Thursday 29 October 2009

31What then shall we say about these things?If God is for us, who can be against us?32He who didn’t spare his own Son,but delivered him up for us all,how would he not also with him freely give us all things?33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones?It is God who justifies.34Who is he who condemns?It is Christ who died,yes rather, who was raised from the dead,who is at the right hand of God,who also makes intercession for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?Could oppression, or anguish,or persecution, or famine,or nakedness, or peril, or sword?36Even as it is written,

“For your sake we are killed all day long.We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37No, 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 principalities,nor things present,nor things to come, nor powers,39nor height, nor depth,nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s lovewhich is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

21But deal with me, GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake,because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;22for I am poor and needy.My heart is wounded within me.

26Help me, Lord, my God.Save me according to your loving kindness;27that they may know that this is your hand;that you, Lord, have done it.

30I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth.Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,to save him from those who judge his soul.

31On that same day, some Pharisees came,saying to him, “Get out of here and go away,for Herod wants to kill you.”

32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox,‘Behold, I cast out demonsand perform cures today and tomorrow,and the third day I complete my mission.33Nevertheless I must go on my way todayand tomorrow and the next day,for it can’t bethat a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem,you who kills the prophetsand stones those who are sent to her!How often I wanted to gather your children together,like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!35Behold, your house is left to you desolate.I tell you, you will not see me until you say,‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”