Romans 12:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

Cross References

Psalm 116:12

What may I give to the Lord for all the good things which he has done for me?

Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

Isaiah 56:7

I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Numbers 7:21

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

Luke 7:47

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Romans 15:16

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:30

Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Romans 2:4

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

Romans 6:13

And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:16

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

Romans 6:19

I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

Romans 9:23

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

2 Corinthians 4:1

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

Ephesians 4:1

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Ephesians 5:10

Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Philippians 1:20

In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

Philippians 2:17

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

Philippians 4:18

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4:10

And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

1 Thessalonians 5:12

But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Philemon 1:10

My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

Philemon 1:9

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

Hebrews 13:22

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

1 Peter 2:20

What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

1 Peter 2:5

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.