Psalm 28

My Strength

Of David.

The Two Foundations

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?^{(A) 47} I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them:^{(B) 48} He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built. ⁴⁹ But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great.”^(C)

The Righteousness of God through Faith

²¹ But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed,^(A) attested by the Law and the Prophets.^{[a](B) 22} The righteousness of God is through faith^(C) in Jesus Christ^[b](D) to all who believe,^(E) since there is no distinction.^{(F) 23} For all have sinned^(G) and fall short of the^[c] glory of God; ²⁴ they are justified freely by his grace^(H) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.^{(I) 25} God presented him as the mercy seat^[d](J) by his blood,^(K) through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God^(L) passed over the sins previously committed.^{(M) 26} God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Boasting Excluded

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting?^(N) It is excluded. By what kind of law?^[e](O) By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law^[f] of faith. ²⁸ For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.^{(P) 29} Or is God the God of Jews only?^(Q) Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, ³⁰ since there is one God^(R) who will justify the circumcised by faith^(S) and the uncircumcised through faith. ³¹ Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not!^(T) On the contrary, we uphold the law.^(U)