Worship is sacrificial right-living for God.
Romans 12
1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
That would hold true in reference to
worshiping Jesus.
Notice the theme of the
body that is that is to be presented unto God in that it
pleases Him is used
equally in reference to Jesus.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
pleasing unto God, which is your spiritual service.
2 Corinthians 5:6-9
(6) Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in
the body, we are absent from
the Lord:
(7) For we walk by faith, not by sight:
(8) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from
the body, and to be at home with
the Lord.
(9) Wherefore we aspire, that, whether at home or absent, we may be
pleasing unto Him.
This
holiness in body that is presented unto God is used
equally in reference to Jesus.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, pleasing unto God, which is your spiritual service.
1 Corinthians 7:32-34
(32) But I would have you without concern. He who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may
please the Lord:
(33) But he who is married is concerned about the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided.
(34) The unmarried woman and the virgin are concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be
holy in body: but she who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Thus, the Lord Jesus is the proper recipient of worship (latreia) which proves He is God.