Yesaya 32:8

32:8 An honorable man makes honorable plans;

his honorable character gives him security. ¹ 

Roma 12:13

12:13 Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

Roma 12:1

Consecration of the Believer’s Life

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.

Pengkhotbah 4:9-10

Labor is Beneficial When Its Rewards Are Shared

4:9 Two people are better than one,

because they can reap ⁴  more benefit ⁵  from their labor.

4:10 For if they fall, one will help his companion up,

but pity ⁶  the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.

[32:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and he upon honorable things stands.”

[12:1]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[12:1]  ³ tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.

[12:1]  sn Taken as predicate adjectives, the terms alive, holy, and pleasing are showing how unusual is the sacrifice that believers can now offer, for OT sacrifices were dead. As has often been quipped about this text, “The problem with living sacrifices is that they keep crawling off the altar.”

[4:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “they have.”

[4:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “a good reward.”

[4:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “woe to him.”