Bible verses about "sacrifice" | Goodspeed

⁴ Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God, ⁵ and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God. ⁶ For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!" ⁷ It is you, therefore, who believe who see its value, but for men who do not believe, "The stone which the builders refused has been made a cornerstone," ⁸ and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny. ⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light; ¹⁰ you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."

⁹ The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

¹⁵ In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God—the utterance of lips that glorify God's name.

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

⁴ Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.

¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you to do.

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

⁸ But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. ² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

¹⁶ But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.