Romans 12
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
1I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind: that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God. 3For I say, through the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety: and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith. 4For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office: 5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one, members one of another. 6And having gifts different, according to the grace that is given us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith, 7Or ministry, in ministering: or he that teacheth, in doctrine, 8He that exhorteth in exhorting; he that giveth with simplicity; he that ruleth with solicitude, he that sheweth mercy with cheerfulness. 9Love without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, adhering to that which is good: 10Loving one another with brotherly love; in honour preventing one another: 11In solicitude not slothful: in spirit fervent: serving the Lord: 12Rejoicing in hope: patient in tribulation: instant in prayer: 13Communicating to the necessities of the saints: pursuing hospitality. 14Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. 15Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep: 16Being of one mind one towards another: not high-minded: but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits: 17Rendering to no man evil for evil: providing things good, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men. 18If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men. 19Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved: but give place to wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. 20But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him to drink: for, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.