保罗在罗马书12章说：“我以神的慈悲劝你们，将身体献上，当作活祭，是圣洁的，是神所喜悦的。”

Says Paul in Romans 12: "I urge you... in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God."

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And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

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