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

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

For the rulers 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;

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 servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who practices evil.

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

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

Render 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.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who  ¹loves the other has fulfilled the law.

For, “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, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love does not work evil to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

And this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to be raised from sleep; for now is our  ¹salvation nearer than when we believed.

The  ¹night is far advanced, and the day has drawn near. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

Let us walk becomingly as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in fornication and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

But  ¹put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no  ²provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts.

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

One believes that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables.

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

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.

One judges one day above another; another judges every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

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

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

For whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the Lord's.

For Christ died and lived again for this, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

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

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

So then each one of us will give an account concerning himself to God.

Therefore let us judge one another no longer, but rather judge this: not to put a stumbling block or cause of falling before your brother.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing  ¹unclean of itself, except to him who considers something to be  ¹unclean; to that man it is  ¹unclean.

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

Therefore do not let your good be slandered;

For the  ¹kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but  ²righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

So then let us  ¹pursue the things of peace and the things for building up one another.

Do not break down the  ¹work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for a man to eat while stumbling others.

It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind toward one another according to  ¹Christ Jesus,

That  ¹with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

For I say that Christ has become a  ¹servant of the circumcision for the sake of God's  ²truthfulness, to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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

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

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

And again, Isaiah says, “There shall be the  ¹root of Jesse, even He who rises to rule the Gentiles; on Him will the Gentiles hope.”

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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.

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

That I might be a  ¹minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a  ²laboring  ³priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

I have therefore my  ¹boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not accomplished through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and by work,

In the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about to  ¹Illyricum, I have  ²fully preached the gospel of Christ,

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

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

For this reason also I have been hindered these many times from coming to you.

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

Whenever I may go to Spain, for I hope to see you in passing and be sent forward there by you, if first I am filled, at least in part, by your company.

But now I am going to Jerusalem,  ¹ministering to the saints.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some  ¹contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

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

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

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

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

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

So that coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may refresh myself and rest with you.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

I  ¹commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the  ²church which is in Cenchrea,

That you receive 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.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

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

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

Greet Mary, one who has labored much for us.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

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

Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet  ¹those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

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

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother as well as  ¹mine.

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

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

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the  ¹churches of Christ greet you.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to mark those who make divisions and causes of  ¹stumbling contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and  ²turn away from them.

For such men do not  ¹serve our Lord Christ, but their own  ²stomach, and through smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the  ³simple.

For the report of your obedience 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.

Now the God of peace will  ¹crush Satan under your feet shortly. The  ²grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as well as Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

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

Gaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus the brother.

[Some ancient MSS add v.24, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]

Now to Him who is able to  ¹establish you according to  ²my gospel, that is, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the  ³mystery, which has been kept in silence in the  ⁴times of the ages

But has now been manifested, and through the prophetic writings, according to the command of the  ¹eternal God, has been made known to all the Gentiles for the obedience of faith;

To the only  ¹wise God through Jesus Christ, to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.