Romans 12-16

Darby Translation

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of [your] mind, that ye may prove what [is] the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

³ For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

⁴ For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

⁵ thus we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.

⁶ But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether [it be] prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;

⁷ or service, [let us occupy ourselves] in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

⁸ or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.

⁹ Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

¹⁰ as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

¹¹ as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

¹² As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

¹³ distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

¹⁴ Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

¹⁶ Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

¹⁷ recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

¹⁸ if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.

²⁰ If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

²¹ Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

13 Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above [him]. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

² So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who [thus] resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

³ For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil [one]. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise [what is] good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

⁴ for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

⁵ Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

⁶ For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing.

⁷ Render to all their dues: to whom tribute [is due], tribute; to whom custom, custom; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.

⁸ Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

⁹ For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰ Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore [is the] whole law.

¹¹ This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.

¹² The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

¹³ As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to [fulfil its] lusts.

14 Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to [the] determining of questions of reasoning.

² One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

³ Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

⁴ Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁵ One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

⁶ He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

⁸ For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.

⁹ For to this [end] Christ has died and lived [again], that he might rule over both dead and living.

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

¹¹ For it is written, *I* live, saith [the] Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

¹² So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God.

¹³ Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man [it is] unclean.

¹⁵ For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

¹⁶ Let not then your good be evil spoken of;

¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For he that in this serves the Christ [is] acceptable to God and approved of men.

¹⁹ So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

²⁰ For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil to that man who eats while stumbling [in doing so].

²¹ [It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

²² Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

²³ But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because [it is] not of faith; but whatever [is] not of faith is sin.

15 But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

² Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

³ For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

⁴ For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

⁵ Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

⁶ that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to [the] glory of God.

⁸ For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

⁹ and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among [the] nations, and will sing to thy name.

¹⁰ And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all [ye] nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

¹² And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall [the] nations hope.

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit.

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

¹⁵ But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁶ for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed,

¹⁹ in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

²⁰ and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

²¹ but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

²² Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

²³ But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,

²⁴ whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

²⁵ but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

²⁶ for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem.

²⁷ They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

²⁸ Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

²⁹ But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in [the] fulness of [the] blessing of Christ.

³⁰ But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

³¹ that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

³² in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.

³³ And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

16 But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

² that ye may receive her in [the] Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

³ Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus,

⁴ (who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

⁵ and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is [the] first-fruits of Asia for Christ.

⁶ Salute Maria, who laboured much for you.

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

⁸ Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

⁹ Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

¹⁰ Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who belong to Aristobulus.

¹¹ Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.

¹² Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in [the] Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in [the] Lord.

¹³ Salute Rufus, chosen in [the] Lord; and his mother and mine.

¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them.

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

¹⁶ Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

¹⁷ But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.

¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

¹⁹ For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise [as] to that which is good, and simple [as] to evil.

²⁰ But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

²¹ Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

²² I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in [the] Lord.

²³ Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus.

²⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.

²⁵ Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery, as to which silence has been kept in [the] times of the ages,

²⁶ but [which] has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations—

²⁷ [the] only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.