12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

²⁴ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

² That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.