Isaiah 61:6
Isaiah 66:21
Hosea 14:2
Malachi 1:11
Romans 12:1
1Dedicate Your Lives to GodI therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship. ▼▼Lit. to God, your reasonable worship
Ps 50:13-14; Rom 6:13, 16, 19; Rom 6:13, 16, 19, 1Cor 6:13, 20; 2Cor 10:1; Heb 10:20; 1Pet 2:5 Ephesians 2:21-22
21In him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary in the Lord.1Cor 3:17; 6:19; 2Cor 6:16; Eph 4:15-16 22You, too, are being built in him along with the others into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.1Pet 2:5Philippians 4:18
18I have been paid in full and have more than enough. I am fully supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus what you sent—a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.2Cor 9:12; Phil 2:25; Heb 13:16Hebrews 3:6
6but Christ was faithful ▼▼The Gk. lacks was faithful
as the Son in charge of God's ▼▼Lit. his
household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope that we boast about. ▼▼Lit. the boast of our hope
Matt 10:22; 24:13; Rom 5:2; 1Cor 3:16; 6:19; 2Cor 6:16; Eph 2:21-22; Col 1:23; 1Tim 3:15; Heb 1:2; 2:14; 6:11; 10:35; 1Pet 2:5 Hebrews 13:15-16
15Therefore, through him let us always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.Lev 7:12; Ps 50:14, 23; 69:30-31; 107:22; 116:17; Hos 14:2; Eph 5:20; 1Pet 2:5 16Do not neglect to do good and to be generous, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.Rom 12:13; 2Cor 9:12; Phil 4:18; Heb 6:101 Peter 2:9
9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.Exod 19:5-6; Deut 4:20; 7:6; 10:15; 14:2; 26:18-19; John 17:19; Acts 20:28; 26:18; 1Cor 3:17; Eph 1:14; 5:8; Col 1:13; 1Thes 5:4-5; 2Tim 1:9; Titus 2:14; 1Pet 1:2; Rev 1:6; 5:101 Peter 4:11
11Whoever speaks must speak God's words. ▼▼Lit. If anyone speaks as the words of God
Whoever serves must serve with the strength ▼▼Lit. Whoever serves as with the strength
that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.Jer 23:22; Rom 12:6-8; 1Cor 3:10; Eph 5:20; 1Tim 6:16; 1Pet 2:5; 5:11; Rev 1:6
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