Romans 12:9-21 - Living In Love

⁹ Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right. ¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another. ¹¹ Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants, ¹² full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer. ¹³ Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality. ¹⁴ Invoke blessings on your persecutors--blessings, not curses. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. Do not be wise in your own conceits. ¹⁷ Pay back to no man evil for evil. Take thought for what is right and seemly in every one's esteem. ¹⁸ If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world. ¹⁹ Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; for it is written, "'Revenge belongs to Me: I will pay back,' says the Lord." ²⁰ On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing this you will be heaping burning coals upon his head.