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Psalms 51; Psalms 52; Psalms 53; Romans 2
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Psalms 51
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Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
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Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
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Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
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Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
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Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
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Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
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Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
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Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
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Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
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Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
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You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
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My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
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May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
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Psalms 52
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Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
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You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.
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You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
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You love every harmful word, you deceitful tongue!
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Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.
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The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at you, saying,
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“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”
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But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
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For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.
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Psalms 53
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The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.
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God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
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Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
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Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.
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But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to dread. God scattered the bones of those who attacked you; you put them to shame, for God despised them.
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Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
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Romans 2
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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
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Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
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So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
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Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
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God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
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To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;
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but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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For God does not show favoritism.
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
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For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
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(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.
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They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)
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This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
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Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
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if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
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if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark,
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
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You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
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As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
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Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.
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So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
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The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
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A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
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No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.