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

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

Then don't let your good be slandered,

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him."

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