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count, too, pay tribute also: for they are the public servants of God, attending continually to this very thing. Render, therefore, to all their dues; tribute, to whom tribute is due; custom, to whom custom; fear, to whom fear; honor, to whom honor is due.

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Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law. For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

11 And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed: 12 the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in contention and in envy: 14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

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XIV. 1Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings. One believes that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eats herbs. Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him. Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; indeed, he shall stand, for God is able to make him stand.

"One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind. He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks. For no one lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's. For this very purpose, Christ both died and rose, and lived again, that he might have dominion over the dead and the living.

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10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ. For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 Therefore, every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

13 Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother's way. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore, let not that which is your good be evil spoken of. 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18 For he who serves the Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men. 19 Therefore, let us seek those things that belong to peace, and those that tend to mutual

edification. 20 Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble. 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak. 22 Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves. 23 But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

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XV. But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves. each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification. For. the Christ did not please himself; but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell on me. 4 For the things which were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the patience and the comfort which the scriptures give, may have hope. Now, may the God of peace and comfort make you of the same mind one toward another, according to Christ Jesus; that with one mind and with one voice you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Wherefore, receive one another with kindness, as the Christ has received you, to the glory of God.

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8 Now, I say, that Jesus Christ, as a minister, was of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: For this cause I will give praise to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing. 10 And again he says: Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people. "And again: Praise the Lord, all you Gen

tiles, and applaud him all you peoples. 12 And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to rule the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust. 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in the hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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PART IV.-Conclusion.

And I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of all goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another. 15 Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God, 16 that I might be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 I have, therefore, cause to glory in Christ Jesus in things that pertain to God.

18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient, 19 by the power of signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. So that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of the Christ; 20 so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, fest I should build on another man's foundation; 21 but, as it is written: They to whom he was not preached, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.

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For which reason, also, I have been often hindered from coming to you. 23 But now, having no longer a place in these

regions, and having had for many years a strong desire to come to you, 24 when I make my journey into Spain, I hope, in passing through, to see you, and to be conducted by you on my journey thither, after I am first partly satisfied with your company. 25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem: 27 they have been pleased to do so, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in things pertaining to the flesh. When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain. 29 And I know that in coming to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

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30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me, in your prayers to God for me, 31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that this service of mine, which is for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints; 32 that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed among you. 33 The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

XVI. 1I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea, 2 that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.

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Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus; who, for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only do I give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles:

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epene