³For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and thou shalt have praise from the same.

⁴For he is God’s minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God’s minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.

⁵Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

⁶For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose.

⁷Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

⁸Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.

⁹For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.

¹¹And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

¹²The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

Chapter 14

Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

²For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

³Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

⁴Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

⁵For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.

⁶He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.

⁷For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself.

⁸For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹¹For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God.

¹²Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.

¹³Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother’s way.

¹⁴I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

¹⁹Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.

²⁰Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

²¹It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

²²Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

²³But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

Chapter 15

Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

²Let every one of you please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

³For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

⁴For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.

⁵Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind, one towards another, according to Jesus Christ:

⁶That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

⁸For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

⁹But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles and will sing to thy name.

¹⁰And again he saith: rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people.

¹¹And again: praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles: and magnify him, all ye people.

¹²And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope.

¹³Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

¹⁴And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you that you also are full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able to admonish one another.

¹⁵But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from God,

¹⁶That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁷I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.

¹⁸For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

¹⁹By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ.

²⁰And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man a foundation.

²¹But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

²²For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to you and have been kept away till now.

²³But now, having no more place in these countries and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,

²⁴When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, as I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you.

²⁵But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints.

²⁶For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.

²⁷For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

²⁸When therefore I shall have accomplished this and consigned to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

²⁹And I know that when I come to you I shall come in the abundance of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

³⁰I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

³¹That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.

³²That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

³³Now the God of peace be with, you all. Amen.

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