Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1 Peter 2:5
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:13
Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one to obey as slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in human terms, because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for holiness.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
1 Corinthians 1:10
I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same judgment.
2 Corinthians 10:1
I, Paul, myself urge you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away!
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little."
Romans 9:23
in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 6:13-20
"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, yet our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice their religion in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
Titus 3:4-8
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,
Hebrews 13:15-16
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
1 Peter 2:10-12
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Romans 2:4
Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:30
Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together with him, then, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 5:10
and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
Philippians 1:20
as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 2:1-5
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
Philippians 2:17
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Philippians 4:18
I have received full payment and even more; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to do so more and more.
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we ask you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
1 Timothy 2:3
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Hebrews 10:20-22
by a new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,
Hebrews 13:22
I urge you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
1 Peter 2:20
For what credit is it, if when you do wrong and are beaten for it you patiently endure? But if when you do right and suffer for it you patiently endure, you have favor with God.
Romans 11:30-31
Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,