Psalm 116:1-2

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Psalm 116

¹I love the Lord,^(A) for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry^(B) for mercy.^(C)
²Because he turned his ear^(D) to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.

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Psalm 116:12-19

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¹²What shall I return to the Lord
for all his goodness^(A) to me?

¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name^(B) of the Lord.
¹⁴I will fulfill my vows^(C) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵Precious in the sight^(D) of the Lord
    is the death of his faithful servants.^(E)
¹⁶Truly I am your servant, Lord;^(F)
    I serve you just as my mother did;^(G)
    you have freed me from my chains.^(H)

¹⁷I will sacrifice a thank offering^(I) to you
    and call on the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will fulfill my vows^(J) to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹in the courts^(K) of the house of the Lord—
    in your midst, Jerusalem.^(L)

Praise the Lord.^[a]

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Psalm 116:19 Hebrew Hallelu Yah

Genesis 21:1-7

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The Birth of Isaac

21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah^(A) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.^(B) ²Sarah became pregnant and bore a son^(C) to Abraham in his old age,^(D) at the very time God had promised him.^(E) ³Abraham gave the name Isaac^[a]^(F) to the son Sarah bore him. ⁴When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him,^(G) as God commanded him. ⁵Abraham was a hundred years old^(H) when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,^(I) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” ⁷And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”^(J)

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Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.

Romans 4:1-12

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Abraham Justified by Faith

4 What then shall we say^(A) that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh,^(B) discovered in this matter? ²If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God.^(C) ³What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”^[a]^(D)

⁴Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift^(E) but as an obligation. ⁵However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.^(F) ⁶David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

⁷“Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
⁸Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”^[b]^(G)

⁹Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?^(H) We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.^(I) ¹⁰Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! ¹¹And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.^(J) So then, he is the father^(K) of all who believe^(L) but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. ¹²And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.