1. And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.
2. And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
3. For I say, through the grace that has been given to me, to all who are among you: Taste no more than it is necessary to taste, but taste unto sobriety and just as God has distributed a share of the faith to each one.
4. For just as, within one body, we have many parts, though all the parts do not have the same role,
5. so also we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one is a part, the one of the other.
6. And we each have different gifts, according to the grace that has been given to us: whether prophecy, in agreement with the reasonableness of faith;
7. or ministry, in ministering; or he who teaches, in doctrine;
8. he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who governs, in solicitude; he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.
9. Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,
10. loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:
11. in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;
12. in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;