Psalm 86
1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, ♦
for I am poor and in misery.
2 Preserve my soul, for I am faithful; ♦
save your servant, for I put my trust in you.
3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for you are my God; ♦
I call upon you all the day long.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant, ♦
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
5 For you, Lord, are good and forgiving, ♦
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer ♦
and listen to the voice of my supplication.
7 In the day of my distress I will call upon you, ♦
for you will answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord, ♦
nor any works like yours.
9 All nations you have made shall come and worship you, O Lord, ♦
and shall glorify your name.
10 For you are great and do wonderful things; ♦
you alone are God.
16 Turn to me and have mercy upon me; ♦
give your strength to your servant
and save the child of your handmaid.
17 Show me a token of your favour,
that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; ♦
because you, O Lord, have helped and comforted me.
Romans 6:1b-11
Dying and Rising with Christ
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
