Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
The word therefore shows these exhortations are conclusions drawn from what precedes: since all things are of God and from God and to God, you ought to present your bodies to Him. Paul addresses you as brethren, expressing both his tender love and your relation to one another and to God, and entreats rather than commands, enforcing everything by the mercies of God displayed in your election and calling.
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more eftectual, and refresh his patient with variety, so the Lord, consulting our weakness, doth by his word administering it to ns now in this, anon in that ordinance for our greater dcliglit and profit ; aiming still at the same end in all, even tlie promoting of holiness in the liearts and lives of his people ; what are they all but as veins...
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20
Paul calls you brethren and beseeches rather than commands, showing great meekness; he works not merely on your understanding but labors to move your will and affections. You must present yourselves as a living sacrifice, voluntary and whole, your entire person, soul and body, cemented to God by the blood of Christ and the bonds of love.
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