Romans 13-14

Romans 13

¹Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

²Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

³For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:

⁴for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.

⁵Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience sake.

⁶For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.

⁷Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

⁸Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.

⁹For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

¹¹And this, knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.

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

¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

Romans 14

¹But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not to doubtful disputations.

²One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

³Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

⁴Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.

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

⁶He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

⁷For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.

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

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

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

¹¹For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.

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

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

¹⁴I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

¹⁷for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

¹⁹So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

²⁰Overthrow not for meat’s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

²¹It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

²²The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.

²³But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.