2 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good, 12:10be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another, 12:11be not slothful in business, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord, 12:12rejoice in the hope, be patient in affliction, be persevering in prayer, 12:13contribute to the necessity of saints, practise hospitality. 12:14Bless those that persecute, bless and curse not. 12:15Rejoice with the rejoicing, weep with the weeping. 12:16Desire the same thing one for another; desire not the high, but be satisfied with the humble. Be not wise in your own conceit. 12:17Render evil for evil to no one, provide things honorable in the sight of all men; 12:18if possible, as much as may be in your power, live peaceably with all men, 12:19not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. 12:20If therefore your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for doing this you shall heap coals of fire on his head. 12:21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
3 13:1Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God. 13:2So that he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on themselves. 13:3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it; 13:4for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil. 13:5Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only on account of punishment, but also on account of conscience.
4 13:6For on this account also you pay taxes; for [magistrates] are servants of God attending constantly to this same thing. 13:7Pay to all their dues; a tax to whom a tax is due, a toll to whom a toll is due, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor. 13:8Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law. 13:9For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 13:10Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law. 13:11And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 13:12The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13:13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy; 13:14but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.
CHAPTER X.
DUTIES TO THE WEAK, ETC.
1 14:1RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings. 14:2For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats vegetables. 14:3Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him. 14:4Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
2 14:5One judges one day to be better than another, but another judges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his mind. 14:6He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks. 14:7For no one of us lives for himself; and no one dies for himself; 14:8for if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 14:9For this end Christ died and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and living. 14:10But why do you judge your brother? why do you set at nought your brother? for we must all stand at the tribunal of God. 14:11For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess to God. 14:12Each of us therefore shall give account of himself to God.
3 14:13Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother. 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled. 14:15For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died. 14:16Let not your good therefore be injuriously spoken of. 14:17For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; 14:18for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men. 14:19Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another. 14:20On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense; 14:21it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles. 14:22You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves; 14:23but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.
4 15:1And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves. 15:2Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification; 15:3for Christ also pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me. 15:4For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope. 15:5And the God of patience and consolation grant you to have the same mind one to another, according to Christ Jesus, 15:6that being of one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mouth.
5 15:7Wherefore receive one another, as Christ also received you to the glory of God. 15:8For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers, 15:9and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing to thy name. 15:10And again he says, Rejoice nations with his people. 15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all nations, and let all peoples praise him. 15:12And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he shall stand up to rule nations, in him shall nations hope. 15:13And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.