12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 2 by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 3 – which is your reasonable service.
12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 4 by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 5 – which is your reasonable service.
1:15 6 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 7 over all creation, 8
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn 9 from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 10
1:19 For God 11 was pleased to have all his 12 fullness dwell 13 in the Son 14
1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, 15 whether things on earth or things in heaven.