And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness,

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

And not rather, (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 you should obey it in its lusts.

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

And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them:

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

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;

Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him who eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.

And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people.

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.