶Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek your face, O God of Jacob. ^B

Selah

⁷Lift up your heads, O you gates;

be lifted up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

⁸Who is this King of glory?

The LORD strong and mighty,

the LORD mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up your heads, O you gates;

lift them up, you ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in.

¹⁰Who is he, this King of glory?

The LORD Almighty--

he is the King of glory. ¹⁶

Selah ¹⁷

PSALMS: 54

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil ^A of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding among us?"

¹Save me, O God, by your name;

vindicate me by your might.

²Hear my prayer, O God;

listen to the words of my mouth.

³Strangers are attacking me;

ruthless men seek my life--

men without regard for God.

Selah

⁴Surely God is my help;

the Lord is the one who sustains me.

⁵Let evil recoil on those who slander me;

in your faithfulness destroy them.

⁶I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;

I will praise your name, O LORD,

for it is good.

⁷For he has delivered me from all my troubles,

and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. ¹⁸

PSALMS: 84

For the director of music. According to gittith. ^A Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

¹How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD Almighty!

²My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young--

a place near your altar,

O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Selah

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a place of springs;

the autumn rains also cover it with pools. ^B

⁷They go from strength to strength,

till each appears before God in Zion.

⁸Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;

listen to me, O God of Jacob.

Selah

⁹Look upon our shield, ^C O God;

look with favor on your anointed one. ¹⁹

¹⁰Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

the LORD bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

¹²O LORD Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you. ²⁰

PSALMS: 114

¹When Israel came out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

²Judah became God's sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled,

the Jordan turned back;

⁴the mountains skipped like rams,

the hills like lambs.

⁵Why was it, O sea, that you fled,

O Jordan, that you turned back,

⁶you mountains, that you skipped like rams,

you hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool,

the hard rock into springs of water. ²¹

PSALMS: 144

Of David.

¹Praise be to the LORD my Rock,

who trains my hands for war,

my fingers for battle.

²He is my loving God and my fortress,

my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield, in whom I take refuge,

who subdues peoples ^A under me.

³O LORD, what is man that you care for him,

the son of man that you think of him?

⁴Man is like a breath;

his days are like a fleeting shadow.

⁵Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;

touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

⁶Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies;

shoot your arrows and rout them.

⁷Reach down your hand from on high;

deliver me and rescue me

from the mighty waters,

from the hands of foreigners

⁸whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God;

on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

¹⁰to the One who gives victory to kings,

who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. ²²

¹¹Deliver me and rescue me

from the hands of foreigners

whose mouths are full of lies,

whose right hands are deceitful.

¹²Then our sons in their youth

will be like well-nurtured plants,

and our daughters will be like pillars

carved to adorn a palace.

¹³Our barns will be filled

with every kind of provision.

Our sheep will increase by thousands,

by tens of thousands in our fields;

¹⁴our oxen will draw heavy loads. ^B

There will be no breaching of walls,

no going into captivity,

no cry of distress in our streets.

¹⁵Blessed are the people of whom this is true;

blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. ²³

PROVERBS: 24

24 ¹ Do not envy wicked men,

do not desire their company;

²for their hearts plot violence,

and their lips talk about making trouble.

³By wisdom a house is built,

and through understanding it is established;

⁴through knowledge its rooms are filled

with rare and beautiful treasures.

⁵A wise man has great power,

and a man of knowledge increases strength;

⁶for waging war you need guidance,

and for victory many advisers.

⁷Wisdom is too high for a fool;

in the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.

⁸He who plots evil

will be known as a schemer.

⁹The schemes of folly are sin,

and men detest a mocker.

¹⁰If you falter in times of trouble,

how small is your strength!

¹¹Rescue those being led away to death;

hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

¹²If you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"

does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not he who guards your life know it?

Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? ²⁴

¹³Eat honey, my son, for it is good;

honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

¹⁴Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;

if you find it, there is a future hope for you,

and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁵Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house,

do not raid his dwelling place;

¹⁶for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,

but the wicked are brought down by calamity.

¹⁷Do not gloat when your enemy falls;

when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,

¹⁸or the LORD will see and disapprove

and turn his wrath away from him.

¹⁹Do not fret because of evil men

or be envious of the wicked,

²⁰for the evil man has no future hope,

and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

²¹Fear the LORD and the king, my son,

and do not join with the rebellious,

²²for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,

and who knows what calamities they can bring?

²³These also are sayings of the wise:

To show partiality in judging is not good:

²⁴Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--

peoples will curse him and nations denounce him.

²⁵But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,

and rich blessing will come upon them. ²⁵

²⁶An honest answer

is like a kiss on the lips.

²⁷Finish your outdoor work

and get your fields ready;

after that, build your house.

²⁸Do not testify against your neighbor without cause,

or use your lips to deceive.

²⁹Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;

I'll pay that man back for what he did."

³⁰I went past the field of the sluggard,

past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;

³¹thorns had come up everywhere,

the ground was covered with weeds,

and the stone wall was in ruins.

³²I applied my heart to what I observed

and learned a lesson from what I saw:

³³A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest--

³⁴and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man. ^A ²⁶

NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 9:1 - 17

9 ¹Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. ²Some men brought to him a paralytic, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."

³At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"

⁴Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? ⁵Which is easier: to say, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Get up and walk'?

⁶But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go home." ⁷And the man got up and went home. ⁸When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men.

⁹As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁰While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. ¹¹When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and `sinners'?"

¹²On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

¹³But go and learn what this means: `I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' ^A For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

¹⁴Then John's disciples came and asked him, "How is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

¹⁵Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

¹⁶"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. ¹⁷Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." ²⁷

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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Monday, October 23, 2017

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John 3:16-21