Rm12:1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. - NIV
Rm15:1We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of
the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2Let each of us please his
neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3For Christ did not please
himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches [insults] of those who reproached you
fell on me." 4For whatever was written in former days was
written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the
encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5May the God of
[who gives] endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony
[unity] with one another,
in accord with [as you follow] Christ Jesus, 6that together you may with one
[heart and] voice
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7Therefore
welcome [accept] one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of [to
bring praise to] God. - ESV
Rm14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of
eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit, 18because
anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
19Let us therefore make every effort to do what
leads to peace and to mutual edification. - NIV
Rm8:5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds
set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the
Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The
mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and
peace; 7the sinful mind is hostile to God. It
does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those
controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 9You,
however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the
Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
does not belong to Christ. ..... 12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to
the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For
if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit
you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because
those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. - NIV
Rm15:14I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,
that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to
instruct one another. 15But on some points I have written to you very
boldly by way of reminder [to remind you of them again], because of the grace given me by God 16to
be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of
[proclaiming] the
gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be [Gentiles might become
an offering] acceptable [to God],
sanctified5 by the Holy Spirit. - ESV
1Jhn3:16This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for
us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17If anyone
has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him,
how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear children, let us not love
with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19This then is
how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in
his presence 20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater
than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before
God 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his
commands and do what pleases him. 23And this is his command: to
believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he
commanded us. 24Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in
them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he
gave us. - NIV
5 - Sanctify: to free from sin, purify, and set apart for a
sacred purpose. ^
Challenge: True Life