{"id":217,"date":"2005-08-25T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/08\/25\/lectionary-text-romans-129-21\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:10:55","slug":"lectionary-text-romans-129-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/08\/25\/lectionary-text-romans-129-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Text Romans 12:9-21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let love be without hypocrisy.<br>Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.<br>Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;  not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;  rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,  contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.<br>Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.<br>Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.<br>Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly Do not be wise in your own estimation.<br>Never pay back evil for evil to anyone Respect what is right in the sight of all men.<br>If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.<br>Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>says the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let love be without hypocrisy.Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}