Paul has moved through his doctrinal section in Romans and now has moved on to the practical side of things.  He’s been telling the church in Rome how they are a "body", and like a body, they are each an individual part of it, with each part having a unique and different function. It’s when we all learn to do our "part", that the church is healthy.

We now move into a section where talks about our obligations to each other, both the things we ought to be doing as well as the attitudes we need to have with each other.

love – agape – brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence

dissimulation – anupokritos – unfeigned, undisguised, sincere. It means not having hupokrinomai – to make answer (speak) on the stage; to impersonate anyone, play a part; to simulate, feign, pretend

abhor – apostugeo – to dislike, abhor, have a horror of

evil – poneros – full of labours, annoyances, hardships; bad, of a bad nature or condition ; in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad. Mischief-making, delighting in injury, doing evil to others, dangerous, destructive.

I find it interesting that Paul doesn’t say, "Abhor the person who is evil", but "Abhor that which is evil".

Solomon wrote,

cleave – kollao – to glue, to glue together, cement, fasten together; to join or fasten firmly together; to join one's self to, cleave to

good – agathos – of good constitution or nature; good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy; excellent, distinguished; upright, honourable

I know that life isn’t always as easy as putting things into two categories, "Evil" and "Good". But when we see something "good", we need to hold on tight.

kindly affectioned – philostorgos (phileo, "affection" + storge, "family love") – the mutual love of parents and children and wives and husbands; loving affection, prone to love, loving tenderly; chiefly of the reciprocal tenderness of parents and children

brotherly love – philadelphia – love of brothers or sisters, brotherly love; in the NT the love which Christians cherish for each other as brethren

honour – time – a valuing by which the price is fixed; honour which belongs or is shown to one

preferring – proegeomai – to go before and show the way as a guide. This is the only time in the New Testament where this word is used.

business – spoude – haste, with haste; earnestness, diligence; earnestness in accomplishing, promoting, or striving after anything; to give all diligence, interest one's self most earnestly

slothful – okneros – sluggish, slothful, backward

We could say it this way, "Don’t be poky about things you ought to be speedy about".

fervent – zeo – to boil, be hot.

spirit – pneuma –the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit; the spirit, i.e. the vital principal by which the body is animated; a spirit, the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one.

serving – douleuo – be a slave, serve, do service; metaph. to obey, submit to

hope – elpis – expectation of evil, fear; expectation of good, hope; in the Christian sense joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation

rejoicing – chairo – to rejoice, be glad

tribulation – thlipsis – a pressing, pressing together, pressure; metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

patient – hupomeno – to remain, literally to "remain under"; to tarry behind; to remain i.e. abide, not recede or flee; to endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments

prayer – proseuche – prayer addressed to God. Some of the other words that are translated "prayer" can be used to refer to requests made of other people, but this word speaks of those "requests" that are made specifically to God.

continuing instant – proskartereo – to adhere to one, be his adherent, to be devoted or constant to one; to be steadfastly attentive unto, to give unremitting care to a thing; to continue all the time in a place; to persevere and not to faint; to show one's self courageous for; to be in constant readiness for one, wait on constantly

necessity – chreia – necessity, need

saints – hagios – most holy thing, a saint. In the New Testament, this term isn’t used for someone who lives on a stained-glass window. It is used for all Christians. We are all "saints" because when we come to trust in Jesus, it’s like He puts a sticker on us that says, "Everybody keep your hands off this one, they belong to me!". That’s one of the ideas of "holiness", or being a "saint", that you are set aside for a special purpose, set aside for God’s purpose.

distributing – koinoneo – to come into communion or fellowship with, to become a sharer, be made a partner; to enter into fellowship, join one's self to an associate, make one's self a sharer or partner.

Part of this involves an actual, practical ministry that Paul was currently involved with while he was writing to the Romans.

hospitality – philoxenia – love to strangers, hospitality

given to – dioko – to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away; without the idea of hostility, to run after, follow after someone; to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavour to acquire

In the ancient world, things worked differently than they do today. If you went on a trip across country, there generally weren’t places like Motel 6 to spend the night at. Typically what you’d do is hang out at the town square and then people from town would run into you and invite you to their house to spend the evening. This was called "hospitality", the "love of strangers".