Daily Verse Daily Verse by Faithlife | Romans 12:1

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[Lori Jane]

12:1 Therefore Indicates a key transition in the letter. What follows appears in light of the preceding content of 1:18–11:36. Paul urges his audience to respond to the message of the gospel as he explained in the letter.​

exhort The Greek word used here, parakaleō, describes urging or encouraging someone to do something. See note on 2 Cor 1:3.​

mercies of God Refers to the undeserved kindness God shows toward sinners—one of Paul’s main themes so far in the letter.​

bodies The Greek word used here, sōma, refers to the entire person.​

living sacrifice This expression might indicate that believers are to continually offer themselves in service to God. It also could describe believers as dead to sin yet alive to God (Rom 6:11).​

holy Indicates that the sacrifice is set apart for God. In the ot, such terminology is associated with worship in the tabernacle and temple (Exod 30:10; 40:10; Lev 6:25).​

reasonable The Greek word used here, logikos, can mean “spiritual,” suggesting worship that involves the heart and mind in contrast to physical offerings and sacrifices. Alternatively, logikos could be translated as “reasonable” or “proper,” indicating worship that reflects a correct understanding of the gospel message and a rational response to it. It also might mean “true,” implying that worship is appropriate for those with a renewed mind (Rom 12:2).​

service The Greek word used here, latreia, commonly refers to priestly duties in the temple (Heb 9:1, 6). Believers do not operate in a physical temple but are themselves God’s temple (1 Cor 6:19). They offer themselves because God has made them a holy priesthood (1 Pet 2:5, 9).​

12:2 this age Refers to the present evil age (see note on Gal 1:4), the time prior to Christ’s return.​

renewal of your mind Refers to mental conformity to the truth of God. This renewal results in a transformation in the life of the believer.​

perfect will of God Describes the purpose of renewal and transformation. Israel had failed to recognize God’s will and purposes—that He was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ (2 Cor 5:19). Paul provides this instruction so that the Roman believers will not do the same.


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Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Ro 12:1–2). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

 

[Lori Jane]

12:1–2 Paul commonly used the indicative mode of speech to make statements about what God has done for us before using the imperative mode to outline our proper response (e.g., Therefore … I urge you). The order of presentation is doctrine first, and then duty. Our true worship entails offering our bodies as a living sacrifice, which means dedication of the total person to living for God’s honor. Christians are to be different from non-Christian society. We should experience a progressive transformation of life by the renewing of our mind. The mind is changed by prayer, by reading and reflection on God’s Word, by worship, and by meditation on God’s acts as the Holy Spirit works in us.


Patterson, P. (2017). Salvation in the Old Testament. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1800). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

 

[Lori Jane]

Passage Guide | Romans 12:1 › Cross References (2)

	The Lexham English Bible
Psalm 50:13–14	13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to the Most High.
Psalm 50:23	He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God.”
Romans 6:13	and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 6:16	Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or obedience, leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:19	(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to immorality and lawlessness, leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
Romans 9:4	who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the temple service, and the promises,
Romans 12:2	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.
Romans 14:18	For the one who serves Christ in this way is well-pleasing to God and approved by people.
1 Corinthians 1:10	Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.
1 Corinthians 6:13	Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:20	For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.
2 Corinthians 1:3	Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 6:1	Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 10:1–4	1 Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who when I am present in person am humble among you, but when I am absent am bold toward you—2 now I ask when I am present that I will not need to be bold with the confidence with which I propose to show boldness toward some who consider us as behaving according to the flesh. 3 For although we are living in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but powerful to God for the tearing down of fortresses, tearing down arguments
Ephesians 4:1	Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:
Philippians 4:18	But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am well supplied because I received from Epaphroditus what you had sent, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Philemon 9	instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 10:18	Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:20	by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,
Hebrews 13:15	Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
1 Peter 2:2	like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
1 Peter 2:5	And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:11	Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,

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