Romans 12:1-15

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,