Dedicated Service
1 Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, 12:1 Or pleasingacceptable to God, which is your 12:1 I.e., in contrast to offering a literal sacrificespiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this 12:2 Or ageworld, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may 12:2 Or discoverprove what the will of God is, that which is good and 12:2 Or pleasingacceptable and perfect.
3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.