11. Never give up. Eagerly follow the Holy Spirit and serve the Lord.
12. Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble and never stop praying.
13. Take care of God's needy people and welcome strangers into your home.
14. Ask God to bless everyone who ill-treats you. Ask him to bless them and not to curse them.
15. When others are happy, be happy with them, and when they are sad, be sad.
16. Be friendly with everyone. Don't be proud and feel that you are cleverer than others. Make friends with ordinary people.
17. Don't ill-treat someone who has ill-treated you. But try to earn the respect of others,
18. and do your best to live at peace with everyone.
19. Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says,“I am the one to take revengeand pay them back.”
20. The Scriptures also say,“If your enemies are hungry,give them something to eat.And if they are thirsty,give them somethingto drink.This will be the sameas piling burning coalson their heads.”
21. Don't let evil defeat you, but defeat evil with good.