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;

You

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

Warn

And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.

that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.

And he hath seen the sword coming against the land, And hath blown with a trumpet, and hath warned the people,

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

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

That

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

Unruly

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

Be

In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

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

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

General references

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;