The influence of grace. receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

18 Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon alle men unto justification of life.

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

20 Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might gracem reign, through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus

Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER VI.

WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that dead? to sin, live any longer therein?

are

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are burieds with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the" glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

A.D. 60.

a John 10. 10. b chap. 6. 23. Bor, by one offence.

c verse 16. yor, to.

d chap. 7. 5. dor, by one righteous

ness.

e John 12.32.

chap. 1. 32.

Ja. 1. 15.

John 15.23.

Ga. 3. 19. h Ge. 2. 17. i John 10. 10. 1 Ti. 1. 14.

ch.5. 17, 21.

11 Pe. 1. 4. m John 1. 17. n chap. 3. 8. 01 Co. 7.39.

P ver. 6..11.
Col. 3. 3.

1 Pe. 2. 24. ¿or, are.

q Mat. 5. 32.

1 Co. 15. 29. Col. 2. 12. 1 Pe. 3. 21. t chap. 8. 11.

Mat.28.2,3.

2 Co. 13. 4.

v Ga. 6. 15.

Ep.4.22..24. 1 John 2. 6. w Phi. 3. 10. * Ga. 5. 18.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him': 9 Knowing that Christ, being raised Ga. 5. 22. from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died sin once but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

unto

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

* Col. 2. 11. a ch. 8. 8, 9.

passions. 1 Pe. 4. 1. 0 or, justified. chap. 6. 21. K or, being dead to that.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it ind Re. 1. 18. the lusts thereof.

as

13 Neither yield ye your members' Minstruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield myourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine P which was delivered you.

18 Being then made freet from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members ser

• He. 9. 28.

chap. 3. 20. λor, concupiscence. Ex. 20. 17. verse 2.

i Ga. 2. 19. k Ps. 19. 13. 119. 133.

Col. 3. 5.

arms, or,

weapons.

m chap. 12. 1.

n Eze. 20. 11,

&c.

o Mi. 7. 19.

Ps. 19. 7..9. John 8. 34. 2 Pe. 2. 19. r2 Ki. 17. 17. know.

2 Ti. 1. 13. p whereto ye were delivered.

t John 8. 32. " Ge. 6. 5.

The use of the law. vants to uncleanness and to iniquity, unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free Y from righteousness.

21 What fruitd had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life,' through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAPTER VII.

KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband, so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

she be married to another man, she shall 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruity unto God.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life," I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold' under sin.

15 For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law, that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to

The Believer's privileges, will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

infirmities and triumph. compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him

22 For I delightd in the law of God after the inwarde man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from y the body of this death ?* 25 Im thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I self serve the law of God; but with the

flesh the law of sin.

CHAPTER VIII.

my

THERE is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life" in Christ Jesus hath made me freet from the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law could not" do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son" in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the might be fulfilled in us, who walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

law

not

5 For they that are after the flesh a do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be carnally minded is death;d but to be spiritually minded is life and

peace:

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he" that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies * by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondaget again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption," whereby Abba, Father.

we ce Spirit itself beareth witness with

16

our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan' within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption" of our body.

24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us ?

32 He that spared not his own Son, shall he not with him also freely give but delivered him up for us all, how us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? Itm is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him " that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

any

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Divine sovereignty. conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3 For I could wish that myself were Baccursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

δ

A. D. 60.

a Is. 10.22,23. b Ex. 32. 32. Bor, sepa

rated.

yor, the account.

c De. 7. 6.

Is. 60. 19.

testa

4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and d Ps. 90. 16. the service of God, and the promises;i 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom,m8or, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6 Not as though the word of God hath Ge. 17. 2. taken? none effect. Forr they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

ments.

e Is. 28. 22.

De. 29. 14. Je. 31. 33. g chap. 3. 2. Ps. 147. 19. Ex. 12. 25. i Ep. 2. 12. * Is. 1. 9.

La. 3. 22.

chap.11.28.

n Ge.19.24,25 Is. 13. 19.

• John 1. 1.

9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. 10 And not only this; but when Re-chap. 10.20. becca also had conceived by one, even q Is. 55. 11. by our father Isaac ; r ch. 2. 28, 29. chap. 1. 17.

11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ;)

12 It was said unto her, The Selder shall serve the younger.

13 As it is written," Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, Id will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will?

20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ?

the

8

Phi. 3. 9.

t chap. 10. 2.

11.7.

u Ge. 21. 12.

v Ga. 4. 28.

Ge. 18. 10, 14. Ps. 118. 22. Is. 8. 14. e or, confounded.

y Ge. 25.21,23 ¿or, greater.

chap. 9. 31. Ac. 21. 20. nor, lesser.

a Mal. 1.2, 3.

chap. 9. 30.

c De. 32. 4.

dEx. 33. 19.

e He. 10. 14.

f Le. 18. 5. g De. 30. 12..

14.

h Ex. 9. 16.

1 John 4.2.

k2 Ch. 20. 6. Da. 4. 35.

1 Ac. 8. 37. e or, answerest again; or, disputest with God.

m Is. 29. 16. n Is. 64. 8. o Is. 28. 16. 49.23.

Ga. 3. 28. 7 Pr. 16. 4. r1 Ti. 2. 5.

