12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 1 by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 2 – which is your reasonable service. 12:2 Do not be conformed 3 to this present world, 4 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve 5 what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, 6 whether things on earth or things in heaven.
1:1 From Paul, 7 an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
4:1 I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, 8 urge you to live 9 worthily of the calling with which you have been called, 10