Psalm 102Psalm 103Romans 6.15->Romans 7.1-6Psalm 102
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Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
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My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
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My heart is broken it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
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I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
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I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
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My haters say evil of me all day those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
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I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
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Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
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My days are like a shade which is stretched out I am dry like the grass.
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But you, O Lord, are eternal and your name will never come to an end.
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You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
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For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
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So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
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When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory
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When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
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This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
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For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven
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Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered
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So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem
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When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
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He has taken my strength from me in the way he has made short my days.
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I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time your years go on through all generations:
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In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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They will come to an end, but you will still go on they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
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But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
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The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
Psalm 103
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Give praise to the Lord, O my soul let everything in me give praise to his holy name.
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Give praise to the Lord, O my soul let not all his blessings go from your memory.
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He has forgiveness for all your sins he takes away all your diseases
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He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.
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He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
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The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.
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He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel.
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The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
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His feeling will no longer be bitter he will not keep his wrath for ever.
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He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
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For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
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As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
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As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
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For he has knowledge of our feeble frame he sees that we are only dust.
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As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
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The wind goes over it and it is gone and its place sees it no longer.
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But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness
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If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
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The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens his kingdom is ruling over all.
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Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
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Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies and you his servants who do his pleasure.
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Give praise to the Lord, all his works, in all places under his rule: give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
Romans 6
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What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
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Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
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But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed
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And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
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I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
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When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
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What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
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But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
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For the reward of sin is death but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7
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Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
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For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
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So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
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In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
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For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
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But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
