A Living Sacrifice
1 zI appeal to you therefore, brothers,1 by the mercies of God, ato present your bodies bas a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.2 2 cDo not be conformed to this world,3 but be transformed by dthe renewal of your mind, that by testing you may ediscern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.4
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and fwhat does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,1
and to gwalk humbly with your God?
The Indictment of the Lord
1 qHear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.
22 And Samuel said,
w“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, xto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.