God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein.

considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin.

you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you. now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.

if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.

who hath given any thing to him, and he will repay it?

rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.

let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.

keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience. blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats:

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice: