¹⁶ Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth.^(A) This very year you are going to die,^(B) because you have preached rebellion^(C) against the Lord.’”

³² this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants.^(A) He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good^(B) things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion^(C) against me.’”

A Living Sacrifice

12 Therefore, I urge you,^(A) brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,^(B) holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform^(C) to the pattern of this world,^(D) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.^(E) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is^(F)—his good, pleasing^(G) and perfect will.

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:^(A)

¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling^(A) or arguing,

¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances;^(A) for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.^{(A) 2} People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,^(B) boastful, proud,^(C) abusive,^(D) disobedient to their parents,^(E) ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,