Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is true worship. (NIV)
I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. (AMP)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (KJV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (NIV)
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. (AMP)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (KJV)
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. (NIV)
For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him. (AMP)
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (KJV)
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. (NIV)
[Let your] love be sincere (a real thing); hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good. (AMP)
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. (KJV)
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (NIV)
Rejoice with those who rejoice [sharing others' joy], and weep with those who weep [sharing others' grief]. (AMP)
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (KJV)
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith (NIV)
Having gifts (faculties, talents, qualities) that differ according to the grace given us, let us use them: [He whose gift is] prophecy, [let him prophesy] according to the proportion of his faith (AMP)
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (KJV)
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function (NIV)
For as in one physical body we have many parts (organs, members) and all of these parts do not have the same function or use (AMP)
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: (KJV)
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. (NIV)
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for [God's] wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay (requite), says the Lord. [Deut. 32:35.] (AMP)
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. (KJV)
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. (NIV)
Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another. (AMP)
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; (KJV)
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (NIV)
Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer. (AMP)
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; (KJV)
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