context (following I urge you) the infinitive has the same imperatival force explicit in Rom 6:13. This is a veiled command: “offer [parastēsate] yourselves to God.” In 6:13, 16, and 19, offer expresses the idea of putting our bodies at the disposal of God as opposed to Sin (see the comments on 6:13). Christians in 12:1 are urged to offer their bodies (ta sōmata) to God as an act of worship, as members of the Christian community. Such consecration is an activity, “a crisis and a process … a gift