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# Romans 12

Romans 12 is chapter 12 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Lessons of Christian virtues.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.
2. And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
3. For I say, through the grace that has been given to me, to all who are among you: Taste no more than it is necessary to taste, but taste unto sobriety and just as God has distributed a share of the faith to each one.
4. For just as, within one body, we have many parts, though all the parts do not have the same role,
5. so also we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one is a part, the one of the other.
6. And we each have different gifts, according to the grace that has been given to us: whether prophecy, in agreement with the reasonableness of faith;
7. or ministry, in ministering; or he who teaches, in doctrine;
8. he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who governs, in solicitude; he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.
9. Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,
10. loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:
11. in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;
12. in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;
13. in the difficulties of the saints, sharing; in hospitality, attentive.
14. Bless those who are persecuting you: bless, and do not curse.
15. Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. Weep with those who are weeping.
16. Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.
17. Render to no one harm for harm. Provide good things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men.
18. If it is possible, in so far as you are able, be at peace with all men.
19. Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”
20. So if an enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap burning coals upon his head.
21. Do not allow evil to prevail, instead prevail over evil by means of goodness.

## Romans 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Obsecro itaque vos fratres per misericordiam Dei, ut exhibeatis corpora vestra hostiam viventem, sanctam, Deo placentem, rationabile obsequium vestrum.
2. Et nolite conformari huic sæculo, sed reformamini in novitate sensus vestri: ut probetis quæ sit voluntas Dei bona, et beneplacens, et perfecta.
3. Dico enim per gratiam quæ data est mihi, omnibus qui sunt inter vos, non plus sapere quam oportet sapere, sed sapere ad sobrietatem: et unicuique sicut Deus divisit mensuram fidei.
4. Sicut enim in uno corpore multa membra habemus, omnia autem membra non eumdem actum habent:
5. ita multi unum corpus sumus in Christo, singuli autem alter alterius membra.
6. Habentes autem donationes secundum gratiam, quæ data est nobis, differentes: sive prophetiam secundum rationem fidei,
7. sive ministerium in ministrando, sive qui docet in doctrina,
8. qui exhortatur in exhortando, qui tribuit in simplicitate, qui præest in sollicitudine, qui miseretur in hilaritate.
9. Dilectio sine simulatione: odientes malum, adhærentes bono:
10. caritate fraternitatis invicem diligentes: honore invicem prævenientes:
11. sollicitudine non pigri: spiritu ferventes: Domino servientes:
12. spe gaudentes: in tribulatione patientes: orationi instantes:
13. necessitatibus sanctorum communicantes: hospitalitatem sectantes.
14. Benedicite persequentibus vos: benedicite, et nolite maledicere.
15. Gaudere cum gaudentibus, flere cum flentibus:
16. idipsum invicem sentientes: non alta sapientes, sed humilibus consentientes. Nolite esse prudentes apud vosmetipsos:
17. nulli malum pro malo reddentes: providentes bona non tantum coram Deo, sed etiam coram omnibus hominibus.
18. Si fieri potest, quod ex vobis est, cum omnibus hominibus pacem habentes:
19. non vosmetipsos defendentes carissimi, sed date locum iræ. Scriptum est enim: Mihi vindicta: ego retribuam, dicit Dominus.
20. Sed si esurierit inimicus tuus, ciba illum: si sitit, potum da illi: hoc enim faciens, carbones ignis congeres super caput ejus.
21. Noli vinci a malo, sed vince in bono malum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1454: The Acts of the Penitent ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2031: The Church, Mother and Teacher ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1105: The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2826: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2520: The Battle for Purity ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1142: Who Celebrates? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1372: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2004: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 114: The Holy Spirit, Interpreter of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2039: Moral Life and the Magisterium of the Church ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1971: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1820: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1669: Sacramentals ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2636: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. You have given all to me; to You, Lord, I return it.” — St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 234, 1548 (On this theme: verse 1)
- “No one heals himself by wounding another.” — St. Ambrose, Duties of the Clergy, I.20, c. 391 (On this theme: verse 17)
- “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” — St. John of the Cross, Sayings of Light and Love, 26, c. 1585 (On this theme: verse 21)

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).