I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

You

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Warn

for I shrank not from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Not as shaming you, do I write these things, but as my beloved children, admonishing you.

Whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

That

if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children not in accusation of rioting, or unruly.

Unruly

For we hear of some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, who work not at all, but are busybodies.

Be

Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

But do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness.

now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

able to bear with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with infirmity;

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

General references

Wherefore, lift up the relaxed hands and the feeble knees,