Dedicated Service

12 Therefore ^(A)I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to ^(B)present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, ^[a]acceptable to God, which is your ^[b]spiritual service of worship.

² And do not ^(A)be conformed to ^(B)this ^[a]world, but be transformed by the ^(C)renewing of your mind, so that you may ^[b](D)prove what the will of God is, that which is good and ^[c]acceptable and perfect.

¹⁸ “^(A)You shall therefore take these words of mine to ^[a]heart and to soul; and you shall tie them as a sign on your ^[b]hand, and they shall be as ^[c]frontlets ^[d]on your forehead. ^19 (B)You shall also teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. ^20 (C)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ so that ^(D)your days and the days of your sons may be increased on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as ^[e](E)long as the heavens are above the earth.