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Monday, December 6, 2010

God's Faithfulness (Roman 3:1-8) NIV

1  What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in  circumcision?  
2  Much in every way? First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3  What if some did not have faith?  Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? 
4  Not at all!  Let God be true, and every man a liar.  As it is written:  So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.
5  But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say?  That God is unjust in bringing wrath on us?  (I am using human argument.)  
6  Certainly not!  If that were so, how could God judge the world? 
7  Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"  
8  Why not say---as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say---"Let us do evil that good may result?"  Their condemnation is deserved.

Roman 3: 1-8  NIV

Psalm 119: 1-8

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they who keep his statues and seek him with all their heart.
They do noting wrong; they walk in his ways.
You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed.
Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!
Then I would not be put to shame. when I consider all your commands.
I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.
I will obey your decrees; do not utterly forsake me.

Zondervan NIV