8. but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
9. hospitable one to another, without murmuring;
10. each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of the various grace of God.
11. If any one speak--as oracles of God; if any one minister--as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.
12. Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;