1. I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;
2. and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what [is] the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
3. For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
4. for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
5. so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.
6. And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!'
7. or ministration--`In the ministration!' or he who is teaching--`In the teaching!'
8. or he who is exhorting--`In the exhortation!' he who is sharing--`In simplicity!' he who is leading--`In diligence?' he who is doing kindness--`In cheerfulness.'
9. The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;