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For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For the mitzvot, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other mitzvot there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

This, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awake out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

But receive him who is weak in faith, not for judging thoughts.

Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

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

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah.

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Messiah died.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, shalom, and joy in the Ruach HaKodesh.

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