Readings for Celebrating Advent

A Living and Holy Sacrifice

12 Therefore ^(A)I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to ^(B)present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your ^[a]spiritual service of worship. ² And do not ^(C)be conformed to ^(D)this ^[b]world, but be transformed by the ^(E)renewing of your mind, so that you may ^(F)approve what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and ^[c]perfect.