Old/New Testament
49 Hear this, all you people! Give ear, all you who dwell in the world,
2 low as well as high, both rich and poor!
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart is of knowledge.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable and utter my high saying upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the evil days, when the iniquity at my heels shall surround me?
6 They trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
7 Yet a man can by no means redeem his brother. He cannot give his ransom to God,
8 (so precious is the redemption of their souls, and ceases forever)
9 so that he may yet live forever and not see the grave.
10 For he sees that wise men die; and also that the ignorant and foolish perish and leave their riches for others.
11 They think their houses and their habitations shall continue forever, from generation to generation. And they call their lands by their names.
12 But man shall not continue in honor. He is like the beasts that die.
13 This is the way of those who utter foolishness. Their posterity delights in their talk. Selah.
14 Like sheep they lie in the grave. Death devours them. And the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning. For their beauty shall be consumed, from their house to grave.
15 But God shall deliver my soul from the power of the grave; for He will receive me. Selah.
16 Do not be afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his House is increased.
17 For he shall take nothing away when he dies, nor shall his pomp descend after him.
18 For while he lived, he rejoiced over himself (and men will praise you when you make much of yourself).
19 He shall enter into the generation of his fathers. They shall not live forever.
20 An honored man who does not understand; he is like beasts that perish. A Psalm of Asaph.
50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.
3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.
4 He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.
5 “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak. Hear, O Israel, and I will testify to you. I am God. Your God.
8 “I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings continually before me.
9 “I will take no bullock out of your house, nor goats out of your folds.
10 “For all the beasts of the forest are Mine, the beasts on a thousand mountains.
11 “I know all the birds on the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12 “If I am hungry, I will not tell you. For the world is Mine and all that therein is.
13 “Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 “Offer praise to God; and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 “And call upon Me on the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you shall glorify Me.”
16 But to the wicked God said, “Why have you declared My ordinances, that you would take My Covenant in your mouth,
17 “seeing you hate to be reformed and have cast My words behind you?
18 “For when you see a thief, you run with him; and you are partaker with the adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth to evil; and with your tongue you forge deceit.
20 “You sit and speak against your brother and slander your mother’s son.
21 “These things you have done; and I held My tongue. Therefore, you thought that I was like you. But I will rebuke you and set them in order before your eyes.
22 “Oh, consider this, you who forget God; lest I tear you in pieces and there are none who can deliver you.
23 “He who offers praise shall glorify Me. And to him who sets his way aright, I will show the salvation of God.” To him who excels: A Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone into Bathsheba.
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to preach the Gospel of God
2 (which He had promised before by his Prophets in the Holy Scriptures);
3 concerning his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord (Who was made from the seed of David, according to the flesh,
4 and declared mightily to be the Son of God, touching the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead);
5 by Whom we have received grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be given unto the faith) for His Name, among all the Gentiles,
6 among whom you are also called by Jesus Christ.
7 To all at Rome, beloved of God, called to be Saints: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God (through Jesus Christ) for you all, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness (whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you,
10 always imploring in my prayers that by some means, at one time or other, I might have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, that you might be strengthened.
12 That is to say that I might also be comforted with you, through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
13 Now, my brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of how often I have intended to come to you (but have been hindered) that I might also have some fruit among you, as I have among the other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.
15 Therefore, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For by it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who withhold the truth in unrighteousness.
19 Because that which may be known of God is visible among them, for God has shown it to them.
20 For the invisible things of Him - that is, His eternal power and Godhead - are seen by the creation of the world; being perceived in His works, so that they are without excuse.
21 Because when they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful; but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was full of darkness.
22 When they professed themselves to be wise, they became fools.
23 For they turned the Glory of the incorruptible God to the likeness of the image of a corruptible man; and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and of creeping things.
24 Therefore, God also gave them up to the lusts of their hearts—unto uncleanness—to defile their own bodies among themselves.
25 They turned the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.
27 And likewise the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust one toward another. And man committed indecency with man and received in themselves such recompense as was proper for their error.
28 For as they decided not to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to a reprobate mind—to do those things which are not proper—
29 being full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, full of envy, of murder, of strife, of deceit, maliciousness, gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, merciless.
32 Those who, though they knew the Law of God (how that those who commit such things are worthy of death) not only do the same, but also favor those who do them.
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