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Psalm 66

For the director of music. A song. A psalm.

 ² Sing the glory of his name;
       make his praise glorious!

 ³ Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
       So great is your power
       that your enemies cringe before you.

 ⁴ All the earth bows down to you;
       they sing praise to you,
       they sing praise to your name."
       Selah

 ⁵ Come and see what God has done,
       how awesome his works in man's behalf!

 ⁶ He turned the sea into dry land,
       they passed through the waters on foot—
       come, let us rejoice in him.

 ⁷ He rules forever by his power,
       his eyes watch the nations—
       let not the rebellious rise up against him.
       Selah

 ⁸ Praise our God, O peoples,
       let the sound of his praise be heard;

 ⁹ he has preserved our lives
       and kept our feet from slipping.

 ¹⁰ For you, O God, tested us;
       you refined us like silver.

 ¹¹ You brought us into prison
       and laid burdens on our backs.

 ¹² You let men ride over our heads;
       we went through fire and water,
       but you brought us to a place of abundance.

 ¹³ I will come to your temple with burnt offerings
       and fulfill my vows to you-

 ¹⁴ vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke
       when I was in trouble.

 ¹⁵ I will sacrifice fat animals to you
       and an offering of rams;
       I will offer bulls and goats.
       Selah

 ¹⁶ Come and listen, all you who fear God;
       let me tell you what he has done for me.

 ¹⁷ I cried out to him with my mouth;
       his praise was on my tongue.

 ¹⁸ If I had cherished sin in my heart,
       the Lord would not have listened;

 ¹⁹ but God has surely listened
       and heard my voice in prayer.

 ²⁰ Praise be to God,
       who has not rejected my prayer
       or withheld his love from me!

Psalm 67

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.

 ² that your ways may be known on earth,
       your salvation among all nations.

 ³ May the peoples praise you, O God;
       may all the peoples praise you.

 ⁴ May the nations be glad and sing for joy,
       for you rule the peoples justly
       and guide the nations of the earth.
       Selah

 ⁵ May the peoples praise you, O God;
       may all the peoples praise you.

 ⁶ Then the land will yield its harvest,
       and God, our God, will bless us.

 ⁷ God will bless us,
       and all the ends of the earth will fear him.

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Romans 7

An Illustration From Marriage

 ⁴So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. ⁵For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,^[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

Struggling With Sin

 ¹¹For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. ¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. ¹³Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

 ¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

 ²¹So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being I delight in God's law; ²³but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? ²⁵Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
      So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.