Chapter 12: Exhortations

v.1 Reasonable means “logical.” It makes sense to let God direct our lives.

v.2 God leads us in very natural ways when we make ourselves available to Him.

v.3 1 Corinthians 4:7; Ephesians 2:8, 9.

v.6 God gives us a gift suitable for our ministry in the body.

v.8 The exhorter gives us a little shove in the right direction.

v.9 Show love without partiality; love all equally.

v.10–21 These verses are exhortations from Paul on the way we should live as Christians.

v.20 Heaping coals of fire on someone’s head refers to the fact that people often carried coals in packs on their backs and were given live coals by friends. It was a gracious act.