and have become confident that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,

May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."

And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come?" whose condemnation is just.

Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its desires;

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

And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always."

And, having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

or ministry, let us labor in the ministry; or he that teaches, in teaching;

or he that exhorts, in his exhortation; he that imparts, let him do it with liberality; he that presides, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

Let every soul be in subjection to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority, except from God; and the authorities that are have been appointed by God.

The night was far spent, and the day has drawn near; let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him.

One man, indeed, esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way.

Let not, therefore, your good be evil spoken of;

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let all the people extol Him."

who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;