- Insight from Butler's Daily Bible Reading: Romans 12, 13—Conduct. Five areas of personal conduct are addressed by Paul in these two chapters. •Conduct for God: particularly conduct regarding service for God. The dedication for service (serving God acceptably requires great dedication); the differences in service (everyone does not have the same gifts from God). •Conduct for good: some behavior guidelines are given for various areas of life (some of the things covered are hypocrisy, love, slothfulness, patience, prayer, benevolence, persecution reaction, sympathy for others, humble attitude) •Conduct for the government: the right attitude of the Christian towards human government (submission to the laws, respect for authority). •Conduct of grace: love is to motivate one’s relationship with others in every area (such as in paying one’s bills and in treating your neighbor properly). •Conduct for glory: how to behave in view of the times—“our salvation (glory) is nearer than when we believed.” Do not be groggy (“it is high time to awake out of sleep”); do not be guileful (“cast off the works of darkness”); do be godly (“put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts”).