and persuading yourselves to be a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness;

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world?

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law.

Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

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

What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be!

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and their back always bowing."

I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

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

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

One indeed esteems a day above another day; and another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.

Then do not let your good be spoken evil of,

So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.