1Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
2And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for you to prove what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing and perfect.
3For through the favor which has been given to me I say to everyone who is among you, not to be high-minded above what it behooves you to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, to each as God has allotted a measure of trust.
4For just as in one body we have many members, and the members all do not have the same function,
5so we, the many, are one body in the Anointed One, and individually members one of another.
6However, we are having different gifts according to the favor which has been given to us: if prophecy, according to the proportion of the trust;
7or service, in the service; or the one teaching, in the teaching;
8or the one exhorting, in the exhortation; the one giving, in generosity; the one leading, with diligence; the one showing mercy, with cheerfulness.
9Let love be sincere, abhorring the evil, clinging to the good;
10in brotherly love to one another devoted, in honor esteeming one another,
11in diligence not lagging, in spirit being fervent, serving the Lord,
12in hope rejoicing, in tribulation being patient, in prayer being constant,
13contributing to the needs of the holy ones, pursuing hospitality;
14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15To rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping.
16Toward one another minding the same thing, not minding the haughty things, but going along with the lowly. Do not be wise in yourselves.
17Repaying to no one evil for evil, providing right before all men;
18if possible, as for you, living at peace with all men,
19never avenging yourselves, beloved, but instead give place to the wrath; for it has been written: Vengeance is Mine, I myself will repay, says the Lord.
20On the contrary: if your enemy shall hunger, feed him; if he shall thirst, give him drink; for this doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head.
21But do not be overcome by the evil; overcome the evil with the good.