Sept. 21, 2025 : Psalms 6
1 Corinthians 3

Psalm 6

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
(Psalm 38:1–22)

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith.a  A Psalm of David.

1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger

or discipline me in Your wrath.

2 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail;

heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

3 My soul is deeply distressed.

How long, O LORD, how long?

4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul;

save me because of Your loving devotion.

5 For there is no mention of You in death;

who can praise You from Sheol?

6 I am weary from groaning;

all night I flood my bed with weeping

and drench my couch with tears.

7 My eyes fail from grief;

they grow dim because of all my foes.

8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,

for the LORD has heard my weeping.

9 The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;

they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Footnotes:

1 a Sheminith is probably a musical term; here and in 1 Chronicles 15:21 and Psalm 12:1.

1 Corinthians 3

God’s Fellow Workers
(Hebrews 5:11–14)

1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 For  you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among  you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? 4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose,a  and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Christ Our Foundation
(Isaiah 28:14–22; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:1–8)

10 By  the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder,  and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he  builds. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 his  workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It  will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each  man’s work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

God’s Temple and God’s Wisdom
(Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 6:18–20)

16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in b  you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”c 20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”d

21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephase  or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, 23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Footnotes:

8 a Literally are one
16 b Or among
19 c Job 5:13
20 d Psalm 94:11
22 e That is, Peter

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