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Psalms 89; Psalms 90; Romans 14

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Psalms 89

1 I will sing of the LORD's loyal love forever. I will proclaim your faithfulness with my own mouth from one generation to the next.
2 That's why I say, "Your loyal love is rightly built—forever! You establish your faithfulness in heaven."
3 You said,"I made a covenant with my chosen one; I promised my servant David:
4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever; I will build up your throne from one generation to the next.'" Selah
5 Heaven thanks you for your wondrous acts, LORD— for your faithfulness too— in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 Is there any in the sky who could compare to the LORD? Who among the gods is equal to the LORD?
7 God is respected in the council of the holy ones; God is awesome and revered more than all those around him.
8 Who is like you, LORD God of heavenly forces? Mighty LORD, your faithfulness surrounds you!
9 You rule over the surging sea: When its waves rise up, it's you who makes them still.
10 It's you who crushed Rahab like a dead body; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
11 Heaven is yours! The earth too! The world and all that fills it— you made all of it! North and south—you created them!
12 The mountains Tabor and Hermon shout praises to your name.
13 You have a powerful arm; your hand is strong; your strong hand is raised high!
14 Your throne is built on righteousness and justice; loyal love and faithfulness stand in front of you.
15 The people who know the celebratory shout are truly happy! They walk in the light of your presence, LORD!
16 They rejoice in your name all day long and are uplifted by your righteousness
17 because you are the splendor of their strength. By your favor you make us strong
18 because our shield is the LORD's own; our king belongs to the holy one of Israel!
19 Once you spoke in a vision to your faithful servants: I placed a crown on a strong man. I raised up someone specially chosen from the people.
20 I discovered my servant David. I anointed him with my holy oil.
21 My hand will sustain him— yes, my arm will strengthen him!
22 No enemy will oppress him; no wicked person will make him suffer.
23 I will crush all his foes in front of him. I will strike down all those who hate him.
24 My faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him. He will be strengthened by my name.
25 I will set his hand on the sea. I will set his strong hand on the rivers.
26 He will cry out to me: "You are my father, my God, the rock of my salvation."
27 Yes, I'll make him the one born first— I'll make him the high king of all earth's kings.
28 I will always guard my loyal love toward him. My covenant with him will last forever.
29 I will establish his dynasty for all time. His throne will last as long as heaven does.
30 But if his children ever abandon my Instruction, stop following my rules—
31 if they treat my statutes like dirt, stop keeping my commandments—
32 then I will punish their sin with a stick, and I will punish their wrongdoing with a severe beating.
33 But even then I won't withdraw my loyal love from him. I won't betray my faithfulness.
34 I won't break my covenant. I won't renege on what crossed my lips.
35 By my own holiness I've sworn one thing: I will not lie to David.
36 His dynasty will last forever. His throne will be like the sun, always before me.
37 It will be securely established forever; like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky. Selah
38 But you, God, have rejected and despised him. You've become infuriated with your anointed one.
39 You've canceled the covenant with your servant. You've thrown his crown in the dirt.
40 You've broken through all his walls. You've made his strongholds a pile of ruins.
41 All those who pass by plunder him. He's nothing but a joke to his neighbors.
42 You lifted high his foes' strong hand. You gave all his enemies reason to celebrate.
43 Yes, you dulled the edge of his sword and didn't support him in battle.
44 You've put an end to his splendor. You've thrown his throne to the ground.
45 You've shortened the prime of his life. You've wrapped him up in shame. Selah
46 How long will it last, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my life is! Have you created humans for no good reason?
48 Who lives their life without seeing death? Who is ever rescued from the grip of the grave? Selah
49 Where now are your loving acts from long ago, my Lord— the same ones you promised to David by your own faithfulness?
50 Remember your servant's abuse, my Lord! Remember how I bear in my heart all the insults of the nations,
51 the ones your enemies, LORD, use— the ones they use to abuse every step your anointed one takes.
52 Bless the LORD forever! Amen and Amen!
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Psalms 90

1 Lord, you have been our help, generation after generation.
2 Before the mountains were born, before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world— from forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God.
3 You return people to dust, saying, "Go back, humans,"
4 because in your perspective a thousand years are like yesterday past, like a short period during the night watch.
5 You sweep humans away like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning.
6 True, in the morning it thrives, renewed, but come evening it withers, all dried up.
7 Yes, we are wasting away because of your wrath; we are paralyzed with fear on account of your rage.
8 You put our sins right in front of you, set our hidden faults in the light from your face.
9 Yes, all our days slip away because of your fury; we finish up our years with a whimper.
10 We live at best to be seventy years old, maybe eighty, if we're strong. But their duration brings hard work and trouble because they go by so quickly. And then we fly off.
11 Who can comprehend the power of your anger? The honor that is due you corresponds to your wrath.
12 Teach us to number our days so we can have a wise heart.
13 Come back to us, LORD! Please, quick! Have some compassion for your servants!
14 Fill us full every morning with your faithful love so we can rejoice and celebrate our whole life long.
15 Make us happy for the same amount of time that you afflicted us— for the same number of years that we saw only trouble.
16 Let your acts be seen by your servants; let your glory be seen by their children.
17 Let the kindness of the Lord our God be over us. Make the work of our hands last. Make the work of our hands last!
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Romans 14

1 Welcome the person who is weak in faith—but not in order to argue about differences of opinion.
2 One person believes in eating everything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.
3 Those who eat must not look down on the ones who don't, and the ones who don't eat must not judge the ones who do, because God has accepted them.
4 Who are you to judge someone else's servants? They stand or fall before their own Lord (and they will stand, because the Lord has the power to make them stand).
5 One person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another person considers all days to be the same. Each person must have their own convictions.
6 Someone who thinks that a day is sacred, thinks that way for the Lord. Those who eat, eat for the Lord, because they thank God. And those who don't eat, don't eat for the Lord, and they thank the Lord too.
7 We don't live for ourselves and we don't die for ourselves.
8 If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to God.
9 This is why Christ died and lived: so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 But why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you look down on your brother or sister? We all will stand in front of the judgment seat of God.
11 Because it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 So stop judging each other. Instead, this is what you should decide: never put a stumbling block or obstacle in the way of your brother or sister.
14 I know and I'm convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is wrong to eat in itself. But if someone thinks something is wrong to eat, it becomes wrong for that person.
15 If your brother or sister is upset by your food, you are no longer walking in love. Don't let your food destroy someone for whom Christ died.
16 And don't let something you consider to be good be criticized as wrong.
17 God's kingdom isn't about eating food and drinking but about righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 Whoever serves Christ this way pleases God and gets human approval.
19 So let's strive for the things that bring peace and the things that build each other up.
20 Don't destroy what God has done because of food. All food is acceptable, but it's a bad thing if it trips someone else.
21 It's a good thing not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that trips your brother or sister.
22 Keep the belief that you have to yourself—it's between you and God. People are blessed who don't convict themselves by the things they approve.
23 But those who have doubts are convicted if they go ahead and eat, because they aren't acting on the basis of faith. Everything that isn't based on faith is sin.
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