Romans 8:18-39

New King James Version

From Suffering to Glory

¹⁸For I consider that ^(A)the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹For ^(B)the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰For ^(C)the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; ²¹because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of ^[a]corruption into the glorious ^(D)liberty of the children of God. ²²For we know that the whole creation ^(E)groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. ²³Not only that, but we also who have ^(F)the firstfruits of the Spirit, ^(G)even we ourselves groan ^(H)within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the ^(I)redemption of our body. ²⁴For we were saved in this hope, but ^(J)hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For ^(K)we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but ^(L)the Spirit Himself makes intercession ^[b]for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷Now ^(M)He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints ^(N)according to the will of God.

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those ^(O)who are the called according to His purpose. ²⁹For whom ^(P)He foreknew, ^(Q)He also predestined ^(R)to be conformed to the image of His Son, ^(S)that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰Moreover whom He predestined, these He also ^(T)called; whom He called, these He also ^(U)justified; and whom He justified, these He also ^(V)glorified.

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹What then shall we say to these things? ^(W)If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²^(X)He who did not spare His own Son, but ^(Y)delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? ^(Z)It is God who justifies. ³⁴^(AA)Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, ^(AB)who is even at the right hand of God, ^(AC)who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written:

^(AD)“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

³⁷^(AE)Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor ^(AF)principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

Romans 8:21 decay
Romans 8:26 NU omits for us

Psalm 70-73

New King James Version

Prayer for Relief from Adversaries^(A)

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. ^(B)To bring to remembrance.

70 Make haste, ^(C)O God, to deliver me!
Make haste to help me, O Lord!

²^(D)Let them be ashamed and confounded
Who seek my life;
Let them be ^[a]turned back and confused
Who desire my hurt.
³^(E)Let them be turned back because of their shame,
Who say, ^[b]“Aha, aha!”

⁴Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
And let those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”

⁵^(F)But I am poor and needy;
^(G)Make haste to me, O God!
You are my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, do not delay.

God the Rock of Salvation

71 In ^(H)You, O Lord, I put my trust;
Let me never be put to shame.
²^(I)Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;
^(J)Incline Your ear to me, and save me.
³^(K)Be my ^[c]strong refuge,
To which I may resort continually;
You have given the ^(L)commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

⁴^(M)Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For You are ^(N)my hope, O Lord God;
You are my trust from my youth.
⁶^(O)By You I have been ^[d]upheld from birth;
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
My praise shall be continually of You.

⁷^(P)I have become as a wonder to many,
But You are my strong refuge.
⁸Let ^(Q)my mouth be filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all the day.

⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
¹⁰For my enemies speak against me;
And those who lie in wait for my life ^(R)take counsel together,
¹¹Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

¹²^(S)O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, ^(T)make haste to help me!
¹³Let them be ^[e]confounded and consumed
Who are adversaries of my life;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor
Who seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.
¹⁵My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all the day,
For I do not know their limits.
¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my ^(U)youth;
And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
¹⁸Now also ^(V)when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.

¹⁹Also ^(W)Your righteousness, O God, is ^[f]very high,
You who have done great things;
^(X)O God, who is like You?
²⁰^(Y)You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
^(Z)Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹You shall increase my greatness,
And comfort me on every side.

²²Also ^(AA)with the lute I will praise You—
And Your faithfulness, O my God!
To You I will sing with the harp,
O ^(AB)Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,
And ^(AC)my soul, which You have redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;
For they are confounded,
For they are brought to shame
Who seek my hurt.

Glory and Universality of the Messiah’s Reign

A Psalm ^(AD)of Solomon.

72 Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s Son.
²^(AE)He will judge Your people with righteousness,
And Your poor with justice.
³^(AF)The mountains will bring peace to the people,
And the little hills, by righteousness.
⁴^(AG)He will bring justice to the poor of the people;
He will save the children of the needy,
And will ^[g]break in pieces the oppressor.

