CIL Daily Bible Readings

CIL Daily Bible Readings

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  • Psalms 56,57
    Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
    Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
    What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
    In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
    Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
    They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
    Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
    Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
    When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
    In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
    In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
    Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
    For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
    Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
    I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
    He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
    My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
    Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
    They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
    My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
    Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
    I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
    For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
    Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
    3 min
  • Psalms 53,54,55
    The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
    God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
    Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
    Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
    There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
    Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
    Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
    Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
    For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
    Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
    He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
    I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.
    For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
    Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
    Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
    Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
    My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
    Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
    And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
    Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
    I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
    Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
    Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
    Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
    For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
    But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
    We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
    Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
    As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
    Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
    He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
    God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
    He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
    The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
    Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
    But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
    7 min
  • Romans 7, 8
    Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
    For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
    So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
    Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
    For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
    But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
    What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
    But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
    For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
    And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
    For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
    Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
    Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
    For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
    For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
    If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
    Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
    For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
    For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
    Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
    I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
    For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
    But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
    O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
    I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
    For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
    That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
    For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
    Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
    So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
    But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
    13 min
  • Exodus 1,2
    Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
    Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
    Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
    Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
    And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
    And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
    And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
    Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
    And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
    Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
    Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
    But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
    And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
    And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
    And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
    And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
    But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
    And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
    And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
    Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
    And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
    And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
    And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
    And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
    And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
    And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
    And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
    And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
    Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
    And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
    And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.
    And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
    And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and h
    9 min
  • Romans 5, 6
    Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
    By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
    And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
    And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
    And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
    For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
    For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
    But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
    Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
    For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
    And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
    Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
    (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
    Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
    But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
    And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
    For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
    Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
    For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
    Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
    That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
    What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
    God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
    Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
    Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
    For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
    Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
    For he that is dead is freed from sin.
    Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
    Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
    For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
    Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
    Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
    For sin shall not
    9 min
  • Psalms 51,52
    Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
    Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
    For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
    Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
    Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
    Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
    Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
    Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
    Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
    Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
    Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
    Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
    Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
    O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
    Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
    Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
    Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
    The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
    Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
    Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
    God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
    The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
    Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
    But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
    I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
    5 min
  • Genesis 48,49,50
    And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
    And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
    And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
    And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
    And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
    And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
    And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
    And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
    And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
    Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
    And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
    And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
    And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
    And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
    And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
    The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
    And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
    And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
    And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
    And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
    And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
    Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
    And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
    Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
    Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
    Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
    Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
    O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine
    17 min
  • Genesis 46,47
    And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
    And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
    And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
    I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
    And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
    And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
    His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
    And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
    And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
    And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
    And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
    And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
    And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
    These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
    And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
    And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
    These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
    The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
    And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
    And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
    These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
    And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
    And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
    These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
    All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
    And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
    And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
    And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
    And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
    And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
    And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
    And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?
    That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that y
    11 min
  • Romans 3, 4
    What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
    Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
    For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
    God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
    But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
    God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
    For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
    And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
    What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
    As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
    There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
    They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
    Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
    Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
    Their feet are swift to shed blood:
    Destruction and misery are in their ways:
    And the way of peace have they not known:
    There is no fear of God before their eyes.
    Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
    Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
    But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
    Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
    For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
    Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
    Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
    To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
    Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
    Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
    Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
    Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
    Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
    What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
    For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
    For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
    Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
    But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
    Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
    Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
    Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
    Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in cir
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  • Psalms 50
    The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
    Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
    Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
    He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
    Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
    And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
    Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
    I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
    I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
    For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
    I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
    If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
    Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
    Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
    And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
    But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
    Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
    When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
    Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
    Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
    Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
    3 min

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