Psalm 66-67

New American Standard Bible

Praise for God’s Mighty Deeds and for His Answer to Prayer.

For the music director. A Song. A Psalm.

66 ^(A)Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
²Sing the ^(B)glory of His name;
Make His ^(C)praise glorious.
³Say to God, “How ^(D)awesome are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will ^(E)pretend to obey You.
⁴^(F)All the earth will worship You,
And will ^(G)sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.” Selah

⁵^(H)Come and see the works of God,
Who is ^(I)awesome in His deeds toward the sons of mankind.
⁶He ^(J)turned the sea into dry land;
They passed through ^(K)the river on foot;
Let’s ^(L)rejoice there, in Him!
⁷He ^(M)rules by His might forever;
His ^(N)eyes keep watch on the nations;
The rebellious shall not ^(O)exalt themselves! Selah

⁸Bless our God, you peoples,
And ^[a]^(P)sound His praise abroad,
⁹Who ^[b]^(Q)keeps us in life,
And ^(R)does not allow our feet to ^[c]slip.
¹⁰For You have ^(S)put us to the test, God;
You have ^(T)refined us as silver is refined.
¹¹You ^(U)brought us into the net;
You laid an oppressive burden upon ^[d]us.
¹²You made men ^(V)ride over our heads;
We went through ^(W)fire and through water.
Yet You ^(X)brought us out into a place of abundance.
¹³I shall ^(Y)come into Your house with burnt offerings;
I shall ^(Z)pay You my vows,
¹⁴Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was ^(AA)in distress.
¹⁵I shall ^(AB)offer to You burnt offerings of fat animals,
With the smoke of ^(AC)rams;
I shall make an offering of ^[e]bulls with male goats. Selah

¹⁶^(AD)Come and hear, all who ^[f]fear God,
And I will ^(AE)tell of what He has done for my soul.
¹⁷I cried to Him with my mouth,
And ^[g]He was ^(AF)exalted with my tongue.
¹⁸If I ^[h]^(AG)regard wickedness in my heart,
The ^(AH)Lord will not hear;
¹⁹But ^(AI)God has heard;
He has given attention to the sound of my prayer.
²⁰^(AJ)Blessed be God,
Who ^(AK)has not turned away my prayer
Nor His favor from me.

The Nations Exhorted to Praise God.

For the music director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

67 God be gracious to us and ^(AL)bless us,
And ^(AM)cause His face to shine ^[i]upon us— Selah
²That ^(AN)Your way may be known on the earth,
^(AO)Your salvation among all nations.
³May the ^(AP)peoples praise You, God;
May all the peoples praise You.
⁴May the ^(AQ)nations be glad and sing for joy;
For You will ^(AR)judge the peoples with fairness
And ^(AS)guide the nations on the earth. Selah
⁵May the ^(AT)peoples praise You, God;
May all the peoples praise You.
⁶The ^(AU)earth has yielded its produce;
God, our God, ^(AV)blesses us.
⁷God blesses us,
^[j]So that ^(AW)all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

Footnotes

Psalm 66:8 Lit cause to hear the sound of His praise
Psalm 66:9 Lit puts our soul in life
Psalm 66:9 Or dodder, stumble
Psalm 66:11 Lit our loins
Psalm 66:15 Or cattle
Psalm 66:16 Or revere
Psalm 66:17 Or praise was under my tongue
Psalm 66:18 Or had regarded
Psalm 67:1 Lit with
Psalm 67:7 Or And let all...earth fear Him

Romans 7

New American Standard Bible

Believers United to Christ

7 Or do you not know, ^(A)brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the ^[a]Law), that the ^[b]Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? ²For ^(B)the married woman is bound by law to her ^[c]husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law ^[d]concerning the husband. ³So then, if while her husband is alive she ^[e]gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she ^[f]gives herself to another man.

⁴Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were ^(C)put to death ^(D)in regard to the Law ^(E)through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵For while we were ^(F)in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were ^(G)brought to light by the Law, were at work ^(H)in ^[g]the parts of our body to bear fruit for death. ⁶But now we have been ^(I)released from the Law, having ^(J)died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ^(K)newness of ^(L)the ^[h]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

⁷^(M)What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^(N)^[i]Far from it! On the contrary, ^(O)I would not have come to know sin except ^[j]through the Law; for I would not have known about ^[k]coveting if the Law had not said, “^(P)You shall not ^[l]covet.” ⁸But sin, ^(Q)taking an opportunity ^(R)through the commandment, produced in me ^[m]coveting of every kind; for ^(S)apart ^[n]from the Law sin is dead. ⁹I was once alive apart ^[o]from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died; ¹⁰and this commandment, which was ^[p]^(T)to result in life, proved ^[q]to result in death for me; ¹¹for sin, ^(U)taking an opportunity ^(V)through the commandment, ^(W)deceived me, and through it, killed me. ¹²^(X)So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

¹³Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? ^[r]^(Y)Far from it! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by bringing about my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

The Conflict of Serving Two Masters

¹⁴For we know that the Law is ^(Z)spiritual, but I am ^(AA)fleshly, ^(AB)sold ^[s]^(AC)into bondage to sin. ¹⁵For ^(AD)I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing ^(AE)what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^(AF)the Law, that the Law is good. ¹⁷But now, ^(AG)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my ^(AH)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. ¹⁹For ^(AI)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. ²⁰But if I do the very thing I do not want, ^(AJ)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

²¹I find then ^(AK)the ^[t]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. ²²For I joyfully agree with the law of God ^[u]in ^(AL)the inner person, ²³but I see ^(AM)a different law in ^[v]the parts of my body waging war against the ^(AN)law of my mind, and making me a prisoner ^[w]of ^(AO)the law of sin, the law which is in ^[x]my body’s parts. ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^[y]^(AP)the body of this ^(AQ)death? ²⁵^(AR)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh ^(AS)the law of sin.