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Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.

And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people.

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.

Give my love to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.