I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.

You

We beg you, Brothers, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord's service, and give you counsel.

Warn

For I have not shrunk from announcing the whole purpose of God regarding you.

It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.

This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning every one, and instructing every one, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing every one into God's presence perfected by union with Christ.

That

They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

Unruly

We hear that there are among you people who are living ill- ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busy-bodies.

Be

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Always humble and gentle, patient, bearing lovingly with one another,

Therefore imitate God, as his dear children,

Therefore, as God's People, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance;

not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;

But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

and a Servant of the Lord should never quarrel. He ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to every one, a skillful teacher, and forbearing.

Proclaim the Message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.

And he is able to sympathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness,

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

General references

Therefore 'lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;