Romans 12:9-21 - Living In Love

⁹ Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right. ¹⁰ In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore, ¹¹ never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord, ¹² ever happy in hope, always patient in suffering, ever persistent in prayer, ¹³ always supplying the needs of God's people, ever practicing hospitality. ¹⁴ Keep on blessing your persecutors; keep on blessing and stop cursing them. ¹⁵ Practice rejoicing with people who rejoice, and weeping with people who weep. ¹⁶ Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited. ¹⁷ Stop returning evil for evil to anyone. Always see to it that your affairs are right in the sight of everybody. ¹⁸ If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with everybody. ¹⁹ Stop taking revenge on one another, beloved, but leave a place for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord." ²⁰ Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head!