Romans 12:1

“For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;

and do not go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Now I, Paul, myself plead with you by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ—I who am humble when face-to-face with you, but courageous toward you when absent!

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

yet for love’s sake I rather plead with you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—

I plead with you for my child Onesimus, of whom I became a father in my chains,

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul,

A Living and Holy Sacrifice