Study Desk

returning evil for evil to no one; providing right things before all men. Prov. 3:4

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine," "I will repay," says the Lord. Deut. 32:35

Then "if one hostile to you hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head." Prov. 25:21, 22

Let every soul be subject to higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, but the existing authorities have been ordained by God.

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire not to fear the authority? Do the good, and you will have praise from it;

for it is a servant of God to you for the good. But if you practice evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing bad things .

For on this account you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God, always giving attention to this very thing.

Do not continue to owe no one, nothing, except to love one another. For the one loving the other has fulfilled the Law.

For, "Do not commit adultery," "do not murder," "do not steal," do not bear false witness, "do not lust," Ex. 20:13-15, 17 and if there is any other commandment, in this word it is summed up, inthe words , "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Lev. 19:18

Also this, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for you to be aroused from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make forethought of the flesh, for its lusts.

The one eating, do not despise the one not eating. And the one not eating, do not judge the one eating, for God received him.

Who are you judging another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

For no one of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself.

For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Then both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why also do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For it has been written, "As I live, says the Lord, that every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue confess to God." Isa. 45:23

But if your brother is grieved because of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom Christ died.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.