December 30 – Shaped for Glory

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, December 30th, Shaped

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for glory.
Have you ever felt pressure to

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become a version of yourself
that isn’t even you?

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Like you’re constantly being
shaped by trends, opinions,

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comparison, and expectations.
But God is shaping you too, and

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His shaping is freedom, not
fake.

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Psalm 149 verse one says praise
the Lord.

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Sing to the Lord a new song.
His praise in the assembly of

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the godly worship is part of
your transformation.

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When you praise God, you’re
reminding your heart who He is

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and who you are in Him.
First John chapter 3, verses 2

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to 3 says, Beloved, we are God’s
children now, and what we will

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be has not yet appeared.
But we know that when He

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appears, we shall be like Him,
and everyone who thus hopes in

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Him purifies himself as He is
pure.

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That is such a deep promise.
You are already God’s child, and

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God is making you more like
Jesus.

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Not by pretending, not by
performing.

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By hope.
That purifies hope.

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That changes what you want, what
you love, and what you choose.

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In Romans chapter 12, verse 2
tells you how that happens.

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Do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the

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renewal of your mind.
Conformed means pressed into a

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mold.
Transformed means changed from

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the inside out.
God renews your mind through His

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Word, through prayer, through
worship, and through daily

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surrender.
That’s how you start discerning

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what God’s will is, what is
good, acceptable, and perfect,

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so you’re not stuck being who
the world labels you as.

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You’re being shaped for glory.
You’re becoming more like Jesus.

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One thought at a time, one
choice at a time. 1 surrendered

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moment at a time.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank You that
I am your child right now and

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that You are shaping me to be
like Jesus.

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Help me resist being conformed
to the world’s mold, renew my

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mind with Your truth, and
transform my heart with Your

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Spirit.
Let my worship be real, my life,

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my choices, my words, so I
reflect Your glory.

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Keep purifying me through hope
and lead me in what is good and

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pleasing to You in Jesus name,
Amen.

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with clarity in your spirit,

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Psalm 149 World English Bible
Praise Yahweh.

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Sing to Yahweh a new song, His
praise in the assembly of the

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Saints.
Let Israel rejoice in Him who

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made them.
Let the children of Zion be

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joyful in their king.
Let them praise His name in the

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dance.
Let them sing praises to Him

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with tambourine and harp.
For Yahweh takes pleasure in His

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people.
He crowns the humble with

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salvation.
Let the Saints rejoice in honor.

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Let them sing for joy on their
beds.

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May the high praises of God be
in their mouths, and A2 edged

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sword in their hand.
To execute vengeance on the

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nations, and punishments on the
peoples, To bind their kings

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with chains, and their nobles
with fetters of iron.

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To execute on them the written
judgment.

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All his Saints have this honor.
Praise Yah first.

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John 3.
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Bible.
Beloved, now we are children of

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God.
It is not yet revealed what we

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will be, but we know that when
He is revealed we will be like

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Him, for we will see Him just as
He is.

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Everyone who has this hope set
on him purifies himself even as

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He is pure.
First Corinthians 15 World

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English Bible Now I declare to
you, brothers, the good news

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which I preach to you, which
also you received, in which you

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also stand, by which also you
are saved, if you hold firmly

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the Word which I preach to you,
unless you believed in vain.

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For I delivered to you first of
all that which I also received,

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that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,

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that He was buried, that He was
raised on the third day

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according to the Scriptures, and
that He appeared to Cephas, then

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to the 12.
Then He appeared to over 500

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brothers at once, most of whom
remain until now, but some have

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also fallen asleep.
Then He appeared to James, then

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to all the apostles, and last of
all, as to the child born at the

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wrong time, He appeared to me
also.

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For I am the least of the
apostles who is not worthy to be

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called an apostle, because I
persecuted the Assembly of God.

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But by the grace of God I am
what I am.

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His grace which was given to me
was not futile, but I worked

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more than all of them, Yet not
I, but the grace of God which

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was with me.
Whether then it is I or they.

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So we preach, and so you
believed.

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Now if Christ is preached that
He has been raised from the

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dead, how do some among you say
that there is no resurrection of

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the dead?
But if there is no resurrection

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of the dead, neither has Christ
been raised.

