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Romans 11
³² For God has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so he could have mercy on everyone.
³³ Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!
³⁴ For who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice?
³⁵ And who has given him so much that he needs to pay it back?
³⁶ For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.
Romans 12
¹ And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
² Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
³ Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
⁴ Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function,
⁵ so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
⁶ In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you.