{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[{"id":"chrysostom.JHN.17.19.1","author":"John Chrysostom","author_dates":"c. 347-407","tradition":"Patristic (Greek East)","era":"Early church","died":407,"ref":"John 17:19","href":"/jhn/17/#v19-chrysostom","text":"Rom. xii. 1","snippet":"… dedicate them to Thee, and make them an offering”; this He saith, either because their Head was being made so, or because they also were sacrificed; for, “Present,” it saith, “your bodies a living sacrifice, holy” ( Rom. xii. 1 ); and, “We were counted as sheep for the slaughter."},{"id":"bengel.JHN.4.24.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 4:24","href":"/jhn/4/#v24-bengel","text":"Rom. xii. 1","snippet":"… ought to correspond our worship: and to the living God living gifts ought to be offered : Heb. ix. 14, “ How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc., purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Rom. xii. 1, “I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."}],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.16.13.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 16:13","href":"/jhn/16/#v13-westcott","text":"Rom. xii. 4","snippet":"Comp. v. 22 ; Matt. ix. 35 ; Acts xvi. 26 ; Rom. xii. 4."}],"5":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.17.21.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 17:21","href":"/jhn/17/#v21-westcott","text":"Rom. xii. 5","snippet":"… the Holy Trinity with which it is compared, is offered as something far more than a mere moral unity of purpose, feeling, affection ; it is, in some mysterious mode which we cannot distinctly apprehend, a vital unity (Rom. xii. 5 ; Eph. iv. 4)."}],"6":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.16.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:16","href":"/jhn/1/#v16-henry","text":"Rom. xii. 6","snippet":"It is a gift according to grace, Rom. xii. 6."},{"id":"henry.JHN.13.25.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 13:25","href":"/jhn/13/#v25-henry","text":"Rom. xii. 6","snippet":"As every one hath received the gift, so let him minister the same for a common good, Rom. xii. 6."}],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[],"17":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.1.16.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 1:16","href":"/jhn/1/#v16-ryle","text":"Rom. xii. 17","snippet":"\" In return for.\" .(Rom. xii. 17.) and \"On account of\" (Acts xii. 23 ; Ephes."}],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.13.27.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 13:27","href":"/jhn/13/#v27-calvin","text":"Romans 12:20","snippet":"Thus, when, by acts of kindness to enemies, we heap coals of fire on their heads, (Romans 12:20,) if they are utterly incurable, they are the more enraged and inflamed to their destruction."}],"21":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.18.23.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 18:23","href":"/jhn/18/#v23-calvin","text":"Romans 12:21","snippet":"… duty of him who has been struck to brook the injury done him, without saying a word, but, first, to endure it with patience, and, secondly, to give up all thoughts of revenge, and to endeavor to overcome evil by good, (Romans 12:21."}]}}