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So then, let us follow after things which make for shalom, and things whereby we may build one another up.

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

For Messiah also didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

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

Now I say that Messiah has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

and that the Goyim might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Goyim, And sing to your name."

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Messiah worked through me, for the obedience of the Goyim, by word and deed,

whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the holy ones who are at Yerushalayim.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Goyim have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Yehudah, and that my service which I have for Yerushalayim may be acceptable to the holy ones;

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the holy ones, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Goyim.

Greet Miryam, who labored much for us.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For your obedience has reached all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise to that which is good, but innocent to that which is evil.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Messiah Yeshua;