Romans 12:1
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
1 Peter 2:5
and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.
Romans 6:13
and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?
Romans 6:19
I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.
Ephesians 4:1
So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
1 Corinthians 1:10
But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.
2 Corinthians 10:1
I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ??he Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away!
Luke 7:47
Therefore, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for she has loved me so much. But the man with little to be forgiven loves me but little."
Romans 9:23
so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,
Romans 12:2
You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.
1 Corinthians 6:13-20
It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.
2 Corinthians 4:16
So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.
1 Timothy 5:4
If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
Titus 3:4-8
But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed,
Hebrews 13:15-16
In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God??he utterance of lips that glorify God's name.
1 Peter 2:10-12
you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."
Romans 2:4
Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?
Romans 15:16
in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.
Romans 15:30
I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.
2 Corinthians 4:1
So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,
2 Corinthians 5:20
It is for Christ, therefore, that I am an envoy, seeing that God makes his appeal through me. On Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,
Ephesians 5:10
you must make sure what pleases the Lord.
Philippians 1:20
for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.
Philippians 2:1-5
So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,
Philippians 2:17
Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,
Philippians 4:18
You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves
1 Thessalonians 5:12
We beg you, brothers, to respect those who work with you and who lead you in the service of the Lord, and teach you.
1 Timothy 2:3
It is right to do this, and it pleases God our Savior,
Hebrews 10:20-22
by the new, living way which he has opened for us, through the curtain, that is, his physical nature,
Hebrews 13:22
I beg you brothers, to listen patiently to this appeal, for I have written you but briefly.
Romans 11:30-31
For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because they disobeyed,