21 Hath not the potter" power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his "Ac. 15. 9. wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24_Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles ?

25 As he saith also in Osee,* I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

26 And it shall come to pass, that in the

Kor,made up. 2 Ti. 2. 20.

t Joel 2. 32. u 1 Co. 1. 2. Ep. 1. 18.

w 1 Th. 5. 9. * Ho. 2. 23. y Is. 52. 7.

Na. 1. 15. z Ho. 1. 10.

33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

CHAPTER X.

BRETHREN, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

2 For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above :) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart' that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 Fort whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

An example to the Gentiles.

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes, verily, theird sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nations I will anger you.

A. D. 60.

Bor, for. a Ac. 28. 24.

20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that askede not after me.

21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. CHAPTER XI.

I SAY then, Hath Godm cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." Wot ye not what the scripture saith Sof Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

6 And if by grace," then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

7 What then? Israel" hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were • blinded

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes" that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness?

13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office;

14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

17 And if some of the branches" be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive

He. 4. 2. b Is. 53. 1.

Jno. 12. 38. y the hearing of us. &or, preaching.

c1 Co. 10. 12.

d Ps. 19. 4.

Mat. 28. 19. Col. 1.6,23. Phi. 2. 12. De. 32. 21. 13. 65. 1, 2.

g Tit. 3. 3.

i He. 3. 6, 14.

10.23,38.

k Jno. 15. 2.

12

Co. 3. 16. m 1 Sa. 12. 22.

Ps. 77. 7, 8.

89.31..37. n chap. 8. 29. Sin.

o1 Ki. 19.10.. 18.

n hardness. P verse 7.

2 Co. 3. 14.

q Lu. 21. 24. r Is. 59. 20. schap. 9. 27. t Je.31.31,&c.

He. 10. 16. u chap. 4.4, 5.

Ga. 5. 4.
Ep. 2. 8.

v De. 10. 15.

w chap. 9. 31. Nu. 23. 19. y Ep. 2. 2. O hardened.

Kor, obeyed. A or, remorse. z Is. 29. 10. a De. 29. 4. Is. 6.9.

Ps.69.22,23. chap. 3. 9.

Ga. 3. 22. μor, shut them all up together.

d Ps.107.8,&c

Job 11. 7.

Ps. 92. 5.

Is. 40. 13.

Je. 23. 18.

chap.10.19.

Ac. 13. 46.

28.24..28.

h Job 41. 11. il Co. 8. 6. Col. 1. 16.

vor, decay,
or, loss.
π him.

k Ac. 9. 15.
Ga. 1. 16.
Ep. 3. 8.

11Co.6.15..20 m1 Co. 7. 16. n1 Jno. 2. 15.

Future conversion of the Jews. tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18 Boaste not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off; and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear;

21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

23 And they also, if they' abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

i

25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that n blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written," There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."

30 For as ye in times" past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

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31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

33 Od the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor ? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to "whom be glory for ever. Amen.

CHAPTER XII.

P Le. 23. 10.

q

113

3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly,

another.

6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it Y with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.*

9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhorm that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

11 Not slothful in business;" fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind" not high things, condescend to men of low estate. not wise in your own conceits.

17 Recompense' to no man evil for evil. Provide thingsm honest in the sight of all

men.

18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably? with all men.

19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves; but rather give place unto wrath:

A. D. 60.

a Ep. 4.7, &c. 1 Co.12.4,12

c Ja. 2. 8.

dEp. 1. 23. Ex. 20. 13,

&c.

f1Pe.4.10,11.

eth.

Le. 19. 18. Mat.22.39,40 Bor, impart y liberally. h1 Th. 5.5..8. Ps. 101.2, &c 2 Co. 9. 7. 11 Pe. 1. 22.

m Ps. 34. 14. Ep. 5. 11. Ep.6.13,&c. p1 Pe. 2. 17.

&or, decently. Phi. 4. 8. 1 Pe. 2. 12. Sor, in the love of the brethren.

r1 Pe. 4. 3.

Christian liberty and charity.

8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

9 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 if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thous shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:

11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake" out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us" therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting" and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. CHAPTER XIV. $1 Pe. 5. 5. HIM that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

t1 Co. 6.9,10. Ac. 20.34,35

v Col. 4. 12.

He. 12. 28. Ga. 3. 27. y chap.5.2,3. z Ja. 1. 4. Ga. 5. 16. 6 Lu. 18. 1. c Ps. 41. 1. He. 13. 16. & He. 13. 2.

1 Pe. 4. 9. e Mat. 5. 44.

nor, not to judge his doubtful thoughts.

2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God" is able to make him stand.

5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

6 He that regardeth the day, regard

20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Bet not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

CHAPTER XIII.

LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? doy that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

g1 Pe. 3. 8. h Je. 45. 5. Oor, be con

tented with mean things. i Is. 5. 21. k Ja. 4. 12. Mat. 5. 39.

• Pr.25.21,22. Mat. 5. 44. t Pr. 16. 32.

v common.

6 Mat. 22. 21. έ according

to charity.

eth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

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

10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

li For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be "unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably.