the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
013:006 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants
of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
013:007 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes
are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect;
honor to whom honor.
013:008 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves
his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
013:009 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery,"
"You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall
not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds
"You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17;
Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are,
are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love
your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
013:010 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment
of the law.
013:011 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you
to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us
than when we first believed.
013:012 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw
off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
013:013 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling
and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts,
and not in strife and jealousy.
013:014 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh, for its lusts.
014:001 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes
over opinions.
014:002 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak
eats only vegetables.
014:003 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat.
Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God
has accepted him.
014:004 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord
he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God
has power to make him stand.
014:005 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every
day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
014:006 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does
not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.
He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.
He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat,
and gives God thanks.
014:007 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
014:008 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die
to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
014:009 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again,
that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
014:010 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again,
why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand
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