8If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. 7If your gift is serving others, serve them well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.ĦIn his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. 4Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5so it is with Christ’s body. Or by the faith God has given you or by the standard of our God-given faith. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.ģBecause of the privilege and authority Or Because of the grace compare 1:5. 2Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Or This is your spiritual worship or This is your reasonable service. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind he will find acceptable. I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. A Living Sacrifice to God 1And so, dear brothers and sisters, Greek brothers.

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