Romans 12:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:5

Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Romans 6:13

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

Romans 6:19

I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,

Romans 6:16

Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

2 Corinthians 5:20

For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

Isaiah 56:7

I will bring them into my holy mount and will make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their holocausts and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

Ephesians 5:10

Proving what is well pleasing to God:

Philippians 2:17

Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

Romans 2:4

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

1 Peter 2:20

For what glory is it, if committing sin, and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently; this is thankworthy before God.

Philippians 4:18

But I have all, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Romans 15:30

I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

Romans 15:16

That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? Your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Philippians 1:20

According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded, but with all confidence, as always, so now also shall Christ be magnified in my body, wither it be by life, or by death.

1 Timothy 2:3

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

1 Thessalonians 5:12

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you:

Luke 7:47

Wherefore I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less.

Hebrews 13:22

And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow have children, or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God.

1 Thessalonians 4:10

For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:

Romans 9:23

That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?

Hosea 14:2

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not;

2 Corinthians 10:1

Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you.

Deuteronomy 14:2

Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

Philemon 1:9

For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1:10

I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

Numbers 7:21

An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust: