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For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.

For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles and will sing to thy name.

For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to you and have been kept away till now.

For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.

For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also.

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

For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good and simple in evil.

(Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

To God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.