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    "language": "en",
    "book": "romans",
    "chapter": 12
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  "data": {
    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "romans",
    "bookCode": "ROM",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ROM-12:1",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.1",
        "text": "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ROM-12:2",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.2",
        "text": "And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ROM-12:3",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.3",
        "text": "For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ROM-12:4",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.4",
        "text": "For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ROM-12:5",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.5",
        "text": "so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ROM-12:6",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.6",
        "text": "And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ROM-12:7",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.7",
        "text": "or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ROM-12:8",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.8",
        "text": "or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, [let him do it] with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ROM-12:9",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.9",
        "text": "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ROM-12:10",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.10",
        "text": "In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ROM-12:11",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.11",
        "text": "in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ROM-12:12",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.12",
        "text": "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ROM-12:13",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.13",
        "text": "communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ROM-12:14",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.14",
        "text": "Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ROM-12:15",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.15",
        "text": "Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ROM-12:16",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.16",
        "text": "Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ROM-12:17",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.17",
        "text": "Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ROM-12:18",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.18",
        "text": "If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ROM-12:19",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.19",
        "text": "Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath [of God]: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ROM-12:20",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.20",
        "text": "But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ROM-12:21",
        "verseRef": "ROM.12.21",
        "text": "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
      }
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