12Now, my brothers, I ask you to have true honour for those who work hard on your behalf, whom the Lord has placed over you and who warn and correct you as necessary.13Maintain the highest regard for them and love them wholeheartedly because of their work. And live in peace and harmony with one another.14My brothers, I also urge you to warn any who are lazy, to encourage the fearful, to help the weak and to be patient with everyone.15Be certain that none of you retaliates with wrong for wrong. Instead always aim to be kind to one another and to anyone else.16Always be full of joy.17Keep praying all the time.18Give thanks to God, regardless of your circumstances. All this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.19Do nothing to dampen the fire of God's Spirit within you.20Do not treat genuine prophetic words from the Lord with contempt by ignoring them.21Test whatever is said and hold onto what is good because it is clearly from God.22Shun evil in all its forms.23And may God Himself, the God of peace, cause you to be holy in every aspect of your lives, so that everything about you in spirit, soul and body will be kept blameless in God's eyes at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.24He who has called you is the Faithful One and He will work this in you.
Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE TRUTH VERSION. Copyright © 2009 by Colin Urquhart. All rights reserved worldwide. (The Truth New Testament)