7-11 Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!

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(A)Be hospitable to one another without (B)complaint. 10 (C)As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good (D)stewards of the [a]multifaceted grace of God. 11 (E)Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking (F)actual words of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving [b](G)by the strength which God supplies; so that (H)in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, (I)to whom belongs the glory and [c]dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:10 Or manifold
  2. 1 Peter 4:11 Lit from
  3. 1 Peter 4:11 Or power