¹⁴ From what you offer you are to present this food offering to the Lord: the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them,

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.

³⁸ Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow^(A) to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”^(B)

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a](A)

Saying 18

⁹ From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering^(A) to the Lord: its fat, the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the internal organs and all the fat that is connected to them, ¹⁰ both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys. ¹¹ The priest shall burn them on the altar^(B) as a food offering^(C) presented to the Lord.^(D)

³ From the fellowship offering you are to bring a food offering to the Lord: the internal organs^(A) and all the fat^(B) that is connected to them, ⁴ both kidneys^(C) with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys. ⁵ Then Aaron’s sons^(D) are to burn it on the altar^(E) on top of the burnt offering^(F) that is lying on the burning wood;^(G) it is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.^(H)