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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• ¹⁵Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Let it not be.
¹⁶What! know ye not that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? For, saith he, the two [shall be] one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body.
¹⁹What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that [is] in you, and that ye are not your own?
²⁰For ye were bought with a price: do then glorify 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• ³⁰Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayer for me to God, (Rom. 15:30)

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1 Cor. 1:10• ¹⁰Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you, but [that] ye be made perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment. (1 Cor. 1:10)

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2 Cor. 5:20• ²⁰For Christ then we are ambassadors, 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• ¹And working together we also beseech that ye receive not in vain the grace of God (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, [I] who face to face [am] mean among you but absent am bold toward you( (2 Cor. 10:1)

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Eph. 4:1• ¹I exhort you therefore, I the prisoner in [the] Lord, that ye walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, (Eph. 4:1)

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1 Thess. 4:1,10• ¹Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still more.
¹⁰for, indeed, ye do it toward all the brethren that are in the whole of Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound still more, (1 Thess. 4:1,10)

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1 Thess. 5:12• ¹²Now we beseech you, brethren, to know those that labour among you and are over you in [the] Lord and admonish you, (1 Thess. 5:12)

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Heb. 13:22• ²²But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for also briefly do I write 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 leadeth 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 before prepared for glory( (Rom. 9:23)

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Rom. 11:30‑31• ³⁰For as ye once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience,
³¹so also these have now disobeyed your mercy, that they also may have mercy shown to themselves. (Rom. 11:30‑31)

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Psa. 116:12• (Psa. 116:12)

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

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2 Cor. 4:1• ¹On this account, having this ministry, according as we obtained mercy, we faint not, (2 Cor. 4:1)

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2 Cor. 5:14‑15• ¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead;
¹⁵and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for them died and rose. (2 Cor. 5:14‑15)

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Eph. 2:4‑10• ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
⁷that he might show forth in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
⁸For by grace ye are saved through faith; and this not of yourselves(God's is the gift:
⁹not of works, that no one might boast.
¹⁰For his workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God before prepared that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:4‑10)

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Phil. 2:1‑5• ¹If therefore [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 mind the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, minding the one thing:
³nothing in strifefulness, or vainglory, but in lowly-mindedness esteeming one another more excellent than themselves:
⁴regarding each not his own things, but each also those of others.
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 the love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
⁵not by works in righteousness which we ourselves did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
⁶which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to hope of eternal life.
⁸Faithful [is] the saying; and concerning these things I will that thou affirm strongly, in order that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain 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] no people but now God's people, the unpitied, but now pitied.
¹¹Beloved, I exhort [you] as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the fleshly lusts such as war against the soul,
¹²having your behaviour comely among the Gentiles; that in what they speak against you as evil-doers, they, as observing, may from your comely works glorify God in [the] day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:10‑12)

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Rom. 6:13,16,19• ¹³nor be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive out of [the] dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye are yielding yourselves as bondservants for obedience, ye are bondservants 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 as ye 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• (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 nought both it and them; but the body [is] not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴And God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us by his power.
¹⁵Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Let it not be.
¹⁶What! know ye not that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? For, saith he, the two [shall be] one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body.
¹⁹What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that [is] in you, and that ye are not your own?
²⁰For ye were bought with a price: do then glorify 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 true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:22)

a living.

Psa. 69:30‑31• (Psa. 69:30‑31)

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Hos. 14:2• (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, was sacrificed.
⁸Wherefore let us keep 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 fail not; but even if our outer man is consuming, yet the inner is being renewed day by day. (2 Cor. 4:16)

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Phil. 2:17• ¹⁷But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all; (Phil. 2:17)

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

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Heb. 13:15‑16• ¹⁵Through him then let us offer sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips confessing his name.
¹⁶But to do good and communicate forget not; 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 builded up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5)

acceptable.

Rom. 12:2• ²and not to fashion yourselves to this age but to be transformed by the renewing of the 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• ¹⁶in order to my being a minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, as a sacred rite ministering the gospel of God that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit. (Rom. 15:16)

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Psa. 19:14• (Psa. 19:14)

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Isa. 56:7• (Isa. 56:7)

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Jer. 6:20• (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 and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing 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 hath children or descendants, let them learn first to show piety toward their own house and render requital 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 builded up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
²⁰For what glory [is it] if when ye sin and are buffeted ye shall endure? but if when ye do well and suffer ye shall endure, this [is] grace 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;

WK Translation Notes

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Or, governed by the word.