Live For God.

Offer yourself as a Living sacrifice.

Romans 12:1–2 NIV

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Bottom Line: Live for God

Romans 1. Among Believers (12:1–21)

In view of the many mercies of God, Paul exhorted2 his readers to offer their bodies as living sacrifices (cf. 6:13; 1 Pet 2:5).3 C. K. Barrett comments that “ ‘the mercies of God’ forms a not inadequate summary of what is contained in chs. i–xi, and especially in chs. ix–xi” and that the proper response “is not to speculate upon the eternal decrees, or one’s own place in the scheme of salvation, but to be obedient.

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible World

The expression “this age” occurs frequently in contrast with that which is to come (cf. Mt 12:32; Eph 1:21; Heb 6:5). Christians are not to be conformed to this age (Rom 12:2), but they are to live “self-controlled, upright and godly lives” (Ti 2:12 NIV). Demetrius deserted Paul because he was in love with this present world (age) (2 Tm 4:10), but Jesus promised “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Heb 13:5) and to be with his followers “always, to the very end of the age” (Mt 28:20 NIV).

Romans 1. Among Believers (12:1–21)

In view of the many mercies of God, Paul exhorted2 his readers to offer their bodies as living sacrifices (cf. 6:13; 1 Pet 2:5).3 C. K. Barrett comments that “ ‘the mercies of God’ forms a not inadequate summary of what is contained in chs. i–xi, and especially in chs. ix–xi” and that the proper response “is not to speculate upon the eternal decrees, or one’s own place in the scheme of salvation, but to be obedient.