Murdock(i)
13 But it is to you Gentiles, I am speaking: as I am a legate to the Gentiles, I honor my ministry;
14 if, perhaps, I may provoke emulation in the children of my flesh, and may vivify some of them.
15 For if the rejection of them, was a reconciliation of the world; what will their conversion be, but life from the dead?
16 For, if the first-fruits are holy, then the mass is also: and if the root is holy, then also the branches.
17 And if some of the branches were plucked off; and thou, an olive from the desert, wast in-grafted in their place, and hast become a participator of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18 do not glory over the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou sustainest not the root, but the root sustaineth thee.
19 And shouldst thou say, The branches were plucked off, that I might be grafted into their place.
20 Very true. They were plucked off, because they believed not; and thou standest by faith. Be not exalted in thy mind, but fear.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
22 Behold now the benignity and the severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but on thee, benignity, if thou continuest in that benignity; and if not, thou also wilt be plucked off.
23 And they, if they do not continue in their destitution of faith, even they will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wast plucked from the wild olive-tree, which was natural to thee, and wast grafted, contrary to thy nature, into a good olive-tree; how much more may they be grafted into their natural olive-tree?
25 And that ye, my brethren, may not be wise in your own apprehension, I wish you to know this mystery, that blindness of heart hath in some measure befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in:
26 and then, will all Israel live. As it is written: A deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away iniquity from Jacob.
27 And then will they have the covenant that proceedeth from me, when I shall have forgiven their sins.
28 Now, in the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but in the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
29 For God is not changeable in his free gift and in his calling.
30 For as ye too were formerly disobedient to God, and have now obtained mercy, because of their disobedience;
31 so also are they now disobedient to the mercy, which is upon you, that there may be mercy on them likewise.
32 For God hath shut up all men in disobedience, that upon all men he might have mercy.
33 O the depth of the riches, and the wisdom, and the knowledge of God! For man hath not searched out his judgments; and his ways are inscrutable.
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been a counsellor to him?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and then received from him?
36 Because, all is from him, and all by him, and all through him: to whom be praises and benedictions, for ever and ever: Amen.
12 1 I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by a rational service of him.
2 And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed, by the renovation of your minds: and discern ye what is the good and acceptable and perfect pleasure of God.
3 And, by the grace given to me, I say to you all: Do not carry thoughts, beyond what ye ought to think; but think with modesty, as God hath distributed to each one his measure of faith.
4 For as we severally have many members in one body, and all those members have not the same functions;
5 so also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.
6 But we have different gifts, according to the grace given to us. There is that of prophecy, according to the measure of his faith.
7 And there is that of ministration, possessed by one in his ministry. And there is that of a teacher, in his teaching.
8 And there is that of a consoler, in his consoling: And that of a giver, with simplicity: And that of a presider, with dexterity: And of a sympathizer, with cheerfulness.
9 Let not your love be guileful: but be haters of evil things, and adherers to good things.
10 Be affectionate to your brethren: and love one another. Be foremost in honoring one another.
11 Be active; and not slothful. Be fervent in spirit. Be laborers for our Lord.
12 Be joyful in your hope. Be patient under your afflictions. Be persevering in prayer.
13 Be communicators to the wants of the saints. Be kind to strangers.
14 Bless your persecutors: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them who rejoice: and weep with them who weep.
16 What estimation ye make of yourselves, make also of your brethren. And indulge not high thoughts; but unite yourselves with the lowly minded. And be not wise in your own estimation.
17 And repay to no man evil for evil: but let it be your study to do good before all men.
18 And if possible, so far as it dependeth on you, live in peace with every man.
19 And be ye not avengers of yourselves, my beloved: but give place to wrath. For it is written: If thou dost not execute judgment for thyself, I will execute judgment for thee, saith God.
20 And if thy adversary be hungry, feed him: and if he be thirsty, give him drink. For if thou doest these things to him, thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be ye not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.
13 1 Let every soul be subject to the authorities of magistracy. For there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist, are established by God.
2 He therefore who opposeth the authority, opposeth the establishment of God; and they who oppose them, shall receive judgment.
3 For judges are not a terror to good deeds, but to evil deeds. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the authority? Do good, and thou shalt have praise from it.
4 For he is the minister of God; but it is to thee for good. But if thou doest evil, be afraid; for he is not girded with the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, and an avenger of wrath to them that do evil things.
5 And therefore, it is necessary for us to be obedient, not only on account of wrath, but likewise on account of our consciences.
6 For this cause also ye pay tribute money; for they are the ministers of God, established for these same objects.
7 Render therefore to every one, as is due to him; tribute-money, to whom tribute-money; and excise, to whom excise; and fear, to whom fear; and honor, to whom honor.
8 And owe nothing to any one; but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this likewise, which it saith: Thou shalt not kill; nor commit adultery; nor steal; nor covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is completed in this sentence: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
10 Love doeth no evil to one's neighbor; because love is the fulfillment of the law.
11 And this also know ye, that it is the time and the hour, that we should henceforth be awake from our sleep. For now our life hath come nearer to us, than when we believed.
12 The night now passeth away, and the day draweth near. Let us therefore cast from us the works of darkness; and let us put on the armor of light.
13 And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity of the bed, nor in envy and strife.
14 But clothe yourselves with our Lord Jesus Messiah: and be not thoughtful about your flesh, for the indulgence of appetites.