13 Take care of God's needy people and welcome strangers into your home.
14 Ask God to bless everyone who mistreats you. Ask him to bless them and not to curse them.
15 When others are happy, be happy with them, and when they are sad, be sad.
16 Be friendly with everyone. Don't be proud and feel that you know more than others. Make friends with ordinary people.
17 Don't mistreat someone who has mistreated you. But try to earn the respect of others,
18 and do your best to live at peace with everyone.
19 Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says,“I am the one to take revengeand pay them back.”