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So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.

For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.

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.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

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.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

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.

I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

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

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

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

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.