Romans 15:25 — Romans 16:24

25 But now I am ^agoing to Jerusalem, ^1bministering to the saints.

26 For ^aMacedonia and ^bAchaia have been pleased to make some ¹contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

27 For they were pleased to do it, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have shared in their ^aspiritual things, they ought also to ¹do service to them in material things.

28 When therefore I have finished this and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to ^aSpain.

29 And I know that when I come to you, I will ^acome in the ¹fullness of the blessing of Christ.

30 Now I ^aexhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the ^blove of the Spirit, to ^cstrive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

31 That I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my ^1aservice for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

32 So that coming to you in joy through the ^awill of God, I may ^brefresh myself and rest with you.

33 Now the ^aGod of peace be with you all. Amen.

CHAPTER 16

1 I ¹commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a ^adeaconess of the ²church which is in ^bCenchrea,

2 That you ^areceive her in the Lord in a manner ¹worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been the ²patroness of many, of myself as well.

3 Greet ^aPrisca and ^aAquila, my ^bfellow workers in Christ Jesus,

4 Who ¹risked their own necks for my ²life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the ^3achurches of the Gentiles;

5 And greet the ^1achurch, which is in their ²house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Asia unto Christ.

6 Greet Mary, one who has labored much for us.

7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my ^akinsmen and my ^bfellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

9 Greet Urbanus, our ^afellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

10 Greet Apelles, ¹approved in Christ. Greet ²those of the household of Aristobulus.

11 Greet Herodion, my ^akinsman. Greet ¹those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved sister, one who has labored much in the Lord.

13 Greet ^aRufus, ^bchosen in the Lord, and his mother as well as ¹mine.

14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.

15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.

16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the ^1achurches of Christ greet you.

17 Now I ^aexhort you, brothers, to ^bmark those who make ^cdivisions and causes of ¹stumbling contrary to the ^dteaching which you have learned, and ^2eturn away from them.

18 For such men do not ^1aserve our Lord Christ, but their own ^2bstomach, and through ^csmooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the ³simple.

19 For the report of your ^aobedience has reached to all; therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil.

20 Now the ^aGod of peace will ^1bcrush Satan ^cunder your feet shortly. The ^2dgrace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

21 ^aTimothy, my ^bfellow worker, greets you, as well as Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my ^ckinsmen.

22 I, Tertius, who write this epistle, greet you in the Lord.

23 ^aGaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. ^bErastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus the brother.

24 See note ¹24.

Romans 15:8 — Romans 15:24

8 For I say that Christ has become a ¹servant of the circumcision for the sake of God’s ^2atruthfulness, to confirm the ^bpromises given to the fathers,

9 And that the Gentiles should glorify God for His ^amercy, as it is written, ^b“Therefore I will ¹extol You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to Your name.”

10 And again he says, ^a“Rejoice, Gentiles, with His people.”

11 And again, ^a“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples speak praise to Him.”

12 And again, Isaiah says, ^a“There shall be the ^1broot of Jesse, even He who rises to rule the Gentiles; ^con Him will the Gentiles hope.”

13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and ^apeace in believing, that you may abound in ^bhope in the ^cpower of the Holy Spirit.

14 But I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

15 But I have written the more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you of them again because of the ^agrace given to me by God

16 That I might be a ¹minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a ²laboring ^3apriest of the gospel of God, in order that the ^boffering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been ^csanctified in the Holy Spirit.

17 I have therefore my ^1aboasting in Christ Jesus ^bin the things pertaining to God.

18 For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which ^aChrist has not accomplished through me for the ^bobedience of the Gentiles, by word and by work,

19 In the power of ^asigns and wonders, in the ^bpower of the Spirit of God; so that ^cfrom Jerusalem and round about to ¹Illyricum, I have ^2dfully preached the gospel of Christ,

20 But have done so aspiring to announce the gospel not where Christ has been named, so that I would not build upon ^aanother’s foundation;

21 But as it is written, ^a“They will see, they to whom nothing concerning Him was announced; and those who have not heard will understand.”

22 For this reason also I have been ^ahindered these many times from coming to you.

23 But now I no longer have place in these regions and have had a desire since many years ago to ^acome to you

24 Whenever I may go to ^1aSpain, for I hope to see you in passing and be ^bsent forward there by you, if first I am ^cfilled, at least in part, by your company.

