- Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
- Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
- Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
- But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
- Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
- Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
- One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
- For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
- For it is written,
“‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess to God.’” - Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
- Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
- For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus.
- Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
- Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- That I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
- Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
- And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. - Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
- For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
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The Rock: his work is perfect,for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.