The Skeptics Annotated Bible (907 page)

(13.9b)
“Love thy neighbour as thyself.”
128 How should nonbelievers be treated?

10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour
: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law
.

(13.10a)
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour …

(13.10b)
“Love is the fulfilling of the law.”

(13.11-12) The end of the world was coming soon.

11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for
now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

(13.11)
“Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”

12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand
: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

(13.12)
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand.”

13
Let us walk honestly
, as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkenness
, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

(13.13)
“Let us walk honestly … not in rioting and drunkenness.”
71 Is it OK to drink alcohol?

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

14
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

2 For
one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

(14.2)
“One believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.”
Only wimps are vegetarians.
13 What should we eat?

3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

5
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike
.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

(14.5a) “One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.”
101 Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?

(14.5b)
“Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”
If believers followed Paul’s advice, there would be no more believers.

6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

10 But
why dost thou judge thy brother?
or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

(14.10) “Why dost thou judge thy brother?”
126 Should we judge others?