Psalms 54; Psalms 55; Psalms 56; Romans 3

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Psalms 54

1 God, save me by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!

2 God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God. Selah

4 God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life.

5 He will repay my adversaries for [their] evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.

6 I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You. I will praise Your name, Lord, because it is good.

7 For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked down on my enemies.

Psalms 55

1 God, listen to my prayer and do not ignore my plea for help.

2 Pay attention to me and answer me. I am restless and in turmoil with my complaint,

3 because of the enemy's voice, because of the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster on me and harass me in anger.

4 My heart shudders within me; terrors of death sweep over me.

5 Fear and trembling grip me; horror has overwhelmed me.

6 I said, "If only I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

7 How far away I would flee; I would stay in the wilderness. Selah

8 I would hurry to my shelter from the raging wind and the storm."

9 Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city;

10 day and night they make the rounds on its walls. Crime and trouble are within it;

11 destruction is inside it; oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.

12 Now, it is not an enemy who insults me- otherwise I could bear it; it is not a foe who rises up against me- otherwise I could hide from him.

13 But it is you, a man who is my peer, my companion and good friend!

14 We used to have close fellowship; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

15 Let death take them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, because evil is in their homes and within them.

16 But I call to God, and the Lord will save me.

17 I complain and groan morning, noon, and night, and He hears my voice.

18 Though many are against me, He will redeem me from my battle unharmed.

19 God, the One enthroned from long ago, will hear, and will humiliate them Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.

20 He acts violently against those at peace with him; he violates his covenant.

21 His buttery words are smooth, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, but they are drawn swords.

22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will support you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

23 You, God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and treachery will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 56

1 Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me; he fights and oppresses me all day long.

2 My adversaries trample me all day, for many arrogantly fight against me.

3 When I am afraid, I will trust in You.

4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

5 They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

7 Will they escape in spite of such sin? God, bring down the nations in wrath.

8 You Yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your records?

9 Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call. This I know: God is for me.

10 In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise,

11 in God I trust; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

12 I am obligated by vows to You, God; I will make my thank offerings to You.

13 For You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life.

Romans 3

1 So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

2 Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

3 What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God's faithfulness?

4 Absolutely not! God must be true, but everyone is a liar, as it is written: That You may be justified in Your words and triumph when You judge.

5 But if our unrighteousness highlights God's righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

6 Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

7 But if by my lie God's truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

8 And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"? Their condemnation is deserved!

9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one;

11 there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

12 All have turned away, together they have become useless; there is no one who does good, there is not even one.

13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers' venom is under their lips.

14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,

17 and the path of peace they have not known.

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19 Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God's judgment.

20 For no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, for through the law [comes] the knowledge of sin.

21 But now, apart from the law, God's righteousness has been revealed-attested by the Law and the Prophets

22 -that is, God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

24 They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

25 God presented Him as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

26 He presented Him to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.

27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

28 For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

29 Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, for Gentiles too,

30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

31 Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.