the speaker his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal, the superintendent must be in earnest, the sick visitor must be cheerful.

Every subject must obey the government-authorities, for no authority exists apart from God; the existing authorities have been constituted by God.

You must be obedient, therefore, not only to avoid the divine vengeance but as a matter of conscience,

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.

Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind;

Your rights must not get a bad name.

Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;

Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

So you must not boast about men. For all belongs to you;

Now in this matter of stewards your first requirement is that they must be trustworthy.

Outsiders it is no business of mine to judge. No, you must judge those who are inside the church, for yourselves;

The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

To other people I would say (not the Lord): ??if any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and if she consents to live with him, he must not put her away;

and if any wife has a husband who is not a believer, and if he consents to live with her, she must not put her husband away.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

Everyone must remain in the condition of life where he was called.

(for you were bought for a price; you must not turn slaves to any man).

Brothers, everyone must remain with God in the condition of life where he was called.

At the same time, if any man considers he is not behaving properly to the maid who is his spiritual bride, if his passions are strong and if it must be so, then let him do what he wants ??let them be married; it is no sin for him.

A woman is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if he dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases ??only, it must be a Christian.

It is written in the law of Moses, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain. Is God thinking here about cattle?

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents.

And you must not murmur, as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by the destroying angel.

Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own.

But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account ??29 his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?

Therefore, in view of the angels, woman must wear a symbol of subjection on her head.

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

and if anyone is hungry let him eat at home. You must not gather, only to incur condemnation. I will give you my instructions upon the other matters when I come.

Thus a man who speaks in a 'tongue' must pray for the gift of interpreting it.

Should a revelation come to one who is seated, the first speaker must be quiet.

women must keep quiet at gatherings of the church. They are not allowed to speak; they must take a subordinate place, as the Law enjoins.

For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet.

For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality;

With regard to the collection for the saints, you must carry out the same arrangements as I made for the churches of Galatia.

surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory.

Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.

For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.

Those who are taught must share all the blessings of life with those who teach them the Word.

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all ??18 and you in turn must rejoice and congratulate me.

For all those of our number who are mature, this must be the point of view; God will reveal that to any of you who look at things differently.

Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained.

So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

Also, let the peace of Christ be supreme within your hearts ??that is why you have been called as members of the one Body. And you must be thankful.

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers,

Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.

A woman must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive;

I allow no woman to teach or dictate to men, she must keep quiet.

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;

also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil.

they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience.

They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons.

Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

Widows who really need it must be supported from the funds.

(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

she must have a reputation for good service, as a woman who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved distress, and interested herself in all good works.

As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. ??16 Any believer, man or woman, who has widowed relatives, must give them relief; the church is not to be burdened with them; she has to relieve the widows who really need relief.

Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain, and A workman deserves his wages.

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

If we have food and clothes, we must be content with that.

The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;

he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition ??God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

[For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine.

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work,

they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.

We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer.

but the second tent is entered only once a year by the high priest alone ??and it must not be without blood, which he presents on behalf of himself and the errors of the People.

Thus, in the case of a will, the death of the testator must be announced.

and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole.