Scriptural Encouragement & Exhortation

Romans 12:1, 2 – To present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice

January 29, 2008

 

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice…What shall I render to the LORD For all His benefits toward me? I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of the LORD…Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?...Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body…Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ…For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf…For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's…For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

 

(Rom 12:1; Psa 116:12, 13; Rom 6:16; 1Co 6:19, 20; Rom 6:12, 13; 1Pe 1:18, 19; 2Co 5:14, 15; Rom 14:7, 8; Tit 2:11-14)

 

 

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