You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
(j) The whole life of honor and love on the part of devoted Christians is their sacrifice.  Paul wrote, "I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand"  (2 Timothy 4:6).  "Even as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell"  (Ephesians 5:2).