Readings for Celebrating Advent

Offer Your Bodies to God as Living Sacrifices

12 Therefore I urge you, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice—holy and pleasing to God—which is your appropriate worship. ² Also, do not continue to conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you test and approve what is the will of God—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.