Psalms 4:5
Context4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices 1
and trust in the Lord! 2
Malachi 3:3
Context3:3 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
Context12:1 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.
[4:5] 1 tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.
[4:5] 2 sn Trust in the
[12:1] 3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
[12:1] 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.