Romans 12-13

The Christian Life is a Living Sacrifice to God

Romans 12:1–2 LEB

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Paul for Everyone, Romans Part 2: Chapters 9–16 Love, the Law and the Coming Day (Romans 13:8–14)

Don’t owe anything to anyone, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your neighbour, you see, you have fulfilled the law. 9 Commandments like ‘don’t commit adultery, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t covet’—and any other commandment—are summed up in this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ 10 Love does no wrong to its neighbour; so love is the fulfilment of the law.

11 This is all the more important because you know what time it is. The hour has come for you to wake up from sleep. Our salvation, you see, is nearer now than it was when first we came to faith. 12 The night is nearly over, the day is almost here. So let’s put off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light. 13 Let’s behave appropriately, as in the daytime: not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in orgies and shameless immorality, not in bad temper and jealousy. 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and don’t make any allowance for the flesh and its lusts.