Romans 12: 9-21

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The passage Romans 12:9-21 had many life lessons packed into the verses. Jesus shows us how we should be servants of Him and how we are to do that through his teachings. In these verses you can also see how you can still relate these same principles and beliefs to everyday life. These verses are still applied to our lives today because they are realistic and we are able to follow them. Not that we can’t follow other commandments that God tells us to in the Bible but we are able to do these. For instant in the first verse, verse nine; it talks about how “love must be sincere”. In our society today we use the word “love” a lot. We use the word when we are expressing our feelings to someone and we use it when we really like something. Sometimes

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