| 1. | I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; |
| 2. | and 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. |
| 3. | For 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, |
| 4. | for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, |
| 5. | so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another. |
| 6. | And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!' |
| 7. | or ministration -- `In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!' |
| 8. | or 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.' |
| 9. | The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; |
| 10. | in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another; |
| 11. | in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving; |
| 12. | in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering; |
| 13. | to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing. |
| 14. | Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not; |
| 15. | to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, |
| 16. | of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit; |
| 17. | giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. |
| 18. | If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace; |
| 19. | not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance `is' Mine, |
| 20. | I 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; |
| 21. | Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil. |