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Romans 12:1,2
The Christian's Life a Reasonable Service to God. 12:1-21
The fundamental exhortation:
The Christian's Life a Reasonable Service to God. 12:1-21
The fundamental exhortation:
CHAPTER XII. _Such displays of God's mercy as Jews and Gentiles have received_ _should induce them to consecrate themselves to Him; and not be_ _conformed to the world_, 1, 2. _Christians are exho...
I BESEECH YOU - The apostle, having finished the argument of this Epistle, proceeds now to close it with a practical or hortatory application, showing its bearing on the duties of life, and the practi...
III. EXHORTATIONS AND THE CONCLUSION. Chapter s 12-16. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Body as a Willing Sacrifice. (Romans 12:1 .)_ 2. Service. (Romans 12:3 .) 3. The Daily Walk in Holiness. (Romans 12:9 .)...
ROMANS 12:1 F. PRACTICAL HOLINESS. On his doctrine Paul grounds a moral homily. Romans 12:1. Therefore covers the entire previous teaching. The compassions of God link this paragraph to the last: the...
Brothers, I call upon you, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to him, a living, consecrated sacrifice, well-pleasing to God--for that is the only kind of worship which is truly spiritual. A...
THE TRUE WORSHIP AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANGE (Romans 12:1-2)...
BESEECH. App-134. THEREFORE. This refers to Romans 8:39, chaps. 9-11 being. digression. BY. App-104.Romans 12:1. MERCIES. Greek. _oiktirmos._ Only here, 2 Corinthians 1:3.
Romans 12:1-8. Christian practice as the result of Christian truth: self-dedication to the service of God in the Christian Church 1. _I beseech you therefore_ The Doctrinal Part of the Epistle, strict...
ΟΥ̓͂Ν. Cf. Romans 5:1; Ephesians 4:1; Colossians 3:1. The exhortation presents the true state of a Christian as the consequence of all that has gone before. ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ. The appeal is to their realisation...
Romans 12:1-2. The general principle is stated....
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, побуждать кого-л. сделать что-л. Это слово обозначает ободрение войск перед атакой. Здесь просьба основана на авторитете Павла как апостола ...
DISCOURSE: 1904 DEVOTEDNESS TO GOD RECOMMENDED Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which...
_ROMANS 12:1_. The Apostle has now finished his proofs and explications relating to the justification, calling, and election of the believing Gentiles, or to their being admitted into the kingdom and...
_TEXT_ Romans 12:1-2. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. Romans 12:2 And be...
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. The strictly Doctrinal teachin...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
LIVING SACRIFICE] as opposed to the sacrifice of a slain beast: cp. Romans 6:13. REASONABLE] i.e. an act of the reason....
PARAPHRASE. '(1) God's redeeming love should be answered by the true sacrifice and spiritual ritual service of a life of purity and self-denial and work for God. (2) Do not follow the fashions and cus...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 12 TRUE *WORSHIP 12:1-2 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, God has shown you his kindness. Therefore I am appealing to you. Of...
XII. (1) At this point the Apostle turns from the speculative, or doctrinal, portion of his Epistle, and begins a series of practical exhortations to his readers as to their lives as Christians. In t...
CHAPTER 25 CHRISTIAN CONDUCT THE ISSUE OF CHRISTIAN TRUTH Romans 12:1 AGAIN we may conjecture a pause, a long pause and deliberate, in the work of Paul and Tertius. We have reached the end, generall...
παρακαλῶ οὖν : the reference is to all that has been said since Romans 1:16, but especially to what more closely precedes. _Cf._ Ephesians 4:1; 1 Timothy 2:1;...
DEVOTING SELF AND USING GIFTS Romans 12:1 _ Therefore_ links this practical appeal to the whole of the sublime argument, which reaches its climax in the previous chapter. It is easier to die once for...
The word "therefore" links all that is now to be said with everything that has gone before. Because of the grace of God, the believer is called to certain attitudes and actions. The very first of thes...
I beseech (1) you therefore, brethren, (a) by the mercies of God, that ye (b) present your (c) bodies a (d) living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your (e) reasonable service. (1) The...
With this chapter St. 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...
TWENTY-FOURTH PASSAGE (12:1, 2). THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT. Vv. 1. “ _I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unt...
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And be not conformed to this...
CONTENTS In this Chapter, the Apostle shews some of the blessed Effects, which, through Grace, arise out of a Justified, and Sanctified State, before God. And he very sweetly proves thereby, the Work...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
After having handled those things necessary for the erection of the kingdom of God, — that righteousness is to be sought from God alone, that salvation is to come to us alone from his mercy, that all...
The apostle resumes the thread of his instructions, by taking up as he does in all his epistles the moral consequences of his doctrine. He places the believer at the outset on the ground of God's merc...
I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD,.... The apostle having finished the doctrinal part of this epistle, proceeds to that which is more practical; and enforces the several duties...
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, _which is_ your reasonable service. Ver. 1. _I beseech_] _Volumus...
_I beseech you therefore, brethren_ Paul uses to suit his exhortations to the doctrines he has been delivering. So here the general exhortation to universal holiness, grounded on, and inferred from, t...
