7 9 In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath; We spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, 12 That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord, how long? 14 And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, 16 And the years wherein we have seen evil. 17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. GEM XXV. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have eternal life.-John iii, 16. ·GEM XXVI. NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. ROMANS VIII. There is therefore now no condemnation 2 to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but 5 after the spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of 6 the spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the spirit is life and peace: 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law 8 of God, neither indeed can it be: and they 9 that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so. be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, 10 he is none of his. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the 11 spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to 13 the flesh, to live after the flesh: for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye 14 shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 15 For ye receive not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye receive the spirit of 16 adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself beareth witness with our 17 spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and jointheirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us19 ward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons 20 of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of 21 him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the 22 glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travail23 eth in pain together until now. And not only so, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, 24 to-wit, the redemption of our body. For by hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he 25 seeth? But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings 27 which cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for 28 the saints according to the will of God. And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are 29 called according to his purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 30 be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What then shall we say to these things? 32. If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him 33 freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is 34 God that justifieth; who is he that shall condemn? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh 35 intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or naked36 ness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than 38 conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things pres39 ent, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |