Romans 12:1–13

A Living and Holy Sacrifice

¹Therefore ^aI exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to ^bpresent your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your ¹spiritual service of worship.

²And do not ^abe conformed to ^bthis ¹world, but be transformed by the ^crenewing of your mind, so that you may ^dapprove what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and ²perfect.

³For through ^athe grace given to me I say to each one among you ^bnot to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound thinking, as God has allotted to ^ceach a measure of faith.

⁴For ^ajust as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

⁵so we, ^awho are many, are ^bone body in Christ, and individually members one of another,

⁶but having gifts that ^adiffer according to the grace given to us: whether ^bprophecy, ¹in agreement with the faith;

⁷or ^1aservice, in his serving; or he who ^bteaches, in his teaching;

⁸or he who ^aexhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with ^1bgenerosity; ^che who ²leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with ^dcheerfulness.

⁹Let ^alove be without hypocrisy—by ^babhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

¹⁰being ^adevoted to one another in brotherly love, ¹giving preference to one another ^bin honor,

¹¹not lagging behind in diligence, being ^afervent in spirit, ^bserving the Lord,

^12arejoicing in hope, ^bpersevering in affliction, being ^cdevoted to prayer,

^13acontributing to the needs of the ¹saints, ^bpursuing hospitality.