Psalm 139:7-16

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⁷Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee^(A) from your presence?
⁸If I go up to the heavens,^(B) you are there;
    if I make my bed^(C) in the depths, you are there.
⁹If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰even there your hand will guide me,^(D)
    your right hand^(E) will hold me fast.
¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹²even the darkness will not be dark^(F) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³For you created my inmost being;^(G)
    you knit me together^(H) in my mother’s womb.^(I)
¹⁴I praise you^(J) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,^(K)
    I know that full well.
¹⁵My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(L) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together^(M) in the depths of the earth.^(N)
¹⁶Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(O) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

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Romans 12:1-8

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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. ²Do 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.

Humble Service in the Body of Christ

³For by the grace given me^(H) I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. ⁴For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,^(I) ⁵so in Christ we, though many, form one body,^(J) and each member belongs to all the others. ⁶We have different gifts,^(K) according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying,^(L) then prophesy in accordance with your^[a] faith;^(M) ⁷if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;^(N) ⁸if it is to encourage, then give encouragement;^(O) if it is giving, then give generously;^(P) if it is to lead,^[b] do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.