✧Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. ✧2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. ✧3For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. ✧4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, ✧5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another, ✧6having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; ✧7or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; ✧8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. ✧9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. ✧10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another, ✧11not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, ✧12rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer, ✧13contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality. ✧14Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse. ✧15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. ✧16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits. ✧17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. ✧18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. ✧19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” ✧20Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.” ✧21Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.