In my heart I honor Christ, the Lord, as holy, always prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks me for the reason for the hope that is in me, with gentleness and respect.   Since my Lord Jesus suffered in the flesh, I arm myself with the same way of thinking, for when I suffer in the flesh I have ceased from Sin, so as to live for the rest of my time in the flesh no longer for my human passions but for the will of God.   I am tempered and sober minded. I love the brethern. I show hospitality without grumbling. I serve others as a good steward of God’s varying graces. I speak, when I speak, as one who speaks the oracles from God.  I serve as one who serves by the strength that God supplies, in order that in everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever!