Psalm 89Romans 4Psalm 89
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<> I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
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Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
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And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
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For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
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God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.
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O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
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Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
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The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
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The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
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Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand.
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Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
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Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
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In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
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For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
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For the LORD [is] our defence and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.
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Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
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I have found David my servant with my holy oil have I anointed him:
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With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
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The enemy shall not exact upon him nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
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And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
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But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
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I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
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He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
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Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
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My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
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His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
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If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments
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If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments
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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
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Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
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My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
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Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
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His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
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It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
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But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
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Thou hast broken down all his hedges thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
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All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
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Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
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Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
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Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
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The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
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How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
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Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
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Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people
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Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
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Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Romans 4
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What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory but not before God.
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For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
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[Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
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Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
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How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
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And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
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Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all,
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(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
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And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
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He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith, giving glory to God
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And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him
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But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead
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Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
