Romans 12:2

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-2

‘I therefore plead with you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. And do not be fashioned according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.’ Paul calls on the Roman Christians to perform an act of priestly service (latreian), on the basis of God’s many mercies revealed earlier, by offering their... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-21

A Call To Make Real In The Church And In The World The Righteousness Which They Have Received (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God in salvation: · in applying to His people the righteousness of Christ (Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25), · in uniting them with Christ in His death and resurrection (Romans 6:1-11), · in making them righteous within by His Spirit (Romans 8:1-18), · and in having demonstrated God’s sovereign activity in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12:1 f. Practical Holiness.— On his doctrine Paul grounds a moral homily. Romans 12:1 . “ Therefore” covers the entire previous teaching. “ The compassions of God” link this paragraph to the last: the tenderness of the Divine mercy prompts to consecration, “ Present your bodies” recalls Romans 6:12 f.*; the demand for physical consecration arose from the prevalence of bodily sin ( cf. Romans 6:6 ; Romans 6:19, etc.). The body is made “ a living sacrifice” in the activities of daily... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 12:2

Be not conformed to this world; do not fashion or accommodate yourselves to the corrupt principles, customs, or courses of worldly and wicked men; and what they are, you will find in Romans 13:13; Ephesians 4:18,Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3. You have somewhat the like counsel, Exodus 23:2; 1 Peter 1:14. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind: q.d. Be you regenerated, and changed in your whole man; beginning at the mind, by which the Spirit of God worketh upon the inferior faculties of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 12:2

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 12:2. And be not conformed.—Be not configured to this world, but rather as Christ was transfigured on the mount. Be not like the men of this world whose all is in the present. Live for eternity.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 12:2Nonconformity to the world.—We must be careful not to fall into the error of disparaging this world. The habit of holding many secular things in abhorrence is nonsense, bigotry. We need to look on all questions apart from prejudice, and be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 The Christian Life a Transfiguration. Notice: I. Where Paul begins with an inward renewal, "the renewing of your mind." He goes deep down, because he had learned in his Master's school who said, "Make the tree good, and the fruit good." This new creation of the inner man is only possible as the result of the communication of a life from without. That communicated life from without is the life of Jesus Christ Himself put into your heart, on condition of your simply opening the door... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 12:2

DISCOURSE: 1905AGAINST CONFORMITY TO THE WORLDRomans 12:2. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE morality, no less than the doctrines, of the Gospel far excels the boasted inventions of philosophy. There is not one principle in the human heart, or one action of our lives, which is not depraved by sin. The whole system of man’s conduct is deranged: and to rectify it in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 12:1-21

Chapter 12I beseech you therefore, brethren ( Romans 12:1 ),Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things,that ye present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service ( Romans 12:1 ).God does not and has not made demands upon us. The gospel is reasonable. God said, "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord" ( Isaiah 1:18 ).Now, of course, existential... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 12:1-21

Romans 12:1 . I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God. Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies to God, in chastity and in temperance, as temples of the Most High. Herodotus, the Greek priest, confesses that in the festival of Venus, the better sort of folks presented themselves to pay their respects to the goddess, while the lower sort indulged in crimes that cannot be named. Romans... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world. Conformation and transformation1. “World” has various meanings.(1) Time.(2) An age--the Messianic, e.g., as contrasted with the Jewish, or the past as opposed to the present or coming age.(3) A state, as the present in distinction from the future in antagonism with the good.(4) “Worldliness,” a spirit or principle of evil pervading the world. It is this to which we must not be conformed.2. It is well to define the term in order to avoid two... read more

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