God,” but “holy” usually fails to convey this meaning to the English reader. Rather, the idea is one of moral purity. Moral purity is, of course, involved in dedication to God, but it is something which grows out of the “holiness” of the Christian. The phrase living sacrifice involves a contradiction in terms since a sacrifice is something which is put to death. In some languages the distinction is rendered as “offer yourself as though a killed gift to God while still alive,” “give yourself to God