to what is good.

Let brotherly love be cordial one to another. Let one precede the other with reverence.

Be not slothful in the things which ye shall do. Be fervent in spirit. Send yourselves into the time.

Be joyful in hope; patient in tribulation, persevering in prayer.

Attend ye to the needs of the saints. Be glad to give hospitality.

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

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

Have one mind among yourselves. Do not seek after high things, but hold yourselves down to the lowly.
(Epistle on the third Sunday after Epiphany.

Think not thyself wise. Do not repay evil with evil. Be diligent to be respectable to everyone.

If it be possible, as much as is in you, be at peace with all men.

Avenge not yourselves, my beloved, but give place unto wrath: for it is written: Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the LORD.

If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. If thou do this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Let not evil overcome thee, but overcome evil with good].
(Romans)
Chapter 13
How to behave against the authorities, your neighbour and yourself.

Let every man be subject unto the authority that hath power over him. For there is no authority without from God; but where there is authority, it is ordained by God.

Whosoever therefore shall set himself in opposition to the authorities, opposeth the ordinance of God: but they that oppose shall receive judgment of themselves.

For the mighty are not to be feared for good works, but for evil. But if thou wilt not fear the
authorities, do good, and thou shalt have praise of them; 4. For she is God’s servant, too good for thee. But if thou do evil, fear: for she beareth not the sword in vain: she is the servant of God, an avenger of punishment upon him that doeth evil.

Be subject therefore for necessity, not for punishment only, but also for conscience’ sake.

For this cause ye must also give them wombs: for they are the servants of God, who shall have such protection.

Render therefore to every man his due: to the womb his due, to the toll his due, to the fear his due, to the honour his due.
Honour is due.
(Epistle on the fourth Sunday after Epiphany.)

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

For that which is said, Thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not lust after any other commandment, is written in this word, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:

Love does no harm to its neighbour. So then, love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Epistle on the first Sunday of Advent.)

And because we know these things, that the time is come for us to awake out of sleep, because our salvation is now nearer than when we believed,

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

Let us walk uprightly as in the day, not in eating and drinking, not in chambering and fornication, not in strife and envying.

But draw ye near unto the Lord Jehovah Christ, and wait for the body, but that it be not made lustful].
(Romans)
Chapter 14
How to act against the weak believers.

Receive him that is weak in faith, and confound not your consciences.

One thinketh he may eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

He that eateth, let him not despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Who art thou that judgest a strange servant? He standeth or falleth before his lord. But he may be raised up: for God is able to raise him up.

One keepeth one day before another: but another keepeth all days alike. Every man is sure of his own mind.

He that keepeth the days doeth it unto the LORD: and he that keepeth nothing doeth it unto the LORD. He that eateth, eateth unto the LORD: for he giveth thanks unto God. He that eateth not eateth not unto the LORD, and giveth thanks unto God.

For ours is not a living unto itself, neither is it a dying unto itself.

If we live, we live unto the LORD: if we die, we die unto the LORD. Dam we live, or die, we are the Lord’s.

For to this end Christ also died, and rose again, and came to life, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? We shall all be presented before the judgment seat of Christ,

Forasmuch as it is written, As I live, saith the LORD, every knee shall bow unto me, and every tongue shall confess unto GOD.

Every man therefore shall give account unto God for himself.

Therefore let us no more judge one another, but rather let us judge, that no man give offence or offense to his brother.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord JESUS, that nothing is common in itself: unless he reckon it common, to him it is common.

But if thy brother be grieved for thy meat, then thou walkest not after love. Dearly beloved, spoil not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Therefore see that your treasure be not blasphemed.

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

Whosoever serveth Christ therein is acceptable unto God, and worthy of men.

Let us therefore strive after those things which make for peace, and for the betterment of one another. Let us therefore pursue that which is for peace, and that which is for the betterment of one another.

Dearly beloved, do not for the food’s sake destroy the work of God. All things are pure, but it is not good for him who eats it with the stumbling of his conscience.

It is better that thou eat no flesh, and drink no wine, or that at which thy brother offendeth, or is vexed, or fainteth.

If thou hast faith, have it with thyself before God. Blessed is he who has no conscience in what he accepts.

But whosoever doubteth, and eateth, is condemned: for it is not of faith. But that which is not of faith is sin.
(Romans)
Chapter 15
Why the weak in faith are to be borne with patience, and how to come to the Christian life.

But we which are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to have pleasure in ourselves.

But let every one of us so set himself to please his neighbour for good, for correction.

For even Christ had no pleasure in himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
(Epistle on the Second Sunday of Advent.)

But those things which are written aforetime are written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

But God of patience and comfort grant you to be of one mind with one another according to JESUS CHRIST,

That ye may with one accord praise God, and the Father of our Lord JEsu Christ.

Receive ye one another, even as Christ received you unto the praise of God.

But I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promise made to the fathers,

And that the heathen should praise God for mercy, as it is written, Therefore will I praise thee among the heathen, and sing unto thy name.

And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

And again, Praise ye the LORD, all ye nations; and glorify him, all ye peoples.

And again saith Isaiah, It shall be the root of Jesse, and he that shall rise again to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.

But may God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may have full hope through the power of the Holy Spirit].

But I know almost well of you, brethren, that ye yourselves are full of knowledge, filled with all understanding, that ye may admonish one another.

Nevertheless I have dared to write something to you, brethren, to remind you, for the grace which is given me of God,

That I should be a minister of Christ among the Gentiles, to offer the gospel of God, that the
Gentiles might become a sacrifice acceptable unto God, sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Therefore I can boast in Jesus Christ, that I serve God.

For I ought not to speak any thing, except the same Christ work through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and work,

By the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and round about, even unto Illyria, I have filled everything with the gospel of Christ,

And made me particularly zealous to preach the gospel where Christ’s name was not known, lest I should build upon a strange foundation.

But as it is written, To whomsoever he hath not spoken, they shall see; and they that have not heard, they shall understand.

This also is the cause why I am often prevented from coming unto you.

But now I have no more room in these lands, but have longed to come unto you from many years:

When I go into Spain, I will come unto you. For I hope to pass through there, and to see you, and to be led thither by you, but first to enjoy