12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
12:2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.
12:4 For just as in one body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function,
12:5 in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
12:6 but having different gifts according to the grace given to us: if it is prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;
12:7 if it is service, by service; if it is one who teaches, by teaching;
12:8 if it is one who exhorts, by exhortation; one who gives, with sincerity; one who leads, with diligence; one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9 Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; be attached to what is good,
12:10 being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another more highly in honor,
12:11 not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,
12:12 rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,
12:13 contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.
12:14 Bless those who persecute, bless and do not curse them.
12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
12:16 Think the same thing toward one another; do not think arrogantly, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own sight.
12:17 Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for what is good in the sight of all people.
12:18 If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people.
12:19 Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
12:20 But “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head.”
12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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