Help us, O God, our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and wipe away our sins for your name’s sake. | Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. |
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay and you are our potter; all of us are the work of your hands. | Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. |
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Our God is in heaven; he does whatever he pleases. | Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. |
However, if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all wrongdoing. | If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. |
Teach us to comprehend how few our days are so that our hearts may be filled with wisdom. | So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. |
It was for this purpose that he called you through our gospel so that you might come to share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. | For this purpose he called you through our proclamation of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
But he was pierced for our offenses and crushed for our iniquity; the punishment that made us whole fell upon him, and by his bruises we have been healed. | But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. |
Although it was our afflictions that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, we thought of him as stricken, as struck down by God and afflicted. | Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. |
To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. | To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. |
Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. | Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. |
Indeed, who is God except the Lord? Who is the Rock besides our God? | For who is God except the Lord? And who is a rock besides our God? |
Let us examine and test our ways and return to the Lord. | Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord. |
For who is God except the Lord? Who is a rock aside from our God? | For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? |
You will again show us compassion and wash away our guilt; you will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. | He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. |
Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outer self is continuing to decay, our inner self is being renewed day by day. | So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. |
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
He is himself the sacrifice for our sins— and not only for our sins but also for the sins of the whole world. | And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. |
Come forth! Let us bow down to worship him; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker. | O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! |
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. | But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God. | It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God. |
The grass may wither and the flower may fade, but the word of our God will endure forever. | The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever. |
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord, our God. | Some take pride in chariots, and some in horses, but our pride is in the name of the Lord our God. |
This is how we know what love is: he laid down his life for us, and we in turn must be prepared to lay down our lives for our brethren. | We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. |
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. | As far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us. |
The Lord commanded us to observe all of these statutes and to fear the Lord, our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, even as we are today. | Then the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our lasting good, so as to keep us alive, as is now the case. |