2 Samuel 22:1-25

New King James Version

Praise for God’s Deliverance^(A)

22 Then David ^(B)spoke to the Lord the words of this song, on the day when the Lord had ^(C)delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. ²And he ^(D)said:

^(E)“The Lord is my rock and my ^(F)fortress and my deliverer;
³The God of my strength, ^(G)in whom I will trust;
My ^(H)shield and the ^(I)horn^[a] of my salvation,
My ^(J)stronghold and my ^(K)refuge;
My Savior, You save me from violence.
⁴I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵“When the waves of death surrounded me,
The floods of ungodliness ^[b]made me afraid.
⁶The ^(L)sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
⁷In my distress ^(M)I called upon the Lord,
And cried out to my God;
He ^(N)heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry entered His ears.

⁸“Then ^(O)the earth shook and trembled;
^(P)The foundations of ^[c]heaven quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
⁹Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And devouring ^(Q)fire from His mouth;
Coals were kindled by it.
¹⁰He ^(R)bowed the heavens also, and came down
With ^(S)darkness under His feet.
¹¹He rode upon a cherub, and flew;
And He ^[d]was seen ^(T)upon the wings of the wind.
¹²He made ^(U)darkness canopies around Him,
Dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹³From the brightness before Him
Coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴“The Lord ^(V)thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice.
¹⁵He sent out ^(W)arrows and scattered them;
Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them.
¹⁶Then the channels of the sea ^(X)were seen,
The foundations of the world were uncovered,
At the ^(Y)rebuke of the Lord,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

¹⁷“He^(Z) sent from above, He took me,
He drew me out of many waters.
¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me;
For they were too strong for me.
¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my ^(AA)support.
²⁰^(AB)He also brought me out into a broad place;
He delivered me because He ^(AC)delighted in me.

²¹“The^(AD) Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the ^(AE)cleanness of my hands
He has recompensed me.
²²For I have ^(AF)kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
²³For all His ^(AG)judgments were before me;
And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
²⁴I was also ^(AH)blameless before Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.
²⁵Therefore ^(AI)the Lord has ^[e]recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to ^[f]my cleanness in His eyes.

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Footnotes

2 Samuel 22:3 Strength
2 Samuel 22:5 Or overwhelmed
2 Samuel 22:8 So with MT, LXX, Tg.; Syr., Vg. hills (cf. Ps. 18:7)
2 Samuel 22:11 So with MT, LXX; many Heb. mss., Syr., Vg. flew (cf. Ps. 18:10); Tg. spoke with power
2 Samuel 22:25 rewarded
2 Samuel 22:25 LXX, Syr., Vg. the cleanness of my hands in His sight (cf. Ps. 18:24); Tg. my cleanness before His word

Romans 15:1-23

New King James Version

Bearing Others’ Burdens

15 We ^(A)then who are strong ought to bear with the ^[a]scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ²^(B)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to ^[b]edification. ³^(C)For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, ^(D)“The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” ⁴For ^(E)whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the ^[c]patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. ⁵^(F)Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, ⁶that you may ^(G)with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Glorify God Together

⁷Therefore ^(H)receive one another, just ^(I)as Christ also received ^[d]us, to the glory of God. ⁸Now I say that ^(J)Jesus Christ has become a ^[e]servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, ^(K)to confirm the promises made to the fathers, ⁹and ^(L)that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written:

^(M)“For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles,
And sing to Your name.”

¹⁰And again he says:

^(N)“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!”

¹¹And again:

^(O)“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you peoples!”

¹²And again, Isaiah says:

^(P)“There shall be a root of Jesse;
And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles,
In Him the Gentiles shall hope.”

¹³Now may the God of hope fill you with all ^(Q)joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

From Jerusalem to Illyricum

¹⁴Now ^(R)I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, ^(S)filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish ^[f]one another. ¹⁵Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, ^(T)because of the grace given to me by God, ¹⁶that ^(U)I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the ^(V)offering ^[g]of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus ^(W)in the things which pertain to God. ¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any of those things ^(X)which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, ^(Y)to make the Gentiles obedient— ¹⁹^(Z)in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. ²⁰And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, ^(AA)lest I should build on another man’s foundation, ²¹but as it is written:

^(AB)“To whom He was not announced, they shall see;
And those who have not heard shall understand.”

Plan to Visit Rome

²²For this reason ^(AC)I also have been much hindered from coming to you. ²³But now no longer having a place in these parts, and ^(AD)having a great desire these many years to come to you,

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Footnotes

Romans 15:1 weaknesses
Romans 15:2 building up
Romans 15:4 perseverance
Romans 15:7 NU, M you
Romans 15:8 minister
Romans 15:14 M others
Romans 15:16 Consisting of

Romans 14:12-23

New King James Version

¹²So then ^(A)each of us shall give account of himself to God. ¹³Therefore let us not judge one another ^[a]anymore, but rather resolve this, ^(B)not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

The Law of Love

¹⁴I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus ^(C)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. ^(D)Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶^(E)Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; ¹⁷^(F)for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and ^(G)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸For he who serves Christ in ^[b]these things ^(H)is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁹^(I)Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which ^(J)one may ^[c]edify another. ²⁰^(K)Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. ^(L)All things indeed are pure, ^(M)but it is evil for the man who eats with ^[d]offense. ²¹It is good neither to eat ^(N)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles ^[e]or is offended or is made weak. ²²^[f]Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. ^(O)Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for ^(P)whatever is not from faith is ^[g]sin.