Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

Rom 12:2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Rom 12:3  For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Rom 12:4  For even as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function,

Rom 12:5  so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another.

Rom 12:6  Then having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

Rom 12:7  or ministry, in the ministry; or he who teaches, in the teaching;

Rom 12:8  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.

Rom 12:9  Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

Rom 12:10  in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

Rom 12:11  As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Rom 12:12  rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer,

Rom 12:13  distributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

Rom 12:14  Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.

Rom 12:15  Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones;

Rom 12:16  minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not be wise within yourselves.

Rom 12:17  Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Rom 12:18  If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men.

Rom 12:19  not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."

Rom 12:20  Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

Rom 12:21  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome

 

Rom 13:1  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.

Rom 13:2  So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.

Rom 13:3  For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

Rom 13:4  For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.

Rom 13:5  Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

Rom 13:6  For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.

Rom 13:7  Therefore give to all their dues; to the one due tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute is due, fear to whom fear is due, and honor to whom honor is due.

Rom 13:8  Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves another has fulfilled the Law.

Rom 13:9  For: "Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not lust;" and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Rom 13:10  Love works no ill to its neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.

Rom 13:11  This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Rom 13:12  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.

Rom 13:13  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.

Rom 13:14  But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

 

 

Rom 14:1  And receive him who is weak in the faith, but not to judgments of your thoughts.

Rom 14:2  For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Rom 14:3  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.

Rom 14:4  Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

Rom 14:5  One indeed esteems a day above another day; and another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

Rom 14:6  He who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

Rom 14:7  For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

Rom 14:8  For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

Rom 14:9  For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Rom 14:10  But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Rom 14:11  For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

Rom 14:12  So then each one of us will give account concerning himself to God.

Rom 14:13  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.

Rom 14:14  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing by itself is common; except to him who esteems anything to be common, it is common.

Rom 14:15  But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

Rom 14:16  Then do not let your good be spoken evil of,

Rom 14:17  for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Rom 14:18  For he who serves Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

Rom 14:19  So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

Rom 14:20  Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.

Rom 14:21  It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Rom 14:22  Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

Rom 14:23  But, the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

 

 

Rom 15:1  Then we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Rom 15:2  Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

Rom 15:3  For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."

Rom 15:4  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Rom 15:5  And may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus,

Rom 15:6  so that with one mind and one mouth you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 15:7  Therefore receive one another as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Rom 15:8  And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Rom 15:9  and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

Rom 15:10  And again He says, "Rejoice, O nations, with His people."

Rom 15:11  And again, "Praise the Lord, all the nations, and praise Him, all the peoples."

Rom 15:12  And again Isaiah says, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust."

Rom 15:13  And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Rom 15:14  And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Rom 15:15  But, brothers, I wrote to you boldly, as reminding you in part, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

Rom 15:16  that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Rom 15:17  Therefore I have boasting in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God.

Rom 15:18  For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,

Rom 15:19  in power of miracles and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Rom 15:20  Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

Rom 15:21  but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

Rom 15:22  For this cause I also have been greatly hindered from coming to you.

Rom 15:23  But now, having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you,

Rom 15:24  whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.

Rom 15:25  But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

Rom 15:26  For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints in Jerusalem.

Rom 15:27  Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.

Rom 15:28  Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain.

Rom 15:29  And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

Rom 15:30  But I exhort you, brothers, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Rom 15:31  that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;

Rom 15:32  so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

Rom 15:33  Now may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

 

 

 

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the Law?

Mat 22:37  Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.

Mat 22:39  And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

 

 

 

 

 

Guidelines to true Christian living

2Ti 3:16  All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

2Ti 3:17  that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished to every good work.

2Co 9:6  But I say this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

2Co 9:7  Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2Co 9:8  And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;

2Co 9:9  As it is written, "He scattered; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever."

2Co 9:10  Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

2Co 9:11  you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which works out thanksgiving to God through us.

2Co 9:12  For the ministry of this service not only supplies the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,

2Co 9:13  through the proof of this ministry they glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,

2Co 9:14  and in their prayer for you, who long after you, because of the exceeding grace of God on you.

2Co 9:15  Thanks be to God for His unspeakable free gift.