⁵^[h]They shall fear You
^(AH)As long as the sun and moon endure,
Throughout all generations.
⁶^(AI)He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing,
Like showers that water the earth.
⁷In His days the righteous shall flourish,
^(AJ)And abundance of peace,
Until the moon is no more.

⁸^(AK)He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.
⁹^(AL)Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him,
^(AM)And His enemies will lick the dust.
¹⁰^(AN)The kings of Tarshish and of the isles
Will bring presents;
The kings of Sheba and Seba
Will offer gifts.
¹¹^(AO)Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him;
All nations shall serve Him.

¹²For He ^(AP)will deliver the needy when he cries,
The poor also, and him who has no helper.
¹³He will spare the poor and needy,
And will save the souls of the needy.
¹⁴He will redeem their life from oppression and violence;
And ^(AQ)precious shall be their blood in His sight.

¹⁵And He shall live;
And the gold of ^(AR)Sheba will be given to Him;
Prayer also will be made for Him continually,
And daily He shall be praised.

¹⁶There will be an abundance of grain in the earth,
On the top of the mountains;
Its fruit shall wave like Lebanon;
^(AS)And those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

¹⁷^(AT)His name shall endure forever;
His name shall continue as long as the sun.
And ^(AU)men shall be blessed in Him;
^(AV)All nations shall call Him blessed.

¹⁸^(AW)Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
^(AX)Who only does wondrous things!
¹⁹And ^(AY)blessed be His glorious name forever!
^(AZ)And let the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

BOOK THREE

Psalms 73–89

The Tragedy of the Wicked, and the Blessedness of Trust in God

A Psalm of ^(BA)Asaph.

73 Truly God is good to Israel,
To such as are pure in heart.
²But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
My steps had nearly ^(BB)slipped.
³^(BC)For I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of the ^(BD)wicked.

⁴For there are no ^[i]pangs in their death,
But their strength is firm.
⁵^(BE)They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued like other men.
⁶Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them ^(BF)like a garment.
⁷^(BG)Their ^[j]eyes bulge with abundance;
They have more than heart could wish.
⁸^(BH)They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They ^(BI)speak ^[k]loftily.
⁹They set their mouth ^(BJ)against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore his people return here,
^(BK)And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
¹¹And they say, ^(BL)“How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
¹²Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who are always at ease;
They increase in riches.
¹³Surely I have ^[l]cleansed my heart in ^(BM)vain,
And washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴For all day long I have been plagued,
And chastened every morning.

¹⁵If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
¹⁶When I thought how to understand this,
It was ^[m]too painful for me—
¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their ^(BN)end.

¹⁸Surely ^(BO)You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
¹⁹Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You awake,
You shall despise their image.

²¹Thus my heart was grieved,
And I was ^[n]vexed in my mind.
²²^(BP)I was so foolish and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
²³Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You hold me by my right hand.
²⁴^(BQ)You will guide me with Your counsel,
And afterward receive me to glory.

²⁵^(BR)Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
²⁶^(BS)My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the ^[o]strength of my heart and my ^(BT)portion forever.

²⁷For indeed, ^(BU)those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those who ^[p]desert You for harlotry.
²⁸But it is good for me to ^(BV)draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord God,
That I may ^(BW)declare all Your works.

Footnotes

Psalm 70:2 So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; some Heb. mss., Syr. appalled (cf. 40:15)
Psalm 70:3 An expression of scorn
Psalm 71:3 Lit. rock of refuge or rock of habitation
Psalm 71:6 sustained from the womb
Psalm 71:13 ashamed
Psalm 71:19 great, lit. to the height of heaven
Psalm 72:4 crush
Psalm 72:5 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. They shall continue
Psalm 73:4 pains
Psalm 73:7 Tg. face bulges; LXX, Syr., Vg. iniquity bulges
Psalm 73:8 Proudly
Psalm 73:13 kept my heart pure in vain
Psalm 73:16 troublesome in my eyes
Psalm 73:21 Lit. pierced in my kidneys
Psalm 73:26 Lit. rock
Psalm 73:27 Are unfaithful to You