Old Testament
Psa 18:1~20:9
Ps 18
1 I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my crag and my fortress and my Deliverer; / My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; / My shield and the horn of my salvation, my high retreat.
3 I called upon Jehovah, who is worthy of praise, / And from my enemies I was saved.
4 The cords of death encompassed me; / And the torrents of destruction assailed me.
5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; / The snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah / And cried out to my God. / He heard my voice from His temple, / And my cry before Him came to His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and quaked, / And the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook about, / For He was furious.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils, / And fire from His mouth devoured; / Coals blazed forth from Him.
9 He bowed the heavens down and descended, / And deep darkness was under His feet.
10 He rode upon a cherub and did fly; / He darted upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His hiding place, His pavilion around Him: / Dark waterclouds, thick clouds of the skies.
12 Out of the brightness before Him there broke through His clouds / Hail and fiery coals.
13 Then Jehovah thundered in heaven, / And the Most High uttered His voice.
14 And He sent forth His arrows and scattered my enemies; / And He shot forth lightning bolts and discomfited them.
15 The channels of the sea were seen, / And the foundations of the habitable land were laid bare / At Your rebuke, O Jehovah, / At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He reached forth from on high; He took me; / He drew me out of great waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy / And from those who hate me, for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, / But Jehovah became my support.
19 He brought me forth to a place broad and free; / He rescued me, for He took delight in me.
20 Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness; / According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah / And have not acted wickedly by turning away from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me, / And I did not turn His statutes away from me.
23 I was perfect toward Him, / And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, / According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the faithful You show Yourself faithful, / With a perfect man You show Yourself perfect,
26 With the pure You show Yourself pure, / And with the perverse You show Yourself contrary.
27 For it is You who save the afflicted people, / But the haughty eyes You bring down;
28 For it is You who light my lamp; / Jehovah my God lights up my darkness;
29 For by You I can run up against a troop; / Indeed by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 As for God, His way is perfect; / The word of Jehovah is tried. / He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31 For who is God other than Jehovah, / And who is a rock but our God?
32 The God who girds me with strength / And makes my way perfect,
33 Who makes my feet like hinds’ feet / And sets me on my high places,
34 Who teaches my hands to wage war / So that my arms may bend a bronze bow.
35 And You have given me the shield of Your salvation, / And Your right hand supports me; / And Your condescending gentleness has made me great.
36 You have broadened the places of my steps under me, / And my feet have not slipped.
37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, / And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
38 I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise up; / They fell under my feet.
39 And You girded me with strength for war; / You brought down under me those who rose up against me.
40 You also made my enemies turn their back to me, / And I annihilated those who hated me.
41 They cried out, but there was no one to save them; / They cried out to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them like dust before the wind; / Like the mud of the streets I pounded them.
43 You rescued me from the strivings of the people; / You have made me the head of the nations; / A people whom I had not known serves me.
44 At the mere hearing of a report, they obey me; / Foreigners come cringing to me;
45 Foreigners are discouraged / And come quaking out of their fortresses.
46 Jehovah lives; and blessed be my rock, / And exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 The God who executes vengeance for me / And subdues peoples under me,
48 Who rescues me from my enemies. / Indeed You exalted me above those who rise up against me; / From the violent man You delivered me.
49 Therefore I give thanks to You among the nations, O Jehovah; / And I will sing psalms to Your name.
50 It is He who magnifies salvation to His king / And executes lovingkindness to His anointed, / To David and to his seed forever.
Ps 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God, / And the expanse proclaims the work of His hands.
2 Day to day pours forth speech, / And night to night tells out knowledge.
3 There is no speech and there are no words; / Their voice is not heard.
4 In all the earth their line has gone forth, / And their words to the end of the world. / In the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
5 And he, like a bridegroom, goes forth from his canopy; / He rejoices like a mighty man running the course.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, / And his circuit is unto their ends; / And there is nothing hidden from his heat.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, / Restoring the soul; / The testimony of Jehovah is faithful, / Making the simple wise;
8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, / Making the heart joyous; / The commandment of Jehovah is clear, / Enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of Jehovah is pure, / Enduring forever; / The judgments of Jehovah are truth / And altogether righteous.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, / Even much refined gold; / Sweeter also than honey / And the drippings of the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned; / In keeping them there is much reward.
12 Who can discern his errors? / Clear me of my secret faults.
13 Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; / Do not let them have dominion over me; / Then I will be blameless and cleared / Of great transgression.
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart / Be acceptable before You, / O Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer.
Ps 20
1 May Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble; / May the name of the God of Jacob set you on high.
2 May He send you help from the sanctuary / And support you from Zion.
3 May He remember all your meal offerings / And accept your burnt offering. Selah
4 May He give you according to your heart’s desire / And fulfill all your intention.
5 May we shout victoriously in Your salvation / And raise the banner in the name of our God. / May Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now I know / That Jehovah saves His anointed; / He will answer him from His holy heaven / With mighty acts of salvation from His right hand.
7 Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; / But we boast in the name of Jehovah our God.
8 They are humbled and fallen, / But we have risen and stand upright.
9 Save, O Jehovah! / May the king answer us when we call.
New Testament
Rom 6:1~23
Rom 6
1 What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Absolutely not! We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
3 Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4 We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
7 For he who has died is justified from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death lords it over Him no more.
10 For the death which He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life which He lives, He lives to God.
11 So also you, reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Do not let sin therefore reign in your mortal body so that you obey the body’s lusts;
13 Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.
14 For sin will not lord it over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.
15 What then? Should we sin, because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves you are whom you obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which you were delivered.
18 And having been freed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death.
22 But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.