Psalm 129

English Standard Version

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of ^(A)Ascents.

129 “Greatly^[a] have they ^(B)afflicted me ^(C)from my youth”—
    ^(D)let Israel now say—
²“Greatly have they ^(E)afflicted me ^(F)from my youth,
    ^(G)yet they have not prevailed against me.
³^(H)The plowers plowed ^(I)upon my back;
    they made long their furrows.”
⁴The Lord is righteous;
    he has cut ^(J)the cords of the wicked.
⁵May all who hate Zion
    be ^(K)put to shame and turned backward!
⁶Let them be like ^(L)the grass on the housetops,
    which ^(M)withers before it grows up,
⁷with which the reaper does not fill his hand
    nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
⁸nor do those who pass by say,
    ^(N)“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
    We ^(O)bless you in the name of the Lord!”

Footnotes

Psalm 129:1 Or Often; also verse 2

Psalm 130

English Standard Version

My Soul Waits for the Lord

A Song of ^(A)Ascents.

130 Out of ^(B)the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
² O Lord, hear my voice!
^(C)Let your ears be attentive
to ^(D)the voice of my pleas for mercy!

³If you, O Lord, should ^(E)mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could ^(F)stand?
⁴But with you there is ^(G)forgiveness,
^(H)that you may be feared.

⁵I ^(I)wait for the Lord, ^(J)my soul waits,
    and ^(K)in his word I hope;
⁶my soul ^(L)waits for the Lord
    more than ^(M)watchmen for ^(N)the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷O Israel, ^(O)hope in the Lord!
    For ^(P)with the Lord there is steadfast love,
    and with him is plentiful redemption.
⁸And he will ^(Q)redeem Israel
    from all his iniquities.

Psalm 131

English Standard Version

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

A Song of ^(A)Ascents. Of David.

131 O Lord, my heart is not ^(B)lifted up;
    my eyes are not ^(C)raised too high;
I do not ^(D)occupy myself with things
    too great and ^(E)too marvelous for me.
²But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
    like a weaned ^(F)child with its mother;
    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

³^(G)O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.

Romans 8:1-17

English Standard Version

Life in the Spirit

8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.^[a] ²For the law of ^(A)the Spirit of life ^(B)has set you^[b] free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. ³For ^(C)God has done what the law, ^(D)weakened by the flesh, ^(E)could not do. ^(F)By sending his own Son ^(G)in the likeness of sinful flesh and ^(H)for sin,^[c] he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴in order that ^(I)the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, ^(J)who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵For ^(K)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on ^(L)the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on ^(M)the things of the Spirit. ⁶For to set ^(N)the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷For the mind that is set on the flesh is ^(O)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; ^(P)indeed, it cannot. ⁸Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact ^(Q)the Spirit of God dwells in you. ^(R)Anyone who does not have ^(S)the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. ¹⁰But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹If the Spirit of ^(T)him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus^[d] from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies ^(U)through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ

¹²So then, brothers,^[e] we are debtors, ^(V)not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you ^(W)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all who are ^(X)led by the Spirit of God are ^(Y)sons^[f] of God. ¹⁵For ^(Z)you did not receive ^(AA)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of ^(AB)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ^(AC)“Abba! Father!” ¹⁶^(AD)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷and if children, then ^(AE)heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^(AF)provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

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Footnotes

Romans 8:1 Some manuscripts add who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit)
Romans 8:2 Some manuscripts me
Romans 8:3 Or and as a sin offering
Romans 8:11 Some manuscripts lack Jesus
Romans 8:12 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 29
Romans 8:14 See discussion on “sons” in the Preface