[A Psalm] of instruction for Ethan the Israelite. I will sing of Your mercies, O Lord, forever; I will declare Your truth with my mouth to all generations.

For You have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your truth shall be established in the heavens.

For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth [endures] from generation to generation.

Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for [He is] good; for His mercy [endures] forever.

Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord: for He is good: for His mercy [endures] forever.

Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for His mercy [endures] forever.

To Him who made the heavens by understanding; for His mercy [endures] forever.

To Him who alone made great lights; for His mercy [endures] forever.

The moon and the stars to rule the night; for His mercy [endures] forever.

And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for His mercy [endures] forever;

To Him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for His mercy [endures] forever;

and overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for His mercy endures forever.

To Him who struck down great kings; for His mercy [endures] forever;

Sihon king of the Amorites; for His mercy [endures] forever;

and gave their land [for] an inheritance; for His mercy [endures] forever;

For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy [endures] forever;

Who gives food to all flesh; for His mercy [endures] forever.

The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

But we are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

to which He called you through our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

who having saved us, and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time [itself],

And they shall report His righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

I have brought near My righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from Me; I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for glory.

Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath; for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner; but My righteousness shall not fail.

Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, to seal up transgressions, to blot out iniquities, to make atonement for iniquities, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

O My people, remember now, what counsel Balak king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Gilgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by [the] righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

And look upon Your servants, and upon Your works; and guide their children.

and bestowing mercy on them that love Me, to [the] thousands [of them,] and on them that keep My commandments.

Only the Lord chose your fathers, to love them, and He chose out their seed after them, [even] you, beyond all nations, as it is this day.

But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;

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And we proclaim to you the good news of the promise which was made to the fathers,

"And that He raised Him from the dead, no longer being about to return to corruption, thus He has said: 'I will give you the sure decrees of God concerning David.'

Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,