Psalms 4:5

4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices 1 

and trust in the Lord! 2 

Malachi 3:3

3:3 He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.

Romans 12:1

Consecration of the Believer’s Life

12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 3  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 4  – which is your reasonable service.

1 tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.

2 sn Trust in the Lord. The psalmist urges his enemies to make peace with God and become his followers.

3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

4 tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.