12:1I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;
12:2and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
12:3For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
12:4for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
12:5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.
12:6And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'
12:7or ministration -- `In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!'
12:8or he who is exhorting -- `In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- `In simplicity!' he who is leading -- `In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- `In cheerfulness.'
12:9The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
12:10in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;
12:11in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
12:12in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
12:13to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
12:14Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;
12:15to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,
12:16of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
12:17giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.
12:18If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;
12:19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine,
12:20I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;
12:21Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.
13:1Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,
13:2so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.
13:3For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,
13:4for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.
13:5Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,
13:6for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;
13:7render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.
13:8To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,
13:9for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
13:10the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.
13:11And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;
13:12the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
13:13as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
13:14but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
14:1And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;
14:2one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
14:3let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.
14:4Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
14:5One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day alike; let each in his own mind be fully assured.
14:6He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard it, and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.
14:7For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;
14:8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
14:9for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.
14:10And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;
14:11for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'
14:12so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;
14:13no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.
14:14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;
14:15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
14:16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,
14:17for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
14:18for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.
14:19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
14:20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.
14:21Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
14:22Thou hast faith! to thyself have it before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,
14:23and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.
15:1And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
15:2for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,
15:3for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'
15:4for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
15:5And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;
15:6that with one accord -- with one mouth -- ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;
15:7wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.
15:8And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,
15:9and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'
15:10and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'
15:11and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;'
15:12and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations -- upon him shall nations hope;'
15:13and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;
15:15and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,
15:16for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,
15:18for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
15:19in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;
15:20and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --
15:21but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'
15:22Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,
15:23and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,
15:24when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.
15:25And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;
15:26for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem;
15:27for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.
15:28This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;
15:29and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
15:30And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,
15:31that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that is for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;
15:32that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,
15:33and the God of the peace be with you all. Amen.
16:1And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --
16:2that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.
16:3Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus --
16:4who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations --
16:5and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.
16:6Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;
16:7salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.
16:8Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;
16:9salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;
16:10salute Apelles, the approved in Christ; salute those of the household of Aristobulus;
16:11salute Herodion, my kinsman; salute those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord;
16:12salute Tryphaena, and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord; salute Persis, the beloved, who did labour much in the Lord.
16:13Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,
16:14salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren with them;
16:15salute Philologus, and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them;
16:16salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.
16:17And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;
16:18for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
16:19for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
16:20and the God of the peace shall bruise the Adversary under your feet quickly; the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!
16:21Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;
16:22I Tertius salute you (who wrote the letter) in the Lord;
16:23salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,
16:24the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
16:25And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,
16:26and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
16:27to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him be glory to the ages. Amen.