| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. |
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