Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.
1 Peter 1:14
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.
Romans 12:1
I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if any one is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!
Colossians 3:10
And clothe yourselves with that new self, which, as it gains in knowledge, is being constantly renewed 'in resemblance to him who made it.'
Titus 3:5
not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfillment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that Washing which was a New Birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit,
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.
Romans 13:14
No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.
Galatians 1:4
Gave himself for our sins, in accordance with the will of God and Father,
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Everything that is written under divine inspiration is helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness;
James 4:4
Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
2 Peter 2:20
If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;
1 John 4:4-5
You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Revelation 13:8
All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.
John 17:14
I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.
Romans 7:12
And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:22
At heart I delight in the Law of God;
1 Corinthians 3:19
For in God's sight this world's wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of-'One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,'
2 Corinthians 4:4
Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.
James 1:27
That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this--to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.
1 John 3:13
Do not wonder, Brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 5:19
We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.
John 14:30
I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;
Romans 7:14
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Ephesians 1:18
That your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God's Call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ's People,
Ephesians 2:2
For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.
Ephesians 4:17-20
This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,
Ephesians 4:22-24
For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;
Colossians 1:21-22
And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--
1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,
1 Peter 2:3
since 'you have found by experience that the Lord is kind.'
1 Peter 4:2
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.
2 Peter 1:4
For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.
Revelation 12:9
Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Ephesians 5:9-10
For the outcome of life in the Light may be seen in every form of goodness, righteousness, and sincerity--
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?