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.

¹³ Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,^(A) is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. ¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature,^(B) who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.^(C)