Bible Reading for August 21-23
World English Bible
Aug.
21
Job
20-23
Job
20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
Job
20:2 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by
reason of my haste that is in me.
Job
20:3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of
my understanding answers me.
Job
20:4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on
earth,
Job
20:5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the
godless but for a moment?
Job
20:6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach
to the clouds,
Job
20:7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have
seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
Job
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he
shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job
20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his
place any more see him.
Job
20:10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall
give back his wealth.
Job
20:11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with
him in the dust.
Job
20:12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide
it under his tongue,
Job
20:13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still
within his mouth;
Job
20:14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within
him.
Job
20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job
20:16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
Job
20:17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey
and butter.
Job
20:18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not
swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he
shall not rejoice.
Job
20:19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently
taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job
20:20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not
save anything of that in which he delights.
Job
20:21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his
prosperity shall not endure.
Job
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake
him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
Job
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the
fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is
eating.
Job
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall
strike him through.
Job
20:25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the
glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
Job
20:26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire
shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Job
20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up
against him.
Job
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away
in the day of his wrath.
Job
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage
appointed to him by God."
Job
21:1 Then Job answered,
Job
21:2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your
consolation.
Job
21:3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
Job
21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be
impatient?
Job
21:5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Job
21:6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Job
21:7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty
in power?
Job
21:8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their
offspring before their eyes.
Job
21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon
them.
Job
21:10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't
miscarry.
Job
21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children
dance.
Job
21:12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound
of the pipe.
Job
21:13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go
down to Sheol.
Job
21:14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know
about your ways.
Job
21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit
should we have, if we pray to him?'
Job
21:16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of
the wicked is far from me.
Job
21:17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in
his anger?
Job
21:18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as
chaff that the storm carries away?
Job
21:19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him
recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
Job
21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the
wrath of the Almighty.
Job
21:21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number
of his months is cut off?
Job
21:22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those
who are high?
Job
21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job
21:24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is
moistened.
Job
21:25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
Job
21:26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
Job
21:27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you
would wrong me.
Job
21:28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the
tent in which the wicked lived?'
Job
21:29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their
evidences,
Job
21:30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That
they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him
what he has done?
Job
21:32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over
the tomb.
Job
21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall
draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Job
21:34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your
answers there remains only falsehood?"
Job
22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Job
22:2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is
profitable to himself.
Job
22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or
does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
Job
22:4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with
you into judgment?
Job
22:5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your
iniquities.
Job
22:6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and
stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job
22:7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have
withheld bread from the hungry.
Job
22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man,
he lived in it.
Job
22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless
have been broken.
Job
22:10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
Job
22:11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters
cover you.
Job
22:12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of
the stars, how high they are!
Job
22:13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick
darkness?
Job
22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He
walks on the vault of the sky.'
Job
22:15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
Job
22:16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was
poured out as a stream,
Job
22:17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty
do for us?'
Job
22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel
of the wicked is far from me.
Job
22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule
them,
Job
22:20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The
fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
Job
22:21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.
Thereby good shall come to you.
Job
22:22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his
words in your heart.
Job
22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you
put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Job
22:24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the
stones of the brooks.
Job
22:25 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to
you.
Job
22:26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall
lift up your face to God.
Job
22:27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You
shall pay your vows.
Job
22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to
you. Light shall shine on your ways.
Job
22:29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will
save the humble person.
Job
22:30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be
delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
Job
23:1 Then Job answered,
Job
23:2 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy
in spite of my groaning.
Job
23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even
to his seat!
Job
23:4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments.
Job
23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand
what he would tell me.
Job
23:6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but
he would listen to me.
Job
23:7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be
delivered forever from my judge.
Job
23:8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;
Job
23:9 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but
I can't catch a glimpse of him.
Job
23:10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I
shall come forth like gold.
Job
23:11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and
not turned aside.
Job
23:12 I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have
treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job
23:13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul
desires, even that he does.
Job
23:14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such
things are with him.
Job
23:15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I
am afraid of him.
Job
23:16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified
me.
Job
23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he
cover the thick darkness from my face.
Aug.
22
Job
24-26
Job
24:1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those
who know him see his days?
Job
24:2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take
away flocks, and feed them.
Job
24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all
hide themselves.
Job
24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their
work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread
for their children.
Job
24:6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard
of the wicked.
Job
24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering
in the cold.
Job
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the
rock for lack of a shelter.
Job
24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and
take a pledge of the poor,
Job
24:10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry,
they carry the sheaves.
Job
24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine
presses, and suffer thirst.
Job
24:12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the
wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
Job
24:13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They
don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Job
24:14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and
needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Job
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,
'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
Job
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up
in the daytime. They don't know the light.
Job
24:17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for
they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job
24:18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their
portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the
vineyards.
Job
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those
who have sinned.
Job
24:20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him.
He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a
tree.
Job
24:21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to
the widow.
Job
24:22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has
no assurance of life.
Job
24:23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on
their ways.
Job
24:24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes,
they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job
24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my
speech worth nothing?"
Job
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job
25:2 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his
high places.
Job
25:3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
Job
25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of
a woman be clean?
Job
25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not
pure in his sight;
Job
25:6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a
worm!"
Job
26:1 Then Job answered,
Job
26:2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have
you saved the arm that has no strength!
Job
26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully
declared sound knowledge!
Job
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from
you?
Job
26:5 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.
Job
26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job
26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the
earth on nothing.
Job
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is
not burst under them.
Job
26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on
it.
Job
26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and
to the confines of light and darkness.
Job
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
rebuke.
Job
26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding
he strikes through Rahab.
Job
26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced
the swift serpent.
Job
26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a
whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can
understand?"
Aug.
23
Job
27-29
Job
27:1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job
27:2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty,
who has made my soul bitter.
