Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Your attitude in these last days
7 We are near the end of all things now, and you should therefore be calm, self-controlled men of prayer.
8 Above everything else be sure that you have real deep love for each other, remembering how ‘love will cover a multitude of sins’.
9 Be hospitable to each other without secretly wishing you hadn’t got to be!
10-11 Serve one another with the particular gifts God has given each of you, as faithful dispensers of the magnificently varied grace of God. If any of you is a preacher then he should preach his message as from God. And in whatever way a man serves the Church he should do it recognising the fact that God gives him his ability, so that God may be glorified in everything through Jesus Christ. To him belong praise and power for ever, amen!
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