Psalm 39:7-13

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⁷“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
    ^(A)My hope is in you.
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions.
    ^(B)Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
⁹^(C)I am mute; I do not open my mouth,
    ^(D)for it is you who have done it.
¹⁰^(E)Remove your stroke from me;
    I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
¹¹When you discipline a man
    with ^(F)rebukes for sin,
you ^(G)consume like a ^(H)moth what is dear to him;
    ^(I)surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

¹²^(J)“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
    and give ear to my cry;
    hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am ^(K)a sojourner with you,
    ^(L)a guest, like all my fathers.
¹³^(M)Look away from me, that I may smile again,
    ^(N)before I depart and ^(O)am no more!”

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Romans 2:1-8

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God's Righteous Judgment

2 Therefore you have ^(A)no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For ^(B)in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. ²We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. ³Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or do you presume on ^(C)the riches of his kindness and ^(D)forbearance and ^(E)patience, ^(F)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are ^(G)storing up ^(H)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

⁶^(I)He will render to each one according to his works: ⁷to those who ^(J)by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸but for those who are self-seeking^[a] and ^(K)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.