Romans 12

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 is your reasonable service.

I do therefore earnestly beseech you, brethren, by those wonderful mercies of God, which have been now laid forth unto you, that you labour for true sanctification; and that ye do present your whole selves, souls and bodies, unto God, as wholly devoted and consecrated to his service: wherein ye shall offer a far more acceptable sacrifice unto him, than all the oblations under the Law: theirs were of beasts, yours of yourselves; theirs of beasts slain, yours is a living sacrifice; theirs was as it were a brute service, yours a reasonable.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

And be not ye conformed to the sinful fashions and dispositions of this present wicked world: but be changed and altered from the state of your corrupt nature, by the renewing of your mind and affections; so as that ye may attain to an experimental knowledge of that which is good and acceptable, and to a clear understanding of the holy and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:3

But to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

But let each man think soberly and modestly of himself and of his gifts, according to that true measure and proportion of faith and other graces, which God hath thought meet to bestow upon him.

Romans 12:5

So we, being many, are made one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

So we, being many, are but one mystical body united to Christ our Head: and are all members, not of ourselves but of one another; as the hand or foot is not his own member, but the body’s.

Romans 12:6

Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.

Let us prophesy according to the rule and analogy of that faith, which is contained in the articles of our Christian belief, and the Holy Scriptures.

Romans 12:7

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering.

Or any service or attendance about those things, which concern the provisions of the poor Saints, let him wait on that service, &c.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

Apply yourselves one to another in your affections; so as the same good opinion or respect that thou hast from another, thou mayest bear unto him again. Be not highminded and proudly conceited, neither do affect ambitious aspirings; but, &c.

Romans 12:17

Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Look carefully, as to your conscience before God, so to your honest reputation with men; and so order your ways, that ye may maintain a good fame in the world.

Romans 12:18

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

It may so fall out, that it may not be possible, such as some men’s dispositions are, to live peaceably with them; or such conditions of peace may be tendered, as may be utterly unlawful to be accepted: but, if it possibly may be, let there be no default in you, why you should not live peaceably with all men.

Romans 12:21

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Let not thine enemy’s despight so overcome thee, as to move thee to impatience or malice; but let thy patience and charity be such, as that thereby thou mayest exceed his maliciousness; and, if it may be, win him to relent, and acknowledge his own error.