Chapter 14 – Chapter 16

Chapter 14

CHAPTER 14

1 Now him who is weak in faith receiver not for the debatings of questions.

2 Let him indeed who believes eat everything; but he who is weak, eats herbs.

3 Let not him who eats, despise him who abstains; and let not him who abstains, condemn him who eats, since God has received him.

4 Who art thou who judgest the servant of another? to his own Lord he stands or falls: he shall indeed stand, for God is able to make him stand.

5 One indeed esteems a day above a day; but another esteems every day alike: let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind.

6 He who regards a day, regards it for the Lord; and he who regards not a day, regards it not for the Lord: he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, abstains for the Lord, and gives thanks to God;

7 For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself;

8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord; whether then we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose and lived again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or also thou why dost thou despise thy brother? for we must all stand before the tribunal of Christ;

Note 488. The Jewish convert.

Note 489. The Gentile believer.

11 For it is written, “Live do I, saith the Lord; to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

12 Every one of us then shall give an account of himself to God.

13 Let us therefore no more judge one another; but rather judge this, that no occasion of falling or an offense be given to a brother.

14 I know and am persuaded, that in the Lord Jesus nothing is in itself unclean: but he who regards anything unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 But if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest consistently with love: by thy meat destroy not him for whom Christ died.

16 Let not then your good be subject to the evil-speaking of men.

17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy through the Holy Spirit.

18 For he who in these things serves Christ, is acceptable to God and approved by men.

19 Let us then follow the things of peace and of mutual edification:

20 On account of meat destroy not the work of God. All things are indeed pure; but evil it is for man to eat with offense.

21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything, by which thy brother may fall, or be offended, or be weakened.

22 Hast thou faith? Have it for thyself before God: happy is he who condemns not himself in that which he examines

23 But he who is undecided, if he eat, is condemned; for he eats not in faith: and whatsoever is not from faith is sin.

Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15

1 Now we who are able ought to bear the infirmities of the unable, and not to please ourselves:

2 Let indeed each of us please his neighbor for good, to his edification.

3 For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached thee, fell upon me.”

4 For whatsoever things have been before written, have been written for our instruction, that through the patience and consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope:

5 And may the God of patience and of consolation grant you to have the same mind towards one another, according to Christ Jesus,

6 That ye may unanimously, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Receive ye then one another, as Christ has received us, to the glory of God.

8 Now I say, that Jesus Christ became the minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

9 The Gentiles also ought to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, “On this account will I confess to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing”

10 And again he says, “Exult, ye Gentiles, with his people;”

11 And further, “Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and praise him together, all ye nations:”

12 And again Isaiah says, “There shall be the root; of Jesse, and he who shall rise up to reign over the

13 Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.” And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

14 But I am persuaded, my brethren, even I myself, concerning you, that ye are also yourselves full of’ goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able to admonish one another.

15 The more boldly, however, have I written to you, my brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given to me by God,

16 That I should be the minister of Christ to the Gentiles, consecrating the gospel of Christ, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

17 I have therefore reason for glorying, through Jesus Christ, in the things of God.

18 I will not indeed dare to speak anything of those things which Christ has not done through me, as to the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and work,

19 Through the power of signs and of wonders, through the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum,

20 I have spread more fully the gospel of Christ; thus endeavoring to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, that I might not build on another’s foundation;

Note 490. “I have supplemented,” is what Calvin approves: the gospel had already been partially preached, but Paul had filled up or supplied what was deficient.

21 But, as it is written, “They to whom it has not been declared concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.”

22 I have on this account also been often hindered from coming to you,

23 But now, having a place no longer in these regions, and having a desire for many years to come to you,

24 When I go to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope that when I go there I shall see you, and that I shall be brought on my way thither by you, if however I shall first be in part filled by a converse with you.

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

26 For it has pleased Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution to the saints who are at Jerusalem:

27 It has pleased them, I say, and their debtors they are; for if the Gentiles have partaken of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in temporal things.

28 When therefore I shall have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by you to Spain:

29 And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive with me in your prayers for me to God,

31 That I may be delivered from the unbelieving in Judea, and that my service, undertaken for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints;

32 That with joy I may come to you by the will of God, and may, together with you, be refreshed.

33 And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Chapter 16

CHAPTER 16

1 Now I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a deaconess of the Cenchrean Church;

2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as it becomes saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of’ you; for she has been a helper to many, and to me also.

3 Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus,

4 Who for my life laid down their own necks, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the Churches of the Gentiles,

5 And the Church in their house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Achaia in the Lord

6 Salute Mary, who has labored much with us.

7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow-captives, who are celebrated among the Apostles, and who were before me in Christ.

8 Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

9 Salute Urban, our helper in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

10 Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the family of Aristobulus.

11 Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those of the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored much in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who has labored much in the Lord.

13 Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.

15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The Churches of Christ salute you.

17 But I beseech you, brethren, to observe those who stir up divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and to avoid them:

18 For they, who are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but, their own belly; and by courteous language and flattery deceive the hearts of the simple.

19 Your obedience indeed has been published to all: I am therefore glad on your account; but I wish you to be wise for good,

20 And simple for evil. And the God of peace shall shortly bruise Satan under your feet,. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

21 Salute you do Timothy, my fellow-worker, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

22 Salute you do I Terrius, who have written this Epistle, in the Lord.

23 Salute you does Gaius, my host and of the whole Church. Salute you does Erastus, the treasurer of the city, and Quartus a brother.

24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

25 Now to him who is able to confirm you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, which was hid in former ages,

26 But has been now made known, and through the prophetic Scriptures proclaimed, according to the appointment of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith among all nations

27 To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ,, be glory for ever. Amen.

Sent to the Romans, from Corinth, by Phoebe,
a deaconess of the Cenchrean Church.

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