Romans 14:10 — Romans 15:7

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the ^1ajudgment seat of God,

11 For it is written, ^a“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall openly confess to God.”

12 So then each one of us will ^agive an account concerning himself to God.

13 Therefore let us ^ajudge one another no longer, but rather judge this: ^bnot to put a stumbling block or cause of falling before your brother.

14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that there is ^anothing ¹unclean of itself, except to him who considers something to be ¹unclean; to that man it is ¹unclean.

15 For if because of food your brother is ¹wounded, you no longer ^awalk according to love. Do not ^bdestroy by your food that man for whom Christ died.

16 Therefore do not let your ^agood be slandered;

17 For the ^1akingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but ^2brighteousness and ^cpeace and ^djoy in the Holy Spirit.

18 For he who ^1aserves Christ in this is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

19 So then let us ^1apursue the things of peace and the things for ^bbuilding up one another.

20 Do not ^abreak down the ¹work of God for the sake of food. ^bAll things indeed are clean, but it is evil for a man to eat while ^cstumbling others.

21 It is good ^anot to eat meat nor drink wine nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

22 The faith which you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he approves;

23 But he who ^adoubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not out of faith; for all that is not out of faith is sin.

CHAPTER 15

1 But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those who are ^aweak and not to please ourselves.

2 Let each of us please his neighbor with a view to what is good for ^abuilding up.

3 For Christ also did not please Himself, but as it is written, ^a“The reproaches of those who reproached You fell upon Me.”

4 For the things that were ^awritten previously were written for our instruction, in order that through endurance and through the ¹encouragement of the Scriptures we might have ^bhope.

5 Now the ^aGod of endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the ^bsame mind toward one another according to ^1cChrist Jesus,

6 That ¹with ^aone accord you may with ^bone mouth ^cglorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Therefore ^areceive one another, as ¹Christ also received you to the glory of God.

Romans 13:1 — Romans 14:9

1 Let every ¹person be ^2asubject to the authorities over him, for ^bthere is no authority except ³from God, and those which exist are ⁴ordained by God.

2 So then he who resists the authority opposes God’s ordination, and those who oppose will receive ¹judgment to themselves.

3 For the ^arulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you want to have no fear of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from him;

4 For he is a ¹servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, fear; he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is a ¹servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who practices evil.

5 Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.

6 For because of this you also pay taxes; for they are God’s ¹officers, attending constantly to this very thing.

7 ^aRender to all the things due: tax to whom tax is due, custom to whom custom is due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

8 Owe nothing to anyone except to ^alove one another; for he who ¹loves the other has ^bfulfilled the law.

9 For, ^a“You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, ^b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

10 ^aLove does not work evil to his neighbor; therefore love is the ^bfulfillment of the law.

11 And this, knowing the ^atime, that it is already the hour for you to be ^braised from sleep; for now is our ¹salvation ^cnearer than when we believed.

12 The ¹night is far advanced, and the ^aday has drawn near. Let us therefore cast off the ^bworks of darkness, and let us put on the ^cweapons of light.

13 Let us walk becomingly as in the ^aday; not in ^breveling and ^cdrunkenness, not in fornication and licentiousness, not in ^dstrife and ^ejealousy.

14 But ^1aput on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no ²provision for the ^bflesh to fulfill its lusts.

CHAPTER 14

1 ¹Now him who is ^aweak in faith ^2breceive, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his ³considerations.

2 One believes that he may eat all things, but he who is weak ^aeats vegetables.

3 He who eats, let him ¹not despise him who does not eat; and he who does not eat, let him ¹not judge him who eats, for ²God has received him.

4 Who are you who judge another’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 One judges one ^aday above another; another judges every day alike. Let each be fully ^bpersuaded in his own mind.

6 He who regards that day, regards it to the Lord; and he who eats, ^aeats to the Lord, for he gives ^bthanks to God; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

7 For none of us ^alives to himself, and none dies to himself;

8 For whether we live, we ^alive to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the ^bLord’s.

9 For Christ ^adied and lived again for this, that He might be ^bLord both of the dead and of the living.