I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

You

And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you;

Warn

And their houses were turned to others, the fields and women together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah.

Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

And he saw the sword coming upon the land, and he struck upon the trumpet and warned the people;

For I concealed not to announce to you all the counsel of God.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

That

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

Unruly

For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably.

Be

In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love;

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.

Being able to moderate the passions to the ignorant, and deceived; since he also is surrounded with weakness.

Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.

General references

Wherefore set upright the relaxed hands, and palsied knees;