Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi
How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you e
but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; yo
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay thei
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce
David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,”
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackclot