12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers,5 in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. The word “therefore” links what follows not just to the immediately preceding verses, but to the entire message of the epistle thus far, which is summarized as “God’s mercy.” The word translated “mercy”6 is οἰκτιρμός (oiktirmos, “pity, mercy, compassion”); it is used only here in Romans. The more common word for mercy
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