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Romans 13

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Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

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Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

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For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,

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for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.

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Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

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For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

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Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

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

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The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;

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the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;

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let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 14

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As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions.

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One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.

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Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him.

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Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.

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One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

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He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.

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

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If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

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

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Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;

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for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

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So each of us shall give account of himself to God.

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Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

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I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.

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If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.

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So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

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For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;

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he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

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Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

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Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what he eats;

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it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

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The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves.

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But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

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