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for as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office:

have the same respect for one another. let not your behaviour be haughty, but soften'd to the condition of those below you. be not wise in your own conceits.

Render no man evil for evil. mind such things as are approved not only by God, but by men.

dear brethren, avenge not yourselves, but leave that to the resentment of another: for it is written , "vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head .

Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers. for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God.

so that he who opposes the ruler, disobeys the orders of God: and will be punished too for resisting, by those very powers.

for his administration is appointed by God for your good. but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors.

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

loves others hath fulfilled the law. for this, "thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet;" and whatever social precept there be, it is reduced to this single head,

Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.

let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.

who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him.

one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike. let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind.

he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

for it is written , "as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."