adultery, You
shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately,
and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in
this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [13:10] Love does
no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law. [13:11]
And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we
should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when
we believed. [13:12] The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand;
let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the
armor of light. [13:13]Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in
revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and
envy; [13:14]but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for desires of the flesh.
CHAPTER X.
DUTIES TO THE WEAK, ETC.
1 [14:1]RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings.
[14:2]For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats
vegetables. [14:3]Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and
let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted
him. [14:4]Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master
he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to
make him stand.
2 [14:5]One judges one day to be better than another, but another
judges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his
mind. [14:6]He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he
that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats
eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats
not to the Lord, and gives God thanks. [14:7] For no one of us lives
for himself; and no one dies for himself; [14:8]for if we live, we live
for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether therefore we
live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's. [14:9]For this end Christ
died and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and
living. [14:10]But why do you judge your brother? why do you set at
nought your brother? for we must all stand at the tribunal of God.
[14:11]For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee
shall bow, and every tongue confess to God. [14:12]Each of us
therefore shall give account of himself to God.
3 [14:13]Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather,
not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother. [14:14]I
know
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