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Romans 12:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

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If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;

You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

Granted. They were broken off — for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God — God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

However, women will get safely through childbirth if they continue to be faithful and loving and holy as well as unassuming.

Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery,

and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

Where were you inferior to the rest of the churches? — unless in this, that your apostle did not choose to make himself a burden to you. Pray pardon me this terrible wrong!

In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds.

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

and so my boasting never goes beyond the limit — it is determined by the limits of the sphere marked out for me by God. That sphere stretches to include yourselves;

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.




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