19 I am speaking ^zin human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to ^asanctification.

A Living Sacrifice

1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers,¹ by the mercies of God, to ^lpresent your bodies as a ^mliving sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.²

15 Do your best to ^fpresent yourself to God as one approved,¹ a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the ^gword of truth.