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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodiesl a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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1 Cor. 6:15‑20• ¹⁵Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
¹⁶Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
¹⁹Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
²⁰for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body. (1 Cor. 6:15‑20)

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1-2: God's mercies must move us to please God.

3-5: No man must think too well of himself;

6-8: but everyone attend on that calling wherein he is placed.

9-18: Love, and many other duties are required of us.

19-21: Revenge is especially forbidden.

beseech.

Rom. 15:30• ³⁰But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God; (Rom. 15:30)

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1 Cor. 1:10• ¹⁰Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. (1 Cor. 1:10)

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2 Cor. 5:20• ²⁰We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God. (2 Cor. 5:20)

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2 Cor. 6:1• ¹But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain: (2 Cor. 6:1)

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2 Cor. 10:1• ¹But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, when present am mean among you, but absent am bold towards you; (2 Cor. 10:1)

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Eph. 4:1• ¹*I*, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called, (Eph. 4:1)

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1 Thess. 4:1,10• ¹For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.
¹⁰For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more, (1 Thess. 4:1,10)

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1 Thess. 5:12• ¹²But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you, (1 Thess. 5:12)

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Heb. 13:22• ²²But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you. (Heb. 13:22)

by the.

Rom. 2:4• ⁴or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance? (Rom. 2:4)

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Rom. 9:23• ²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, (Rom. 9:23)

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Rom. 11:30‑31• ³⁰For as indeed *ye* also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;
³¹so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy. (Rom. 11:30‑31)

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Psa. 116:12• ¹²What shall I render unto Jehovah, for all his benefits toward me? (Psa. 116:12)

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Luke 7:47• ⁴⁷For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little. (Luke 7:47)

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2 Cor. 4:1• ¹Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not. (2 Cor. 4:1)

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2 Cor. 5:14‑15• ¹⁴For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised. (2 Cor. 5:14‑15)

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Eph. 2:4‑10• ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
⁶and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
⁷that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
⁸For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:
⁹not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.
¹⁰For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:4‑10)

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Phil. 2:1‑5• ¹If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
²fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;
³let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
⁴regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.
⁵For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; (Phil. 2:1‑5)

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Titus 3:4‑8• ⁴But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by *his* grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
⁸The word is faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men. (Titus 3:4‑8)

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1 Peter 2:10‑12• ¹⁰who once were not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.
¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
¹²having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:10‑12)

that ye.

Rom. 6:13,16,19• ¹³Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:13,16,19)

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Psa. 50:13‑14• ¹³Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High; (Psa. 50:13‑14)

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1 Cor. 6:13‑20• ¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.
¹⁵Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
¹⁶Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
¹⁹Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
²⁰for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body. (1 Cor. 6:13‑20)

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Phil. 1:20• ²⁰according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death. (Phil. 1:20)

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Heb. 10:22• ²²let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water. (Heb. 10:22)

a living.

Psa. 69:30‑31• ³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving;
³¹And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox,--a bullock with horns and cloven hoofs. (Psa. 69:30‑31)

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Hos. 14:2• ²Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips. (Hos. 14:2)

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1 Cor. 5:7‑8• ⁷Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;
⁸so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:7‑8)

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2 Cor. 4:16• ¹⁶Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day. (2 Cor. 4:16)

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Phil. 2:17• ¹⁷But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all. (Phil. 2:17)

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Heb. 10:20‑22• ²⁰the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
²¹and having a great priest over the house of God,
²²let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water. (Heb. 10:20‑22)

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Heb. 13:15‑16• ¹⁵By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of the lips confessing his name.
¹⁶But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Heb. 13:15‑16)

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1 Peter 2:5• ⁵yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5)

acceptable.

Rom. 12:2• ²And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom. 12:2)

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Rom. 15:16• ¹⁶for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 15:16)

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Psa. 19:14• ¹⁴Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer. (Psa. 19:14)

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Isa. 56:7• ⁷even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples. (Isa. 56:7)

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Jer. 6:20• ²⁰To what purpose should there come to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing unto me. (Jer. 6:20)

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Eph. 5:10• ¹⁰proving what is agreeable to the Lord; (Eph. 5:10)

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Phil. 4:18• ¹⁸But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God. (Phil. 4:18)

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1 Tim. 2:3• ³for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, (1 Tim. 2:3)

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1 Tim. 5:4• ⁴but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God. (1 Tim. 5:4)

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1 Peter 2:5,20• ⁵yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
²⁰For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God. (1 Peter 2:5,20)

• Having intelligence as to all this, we can give up our bodies beforehand, to be His now, to be used in holy separation to Him, and for Him. What a privilege! But this cannot possibly be, if we are conformed to this world—a world at enmity with Him. (“Romans 12” by C. Stanley)

• The Apostle resumes the thread of his instructions, by taking up—as he does in all his epistles—the moral consequences of his doctrine. (“Romans 12-13” by J.N. Darby)

• The principle of grace that saves had been established as the basis of salvation. The ground of all Christian morality is now laid in this fundamental principle: to present our bodies as a sacrifice, living, holy, acceptable to God—an intelligent service, not that of the hands, not consisting in ceremonies which the body could perform—a simple but deep-reaching and all-efficacious principle. (“Romans 12-13” by J.N. Darby)

• In chapters 12-16, we learn that God would have His righteousness demonstrated practically in the lives of those whom He has saved. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

• {v.1-8} In the first eight verses of chapter 12, Paul traces a moral order of things that occurs in the lives of those whose hearts have been touched by the compassions of God and the love of Christ. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

• Note: he doesn't say, "I command you brethren..." because it is not legal obedience that God desires from the Christian. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

• "Present" is in the aorist tense in the Greek, meaning that it ought to be a once-for-all thing in the life of the believer. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

• This "sacrifice" is to be a voluntary choice of the believer whose heart has been touched by the love of Christ (2 Cor. 5:14-15). It is purely a personal matter; it is not a group exercise. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

• Note also: Romans 12:1 says that this sacrifice must be "holy." God will accept and use our lives when we give them to Him, but they must be holy. (“God's Righteousness Demonstrated in Practical Life: Romans 12-15” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

W. Kelly Translation

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I exhort you then, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your intelligenta service;

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Or, governed by the word.