Job
27:3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils);
Job
27:4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall
my tongue utter deceit.
Job
27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will
not put away my integrity from me.
Job
27:6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My
heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
27:7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up
against me be as the unrighteous.
Job
27:8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when
God takes away his life?
Job
27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job
27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at
all times?
Job
27:11 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal.
Job
27:12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you
become altogether vain?
Job
27:13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the
heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Job
27:14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
27:15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows
shall make no lamentation.
Job
27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as
the clay;
Job
27:17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver.
Job
27:18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman
makes.
Job
27:19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his
eyes, and he is not.
Job
27:20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in
the night.
Job
27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him
out of his place.
Job
27:22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from
his hand.
Job
27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of
his place.
Job
28:1 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold
which they refine.
Job
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of
the ore.
Job
28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job
28:4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are
forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and
forth.
Job
28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is
turned up as it were by fire.
Job
28:6 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
Job
28:7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye
seen it.
Job
28:8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion
passed by there.
Job
28:9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the
mountains by the roots.
Job
28:10 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every
precious thing.
Job
28:11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that
is hidden he brings forth to light.
Job
28:12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of
understanding?
Job
28:13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of
the living.
Job
28:14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with
me.'
Job
28:15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for its price.
Job
28:16 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
28:17 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged
for jewels of fine gold.
Job
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the
price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job
28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
Job
28:20 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
Job
28:21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept
close from the birds of the sky.
Job
28:22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with
our ears.'
Job
28:23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.
Job
28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the
whole sky.
Job
28:25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the
waters by measure.
Job
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
lightning of the thunder;
Job
28:27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and
searched it out.
Job
28:28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.
To depart from evil is understanding.' "
Job
29:1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job
29:2 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days
when God watched over me;
Job
29:3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked
through darkness,
Job
29:4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God
was in my tent,
Job
29:5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around
me,
Job
29:6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out
streams of oil for me,
Job
29:7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in
the street.
Job
29:8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and
stood.
Job
29:9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on
their mouth.
Job
29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to
the roof of their mouth.
Job
29:11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the
eye saw me, it commended me:
Job
29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless
also, who had none to help him,
Job
29:13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I
caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job
29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a
robe and a diadem.
Job
29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job
29:16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't
know, I searched out.
Job
29:17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out
of his teeth.
Job
29:18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my
days as the sand.
Job
29:19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on
my branch.
Job
29:20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'
Job
29:21 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my
counsel.
Job
29:22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on
them.
Job
29:23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with
the spring rain.
Job
29:24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't
reject the light of my face.
Job
29:25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in
the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Aug. 21
Romans
2
Rom 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge.
For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you
who judge practice the same things.
Rom 2:2
We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those
who practice such things.
Rom 2:3
Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things,
and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and
patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to
repentance?
Rom 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are
treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and
of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom 2:6
who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"
Rom 2:7
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and
incorruptibility, eternal life;
Rom 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
Rom 2:9
oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the
Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Rom
2:10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to
the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Rom
2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
Rom
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without
the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the
law.
Rom
2:13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before
God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Rom
2:14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the
things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to
themselves,
Rom
2:15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among
themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Rom
2:16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to
my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
Rom
2:17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and
glory in God,
Rom
2:18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent,
being instructed out of the law,
Rom
2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a
light to those who are in darkness,
Rom
2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the
law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Rom
2:21 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You
who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
Rom
2:22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit
adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Rom
2:23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law
do you dishonor God?
Rom
2:24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
because of you," just as it is written.
Rom
2:25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law,
but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has
become uncircumcision.
Rom
2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law,
won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Rom
2:27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the
law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a
transgressor of the law?
Rom
2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that
circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
Rom
2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that
of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not
from men, but from God.
Aug. 22
Romans
3
Rom 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of
circumcision?
Rom 3:2
Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with
the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith
nullify the faithfulness of God?
Rom 3:4
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar.
As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words,
and might prevail when you come into judgment."
Rom 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what
will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men
do.
Rom 3:6
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
Rom 3:7
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am
I also still judged as a sinner?
Rom 3:8
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that
we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who
say so are justly condemned.
Rom 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously
warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
Rom
3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.
Rom
3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks
after God.
Rom
3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become
unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as
one."
Rom
3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they
have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their
lips;"
Rom
3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
Rom
3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Rom
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
Rom
3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
Rom
3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Rom
3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to
those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all
the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Rom
3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in
his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Rom
3:21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been
revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
Rom
3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to
all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
Rom
3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Rom
3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus;
Rom
3:25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in
his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the
passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
Rom
3:26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he
might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in
Jesus.
Rom
3:27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of
law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Rom
3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart
from the works of the law.
Rom
3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles
also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom
3:30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised
by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom
3:31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No,
we establish the law.
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Rom 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found
according to the flesh?
Rom 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast
about, but not toward God.
Rom 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted to him for righteousness."
Rom 4:4
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as
debt.
Rom 4:5
But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the
ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts
righteousness apart from works,
Rom 4:7
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are
covered.
Rom 4:8
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.
Rom 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the
uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham
for righteousness.
Rom
4:10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom
4:11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in
uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe,
though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be
accounted to them.
Rom
4:12 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the
circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our
father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Rom
4:13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be
heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
Rom
4:14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void,
and the promise is made of no effect.
Rom
4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is
there disobedience.
Rom
4:16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to
grace, to the end that the promise may 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.
Rom
4:17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many
nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God,
who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as
though they were.
Rom
4:18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might
become a father of many nations, according to that which had been
spoken, "So will your seed be."
Rom
4:19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own
body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years
old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
Rom
4:20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through
unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Rom
4:21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able
also to perform.
Rom
4:22 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
Rom
4:23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his
sake alone,
Rom
4:24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who
believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
Rom
4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our
justification.
