Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My son, don't forget my instruction, and keep my commandments carefully in mind.

Romans 12:1

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in him!

Psalm 51:10

God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!

Psalm 119:47-48

I will take delight in your commands, which I love.

Proverbs 3:13-18

How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,

Ezekiel 36:26

"""I'm going to give you a new heart, and I'm going to give you a new spirit within all of your deepest parts. I'll remove that rock-hard heart of yours and replace it with one that's sensitive to me.

Colossians 3:10

and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

Titus 3:5

"Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,

Psalm 19:7-11

The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.

Psalm 119:174

I am longing for your deliverance, LORD, and your instruction is my joy.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.

Galatians 1:4

He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

James 4:4

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

1 John 2:15-17

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

All those who had become settled down and at home, living on the earth, will worship it, everyone whose name had not been written in the Book of Life belonging to the lamb that had been slaughtered since the foundation of the world.

Psalm 119:72

Instruction that comes from you is better for me than thousands of gold and silver coins. Yod

Psalm 119:97

How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation.

Psalm 119:103

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

Psalm 119:128

I truly consider all of your precepts all of them to be just, while I despise every false way. Peyh

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

Romans 7:12

So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.

James 1:27

A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 John 3:13

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.

Exodus 23:2

You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.

Leviticus 18:29-30

Anyone who does any of these detestable things whoever the person may be is to be eliminated from contact with his people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

"When you enter the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't learn the detestable practices of those nations there.

Ezekiel 18:31

Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?

John 14:30

I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 1:18

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.

Ephesians 4:17-20

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

Ephesians 4:22-24

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

Colossians 1:21-22

You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,

1 Peter 2:3

Surely you have tasted that the Lord is good!

1 Peter 4:2

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.

Ephesians 5:9-10

for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Be not

Exodus 23:2
You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.
Leviticus 18:29
Anyone who does any of these detestable things whoever the person may be is to be eliminated from contact with his people.
Deuteronomy 18:9
"When you enter the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't learn the detestable practices of those nations there.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.
John 14:30
I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
Galatians 1:4
He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.
Ephesians 2:2
that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.
Ephesians 4:17
Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.
James 1:27
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.
1 Peter 4:2
so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.
2 Peter 1:4
Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
1 John 2:15
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.
1 John 3:13
So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 4:4
Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.
Revelation 13:8
All those who had become settled down and at home, living on the earth, will worship it, everyone whose name had not been written in the Book of Life belonging to the lamb that had been slaughtered since the foundation of the world.

Be ye

Romans 13:14
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.
Psalm 51:10
God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.
Ezekiel 18:31
Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26
"""I'm going to give you a new heart, and I'm going to give you a new spirit within all of your deepest parts. I'll remove that rock-hard heart of yours and replace it with one that's sensitive to me.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!
Ephesians 1:18
Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,
Ephesians 4:22
Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,
Colossians 1:21
You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,
Colossians 3:10
and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.
Titus 3:5
"Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,

Good

Romans 12:1
I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.
Romans 7:12
So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.
Psalm 19:7
The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.
Psalm 119:47
I will take delight in your commands, which I love.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, don't forget my instruction, and keep my commandments carefully in mind.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

General references

Luke 22:26
But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.

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