 | Richard Hughes - 1874 - 386 lehte
...do not constitute the true service of God's temple, but express it only. When St. Paul beseeches us, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable, which is our reasonable service, he does not mean — "offer in your daily worship... | |
 | Sarah Robinson - 1876 - 108 lehte
...to walk henceforward in newness of life. How often we want a o reminder of this sort, needing to be besought by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service, because we are bought with a price. I have often seen Eliza in great... | |
 | Coleman Ivens - 1877 - 208 lehte
...Prayer of Oblation. In the Scotch Liturgy it still occupies this position. " St Paul beseeches us, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and accepttable, to God, as our reasonable service (Romans xii. 1). And the fathers esteemed it... | |
 | Francis Procter - 1881 - 552 lehte
...the first is principally designed to give expression to a feeling like St. Paul's,1 who 'beseeches us by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, as our reasonable service ;' for since Christ has given Himself for us,... | |
 | James Francis Montgomery - 1883 - 140 lehte
...to work it out, to tend and cherish the plant of grace, " with fear and trembling." We are entreated "by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice " unto Him. And it is deeply suggestive that in each of the Epistles to the seven Churches in the Book... | |
 | Walter Arthur Copinger - 1889 - 776 lehte
...Spirit;"2 but at the same time a "reasonable" service is required of us, and the Apostle "beseeches us by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God." 8 These are the "free-will offerings" with which the Psalmist teaches us... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 468 lehte
...in by edicts and force of arms. For if by the Apostle, Rom. xii. i, we are " beseeched as brethren by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service,"or worship, then is no man to be forced by... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 660 lehte
...died for them, and rose again," ort what principle can we disobey the Apostle, when he beseeches us by the mercies of God to present our bodies "a living sacrifice holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service ?" And can we thus truly present ourselves... | |
 | 1848 - 740 lehte
...exhortation of the Apostle, commencing at the first verse of the chapter ; wherein he beseeches us, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, and to be not conformed to this world, &c. ; or, more particular^*, perhaps, in regard to the more... | |
 | Peddie school, Hightstown, N.J. - 1916 - 274 lehte
...ministry of love. So John writes, "We love, because He first loved us." And so also Paul "beseeches us by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, for that is but our reasonable service." It is something like this which... | |
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beseeched as brethren by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service... 
