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 <div class="label">9</div><div class="cl">Psalm 9#Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.#In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Death of the Son.&#8221; A psalm of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;</div><div class="q2">I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</div><div class="q1"> 2I will be glad and rejoice in you;</div><div class="q2">I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3My enemies turn back;</div><div class="q2">they stumble and perish before you.</div><div class="q1"> 4For you have upheld my right and my cause,</div><div class="q2">sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.</div><div class="q1"> 5You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;</div><div class="q2">you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.</div><div class="q1"> 6Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,</div><div class="q2">you have uprooted their cities;</div><div class="q2">even the memory of them has perished.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7The Lord reigns forever;</div><div class="q2">he has established his throne for judgment.</div><div class="q1"> 8He rules the world in righteousness</div><div class="q2">and judges the peoples with equity.</div><div class="q1"> 9The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed,</div><div class="q2">a stronghold in times of trouble.</div><div class="q1"> 10Those who know your name trust in you,</div><div class="q2">for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion;</div><div class="q2">proclaim among the nations what he has done.</div><div class="q1"> 12For he who avenges blood remembers;</div><div class="q2">he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13 Lord, see how my enemies persecute me!</div><div class="q2">Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,</div><div class="q1"> 14that I may declare your praises</div><div class="q2">in the gates of Daughter Zion,</div><div class="q2">and there rejoice in your salvation.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;</div><div class="q2">their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.</div><div class="q1"> 16The Lord is known by his acts of justice;</div><div class="q2">the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.#9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.</div><div class="q1"> 17The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,</div><div class="q2">all the nations that forget God.</div><div class="q1"> 18But God will never forget the needy;</div><div class="q2">the hope of the afflicted will never perish.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 19Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph;</div><div class="q2">let the nations be judged in your presence.</div><div class="q1"> 20Strike them with terror, Lord;</div><div class="q2">let the nations know they are only mortal.</div>
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 <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1">Faith or Works of the Law</div><div class="p"> 1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?#3:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit. 4Have you experienced#3:4 Or suffered so much in vain&#8212;if it really was in vain? 5So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6So also Abraham &#8220;believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.&#8221;#3:6 Gen. 15:6</div><div class="p"> 7Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: &#8220;All nations will be blessed through you.&#8221;#3:8 Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18 9So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</div><div class="p"> 10For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: &#8220;Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.&#8221;#3:10 Deut. 27:26 11Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because &#8220;the righteous will live by faith.&#8221;#3:11 Hab. 2:4 12The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, &#8220;The person who does these things will live by them.&#8221;#3:12 Lev. 18:5 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: &#8220;Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.&#8221;#3:13 Deut. 21:23 14He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.</div><div class="s1">The Law and the Promise</div><div class="p"> 15Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say &#8220;and to seeds,&#8221; meaning many people, but &#8220;and to your seed,&#8221;#3:16 Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 24:7 meaning one person, who is Christ. 17What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.</div><div class="p"> 19Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. 20A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.</div><div class="p"> 21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. 22But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.</div><div class="s1">Children of God</div><div class="p"> 23Before the coming of this faith,#3:22,23 Or through the faithfulness of Jesus&#8230; 23 Before faith came we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. 24So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.</div><div class="p"> 26So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham&#8217;s seed, and heirs according to the promise.</div>
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