Bible Reading for August 23 and 24
World English Bible
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.
24
Job
30-35
Job
30:1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,
whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Job
30:2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom
ripe age has perished?
Job
30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground,
in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job
30:4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are
their food.
Job
30:5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them
as after a thief;
Job
30:6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the
earth and of the rocks.
Job
30:7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are
gathered together.
Job
30:8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They
were flogged out of the land.
Job
30:9 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Job
30:10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to
spit in my face.
Job
30:11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have
thrown off restraint before me.
Job
30:12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet,
They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job
30:13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without
anyone's help.
Job
30:14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin
they roll themselves in.
Job
30:15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My
welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Job
30:16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction
have taken hold on me.
Job
30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains
that gnaw me take no rest.
Job
30:18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as
the collar of my coat.
Job
30:19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and
ashes.
Job
30:20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you
gaze at me.
Job
30:21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand
you persecute me.
Job
30:22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve
me in the storm.
Job
30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house
appointed for all living.
Job
30:24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or
in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job
30:25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul
grieved for the needy?
Job
30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for
light, there came darkness.
Job
30:27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction
have come on me.
Job
30:28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and
cry for help.
Job
30:29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job
30:30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned
with heat.
Job
30:31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the
voice of those who weep.
Job
31:1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look
lustfully at a young woman?
Job
31:2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from
the Almighty on high?
Job
31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the
workers of iniquity?
Job
31:4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
Job
31:5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried
to deceit
Job
31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my
integrity);
Job
31:7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after
my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
Job
31:8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of
my field be rooted out.
Job
31:9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid
wait at my neighbor's door,
Job
31:10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with
her.
Job
31:11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an
iniquity to be punished by the judges:
Job
31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root
out all my increase.
Job
31:13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my
female servant, when they contended with me;
Job
31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what
shall I answer him?
Job
31:15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion
us in the womb?
Job
31:16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have
caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job
31:17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not
eaten of it
Job
31:18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her
have I guided from my mother's womb);
Job
31:19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the
needy had no covering;
Job
31:20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with
my sheep's fleece;
Job
31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I
saw my help in the gate,
Job
31:22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm
be broken from the bone.
Job
31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty,
I can do nothing.
Job
31:24 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine
gold, 'You are my confidence;'
Job
31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my
hand had gotten much;
Job
31:26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in
splendor,
Job
31:27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a
kiss from my mouth,
Job
31:28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
for I should have denied the God who is above.
Job
31:29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated
me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
Job
31:30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life
with a curse);
Job
31:31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has
not been filled with his meat?'
Job
31:32 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened
my doors to the traveler);
Job
31:33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my
iniquity in my heart,
Job
31:34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of
families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of
the door--
Job
31:35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature,
let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
Job
31:36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to
me as a crown.
Job
31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince
would I go near to him.
Job
31:38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep
together;
Job
31:39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its
owners to lose their life,
Job
31:40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of
barley." The words of Job are ended.
Job
32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
righteous in his own eyes.
Job
32:2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the
family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because
he justified himself rather than God.
Job
32:3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because
they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job
32:4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder
than he.
Job
32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these
three men, his wrath was kindled.
Job
32:6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am
young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare
show you my opinion.
Job
32:7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
wisdom.'
Job
32:8 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty
gives them understanding.
Job
32:9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand
justice.
Job
32:10 Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'
Job
32:11 "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your
reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job
32:12 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who
convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
Job
32:13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute
him, not man;'
Job
32:14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I
answer him with your speeches.
Job
32:15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a
word to say.
Job
32:16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand
still, and answer no more?
Job
32:17 I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.
Job
32:18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
Job
32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new
wineskins it is ready to burst.
Job
32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and
answer.
Job
32:21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I
give flattering titles to any man.
Job
32:22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my
Maker would soon take me away.
Job
33:1 "However, Job, Please hear my speech, and listen to all my
words.
Job
33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my
mouth.
Job
33:3 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my
lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Job
33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty
gives me life.
Job
33:5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and
stand forth.
Job
33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out
of the clay.
Job
33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my
pressure be heavy on you.
Job
33:8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the
voice of your words, saying,
Job
33:9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is
there iniquity in me.
Job
33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his
enemy.
Job
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'
Job
33:12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for
God is greater than man.
Job
33:13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account
of any of his matters?
Job
33:14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
Job
33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on
men, in slumbering on the bed;
Job
33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Job
33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from
man.
Job
33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from
perishing by the sword.
Job
33:19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual
strife in his bones;
Job
33:20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
Job
33:21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His
bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the
destroyers.
Job
33:23 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one
among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
Job
33:24 then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going
down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
Job
33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the
days of his youth.
Job
33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees
his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
Job
33:27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted
that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
Job
33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall
see the light.'
Job
33:29 "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three
times, with a man,
Job
33:30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be
enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
33:31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will
speak.
Job
33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to
justify you.
Job
33:33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you
wisdom."
Job
34:1 Moreover Elihu answered,
Job
34:2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have
knowledge.
Job
34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Job
34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among
ourselves what is good.
Job
34:5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Job
34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is
incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
Job
34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
Job
34:8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks
with wicked men?
Job
34:9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should
delight himself with God.'
Job
34:10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be
it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he
should commit iniquity.
Job
34:11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every
man to find according to his ways.
Job
34:12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the
Almighty pervert justice.
Job
34:13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him
over the whole world?
Job
34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his
spirit and his breath,
Job
34:15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to
dust.
Job
34:16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the
voice of my words.
Job
34:17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him
who is righteous and mighty?--
Job
34:18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
Job
34:19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the
rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
Job
34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken
and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Job
34:21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his
goings.
Job
34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of
iniquity may hide themselves.
Job
34:23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should
go before God in judgment.
Job
34:24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and
sets others in their place.
Job
34:25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them
in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Job
34:27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay
attention to any of his ways,
Job
34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He
heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job
34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides
his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a
man,
Job
34:30 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to
ensnare the people.
Job
34:31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not
offend any more.
Job
34:32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I
will do it no more'?
Job
34:33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For
you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
Job
34:34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who
hears me:
Job
34:35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
Job
34:36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his
answering like wicked men.
Job
34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us,
and multiplies his words against God."
Job
35:1 Moreover Elihu answered,
Job
35:2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My
righteousness is more than God's,'
Job
35:3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit
shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Job
35:4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Job
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher
than you.
Job
35:6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If
your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Job
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he
receive from your hand?
Job
35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your
righteousness may profit a son of man.
Job
35:9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out.
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job
35:10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the
night,
Job
35:11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes
us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Job
35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of
evil men.
Job
35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the
Almighty regard it.
Job
35:14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is
before him, and you wait for him!
Job
35:15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does
he greatly regard arrogance.
Job
35:16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he
multiplies words without knowledge."
Aug. 23
Romans
4
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.
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5
Rom 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ;
Rom 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in
which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering works perseverance;
Rom 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
Rom 5:5
and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured
out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Rom 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the
ungodly.
Rom 5:7
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a
righteous person someone would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved
from God's wrath through him.
Rom
5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be
saved by his life.
Rom
5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Rom
5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and
death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all
sinned.
Rom
5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged
when there is no law.
Rom
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over
those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a
foreshadowing of him who was to come.
Rom
5:15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the
trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God,
and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the
many.
Rom
5:16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment
came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many
trespasses to justification.
Rom
5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the
one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus
Christ.
Rom
5:18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even
so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
Rom
5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made
righteous.
Rom
5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but
where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
Rom
5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through
righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.