Day 201 The Bible in a Year (Orthodox canon)

Psalm 81 (82)

1 A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods. 2 How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. 3 Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. 4 Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. 5 They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High. 7 But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

Psalm 82 (83)

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. 2 O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God. 3 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 4 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints. 5 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 6 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee; 7 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 9 Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. 10 Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. 11 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. 12 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes: 13 who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. 14 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. 15 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; 16 so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger. 17 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord. 18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. 19 And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 83 (84)

1 For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses. 2 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 3 My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God. 4 Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. 5 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause. 6 Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up 7 the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings. 8 They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. 9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause. 10 Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 11 For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. 12 For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. 13 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.

Romans 6

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.