THE MERCIES OF GOD; those which he bestows in and through Jesus Christ, as the apostle has exhibited in the former part of this epistle. For he now proceeds to draw from the deep doctrines there unfol...
PRACTICAL RESPONSE IN BELIEVERS Now Paul has completed his treatment of the subject of God's counsel in reference to salvation - counsel accomplished by a hand of mercy. What then is to be the proper...
Present you bodies - A. By the mercies of God B. A living sacrifice C. Holy D. Acceptable unto God - render religious homage, to serve, to minister to God, to do service Reasonable service - "spi...
ROMANS 12:1. BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, TO PRESENT YOUR BODIES. LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR SPIRITUAL SERVICE. 'beseech' -3870. parakaleo par...
1,2 The apostle having closed the part of his epistle wherein he argues and proves various doctrines which are practically applied, here urges important duties from gospel principles. He entreated th...
OLBGrk; ROMANS CHAPTER 12 ROMANS 12:1 Paul exhorteth to holiness and conformity to God's will; and to think soberly of the gifts allotted every man respectively. ROMANS 12:4,5 We are all members of on...
[The theme of this great Epistle is that "the righteous shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17), and its grand conclusion is that those who seek life this way find it, and all who seek it in other ways fai...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus Then again, Paul exhorts us "to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."[75] Athenagoras A Pl...
Romans 12:1 beseech G3870 (G5719) you G5209 therefore G3767 brethren G80 by G1223 mercies G3628 God G2316 present...
A CALL TO TOTAL CONSECRATION (12:1-2). ‘I therefore plead with you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual s...
1). CHRISTIAN LIVING (12:1-13:14). In this passage Paul calls on God's people so to present their bodies as a living offering to God, through their having died with Christ and risen with Him (Romans 6...
A CALL TO MAKE REAL IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE RECEIVED (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God i...
1. _Practical Theme; Duties according to special Gifts._ The theme is fully stated in Romans 12:1-2; then follows an exhortation to humility (Romans 12:3-5), which introduces the special reference to...
Romans 12:1. I BESEECH (or, ‘exhort') YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN. The connection is undoubtedly with the conclusion of chap. 11; but for this very reason the practical inference is from the entire doctri...
THEREFORE (ουν). This inferential participle gathers up all the great argument of Chapter s Romans 12:1-11. Now Paul turns to exhortation (παρακαλω), "I beseech you."BY THE MERCIES (δια των οικτιρ...
MERCIES That is, The "mercies" described in (Romans 3:22); (Romans 8:39). SERVICE (Greek, "latreia", translated "divine service"). (Hebrews 9:1)....
Romans 12:1 I. We have in the text a very remarkable way of putting what I may call the sum of Christian service. The main leading idea is the gathering together of all Christian duty into the one mig...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren,_ Paul is a calm reasoner. He is a bold starer of truth, but here he comes to pleading with us. I think that I see him lift the pen from the paper and...
CONTENTS: Christian life and service. Consecration to Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Since we have been justified through grace, by faith in Christ, it is our first duty to surren...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God._ Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies...
SO THEN, MY BROTHERS. In the first eleven Chapter s, Paul showed us man's guilt and God's offer of salvation. Now he shows us the obligation which God places on those who reach out through faith to se...
_I beseech you._ A LESSON TO MINISTERS Ministers of the gospel should be gentle, tender, and affectionate. They should be kind in feeling, and courteous in manner--like a father or mother. Nothing is...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:1 God’s Righteousness in Everyday Life. The gift of God’s saving righteousness leads to a new life. Paul explains some practical results of God’s saving mercy....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 12:1.—St. Paul sums up the argument of the foregoing part of the epistle with plain rules for Christian living, and advisedly calls religion a reasonable service. Pythagoras r...
EXPOSITION VER. 1–CH. 14:23 III. HORTATORY. It is St. Paul's way to supplement his doctrinal treatises with detailed practical directions as to the conduct that should of necessity ensue on belief in...
I beseech you therefore, brethren (Romans 12:1), Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things, that ye present...
1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Corinthians 6:13;...
I beseech [π α ρ α κ α λ ω]. See on consolation, Luke 6:24. By the mercies [δ ι α τ ω ν ο ι κ τ ι ρ μ ω ν]. By, not as an adjuration, but as presenting the motive for obedience. I use the compassion...
A GOD-PLANNED LIFE Ephesians 2:8; _Romans 12:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read of Epaphras that he prayed for the saints that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. The will of G...
GOD'S CALL TO CONSECRATION Romans 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Permit me to enlarge upon the expression, "THEREFORE." Our chapter opens thus: "I beseech you THEREFORE, brethren, by the mercies of God....
I exhort you — St. Paul uses to suit his exhortations to the doctrines he has been delivering. So here the general use from the whole is contained in Romans 12:1. The particular uses follow, from the...
Observe here, 1. The apostle's loving and courteous compellation, BRETHREN: so he calls the believing Romans. They were brethren by place and nation, and brethren by religion and profession: EODEM san...