Romans 12

¹I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice—living, sanctified, acceptable to God—your intelligent service; ²and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God—the good, and acceptable, and perfect. ³For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith, ⁴for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, ⁵so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another. ⁶And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy—‘According to the proportion of faith!’ ⁷or ministration—‘In the ministration!’ or he who is teaching—‘In the teaching!’ ⁸or he who is exhorting—‘In the exhortation!’ he who is sharing—‘In simplicity!’ he who is leading—‘In diligence?’ he who is doing kindness—‘In cheerfulness.’ ⁹The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; ¹⁰in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another; ¹¹in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving; ¹²in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering; ¹³to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing. ¹⁴Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not; ¹⁵to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, ¹⁶of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit; ¹⁷giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. ¹⁸If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, ²⁰I will recompense again, saith the Lord;’ if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; ²¹Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

Chapter 13