12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies as a living holy sacrifice pleasing to God, as your spiritual worship.
12:2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may be approving what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
12:3 For I say to everyone being among you through the grace having been given to me not to be thinking-highly of yourself beyond what you ought-to think, but to be thinking so as to be sound-minded, as God apportioned to each a measure of faith.
12:4 For just as we have many body-parts in one body and all the body-parts do not have the same function,
12:5 in this manner we the many are one body in Christ, and individually body-parts of one another.
12:6 And having different grace-gifts according-to the grace having been given to us, exercise them accordingly: whether prophecy, in accordance with the proportion of your faith;
12:7 or service, in-the-sphere-of your service; or the one teaching, in the sphere of your teaching;
12:8 or the one exhorting, in the sphere of your exhortation; the one giving, with generosity; the one leading, with diligence; the one showing-mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9 I say to let your love be sincere, while abhorring the evil, clinging to the good;
12:10 to be affectionate to one another in brotherly-love, preferring one another in honor;
12:11 to not be hesitant in diligence; to be boiling in spirit, serving the Lord,
12:12 rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, devoting-yourselves to prayer,
12:13 sharing in the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.
12:14 Be blessing the ones persecuting you— be blessing and not cursing.
12:15 I say to rejoice with rejoicing ones, to weep with weeping ones;
12:16 to be thinking the same thing toward one another, not thinking lofty things, but being carried-along-with the lowly (do not be wise among yourselves);
12:17 to be giving-back evil for evil to no one; to be providing-for good things in the sight of all people,
12:18 living-in-peace with all people if possible— as far as from you;
12:19 to not be avenging yourselves, beloved, but give a place to the wrath of God. For it has been written: “Vengeance is for Me, I will repay, says the Lord” [Deut 32:35].
12:20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give-a-drink to him. For doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head” [Prov 25:21-22].
12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.
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