⁸ Above all, love each other deeply,^(A) because love covers over a multitude of sins.^{(B) 9} Offer hospitality^(C) to one another without grumbling.^{(D) 10} Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others,^(E) as faithful^(F) stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.^(G) If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides,^(H) so that in all things God may be praised^(I) through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.^(J)

⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,^(A) and to give his life as a ransom for many.”^(B)

Life by the Spirit

¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.^(A) But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[a];^(B) rather, serve one another^(C) humbly in love.