Give Your Lives to God

12 So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives^[a] as a living sacrifice to him—an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what he has done, it is only right that you should worship him in this way.

⁵ And they gave in a way that we did not expect: They gave themselves to the Lord and to us before they gave their money. This is what God wants.