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If Christ has not been raised,
then our preaching is in vain,

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and your faith also is in vain.
Yes, we are also found false

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witnesses of God, because we
testified about God that He

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raised up Christ, whom He didn’t
raise up.

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If it is true that the dead are
not raised.

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For if the dead aren’t raised,
neither has Christ been raised.

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If Christ has not been raised,
your faith is vain, you are

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still in your sins.
Then they also who are fallen

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asleep in Christ have perished.
If we have only hoped in Christ

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in this life we are of all men
most pitiable.

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But now Christ has been raised
from the dead.

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He became the first fruit of
those who are asleep.

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For since death came by man, the
resurrection of the dead also

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came by man.
For as in Adam all die, so also

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in Christ all will be made
alive, but each in his own

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order.
Christ the first fruits, then

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those who are Christ’s at his
coming.

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Then the end comes, when he will
deliver up the Kingdom to God

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the Father, when he will have
abolished all rule, and all

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authority and power.
For he must reign until he has

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put all his enemies under his
feet.

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The last enemy that will be
abolished is death, for he put

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all things in subjection under
his feet.

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But when he says all things are
put in subjection, it is evident

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that He is accepted.
Who subjected all things to Him?

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When all things have been
subjected to him, then the Son

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will also himself be subjected
to him.

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Who subjected all things to him,
that God may be All in all.

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Or else what will they do who
are baptized for the dead?

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If the dead aren’t raised at
all, why then are they baptized

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for the dead?
Why do we also stand in jeopardy

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every hour?
I affirm by the boasting in you

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which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord, I die daily.

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If I fought with animals at
Ephesus for human purposes, what

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does it profit me?
If the dead are not raised, then

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let’s eat and drink, for
tomorrow we die.

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Don’t be deceived.
Evil companionships corrupt good

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morals.
Wake up righteously and don’t

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sin, for some have no knowledge
of God.

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I say this to your shame, but
someone will say, how are the

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dead raised, and with what kind
of body do they come, You

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foolish one?
That which yourself sow is not

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made alive unless it dies.
That which you sow you don’t sow

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the body that will be but a bare
grain, maybe of wheat or of some

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other kind.
But God gives it a body even as

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it pleased Him, and to each seat
a body of its own.

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All flesh is not the same flesh,
but there is one flesh of men,

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another flesh of animals,
another of fish, and another of

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birds.
There are also celestial bodies

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and terrestrial bodies, but the
glory of the celestial differs

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from that of the terrestrial.
There is one glory of the sun,

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another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars.

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For one star differs from
another star in glory.

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So also is the resurrection of
the dead.

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The body is sown perishable.
It is raised imperishable.

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It is sown in dishonor.
It is raised in glory.

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It is sown in weakness.
It is raised in power.

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It is sown a natural body.
It is raised a spiritual body.

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There is a natural body and
there is also a spiritual body.

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So also it is written.
The first man, Adam, became a

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living soul.
The last Adam became a life

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giving spirit.
However, that which is spiritual

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isn’t first, but that which is
natural.

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Then that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth

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made of dust.
The second man is the Lord from

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heaven, as is the one made of
dust.

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Such are those who are also made
of dust, and as is the heavenly,

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such are they also that are
heavenly.

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As we have borne the image of
those made of dust, let’s also

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bear the image of the heavenly.
Now I say this, brothers, that

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flesh and blood can’t inherit
God’s Kingdom, neither does the

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perishable inherit imperishable.
Behold, I tell you a mystery.

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We will not all sleep, but we
will all be changed in a moment,

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in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet.

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For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised

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incorruptible, and we will be
changed.

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For this perishable body must
become imperishable, and this

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mortal must put on immortality.
But when this perishable body

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will have become imperishable,
and this mortal will have put on

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immortality, then what is
written will happen.

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Death is swallowed up in
victory.

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Death, where is your sting?
Hades, where’s your victory?

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The sting of death is sin, and
the power of sin is the law.

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But thanks be to God, who gives
us the victory through our Lord

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Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers,

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be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the Lord’s work,

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because you know that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord.

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Romans 12/1 to two world English
Bible.

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Therefore I urge you, brothers,
by the mercies of God, to

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present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to

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God, which is your spiritual
service.

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Don’t be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the

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renewing of your mind so that
you may prove what is the good,

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well pleasing, and perfect will
of God.

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