Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite. ² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect. ³ In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Conformed to This World

Of This World

Purpose of God

What is Good

Will of God

That Which Is Good

1 Peter 1:14

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

Romans 12:1

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

2 Corinthians 5:17

There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

Colossians 3:10

and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

Titus 3:5

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline,

James 4:4

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

2 Peter 2:20

After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

John 7:7

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Romans 7:12

So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.

Romans 7:22

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

2 Corinthians 4:4

there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

James 1:27

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, brothers, that the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

Romans 7:14

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

Ephesians 1:18

illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Ephesians 4:17-20

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

Ephesians 4:22-24

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Colossians 1:21-22

Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body,

1 Peter 1:18

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

1 Peter 2:3

You have had a taste of the kindness of the Lord:

1 Peter 4:2

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

(for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?