Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. With this chapter Saint Paul begins his second part, in which he gives us most excellent lessons of morality, after which every Christian should aim to form his life, and thus resemble Jesus Christ and his saints. A.—That you present your bodies a living sacrifice. And how must this be done? says Saint John Chrysostom hom. xx. Let the eye abstain from sinful looks and glances, and it is a sacrifice; the tongue from speaking ill, and it is a sacrifice, and so forth—Your reasonable service, or worship, [1] from you; nothing being more reasonable, than for men to serve God with their souls and bodies, and so forth Witham.