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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. Yup, I was free all right! Free to wake up…
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. "Present yourself" sounds like I have a hand in this matter. Maybe God is offering a gift, my choice…
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your…
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin…
My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise. Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes. I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies! Lord, I am troubled about my relationship with You.…
"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah God, the LORD, God the Almighty: He will be exalted among the nations…
Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. Another certainty, yet to be realized, but even so--certain. Universal and…
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth…
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Earthquakes and flood, two great disasters of nature but I am not to fear. Nor drought,…
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. How often do I run around, tear my hair, fret and stew, when faced with a problem? Finally, when the problem has been escalated to…
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar…
You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain. Lord, I see so many men and women who are determined to live according to their own follies and paying the penalties, refusing to turn to You. Help me to tell the story of Your…
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Jesus preached, and commanded His disciples, including us, to preach, "Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand (available to you now)" (Matthew 4:17) Faith (belief/trust/commitment/obedience) in Christ brings us immediately into the…
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Talk about a cornucopia of blessings.…
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his…