So Paul says: “I urge you, brethren.” Here he’s an apostle! I mean, one of the big twelve, you can’t get much bigger than this. And he says: brothers, listen to me. So here we see, he says: “Therefore I urge you brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice.”  Paul is going to tell these people to give their life away. He needs something of a motivation. If I were to tell someone: “Look, you need to give your life away” they would probably ask “Why?”. And Paul says here: “by the...