Scripture Psalm 42, Galatians 3:23-29

Psalm 42 NRSVUE - 1  As a deer longs for flowing streams,

    so my soul longs for you, O God.

2  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When shall I come and behold the face of God?

3  My tears have been my food day and night,

while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

4  These things I remember, as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the

house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,

a multitude keeping festival. 5  Why are you cast down, O my

soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God,

for I shall again praise him, my help  6 and my God. My soul

is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the

land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7  Deep

calls to deep at the thunder of your torrents; all your waves

and your billows have gone over me. 8  By day

the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song

is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9  I say to God, my

rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about

mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?” 10  As with a

deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while

they say to me continually, “Where is your God?” 11  Why are

you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted

within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my

help and my God.

Galatians 3:23-29 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

23  Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded

under the law until faith would be revealed.  24  Therefore the

law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we

might be reckoned as righteous by faith.  25  But now that faith

has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,  26  for

in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through

faith.  27  As many of you as were baptized into Christ have

clothed yourselves with Christ.  28  There is no longer Jew or

Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer

male and female, for all of you are one in Christ

Jesus.  29  And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s

offspring, heirs according to the promise.