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 unfolded inferences of a practical nature.

Present your bodies; as the priest presented to God the bodies of the victims slain.

A living sacrifice; in contrast with the slain sacrifices of the Mosaic law. To present the body to God as a living sacrifice, is to consecrate it, with the living soul that inhibits it, to God's service. 1 Corinthians 6:15-20.

Reasonable service; a service of the spirit, in contrast with a merely outward and bodily service. Compare 1 Peter 2:5.

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Old Testament