Romans 12:2

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Romans 12:2

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Summary

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Be not

Be ye

Good

General references

Luke 22:26

Bible References

Be not

“You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.

Any person who does any of these detestable practices must be cut off from his people.

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,

as I am not of the world.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God.

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens,

the spirit now working in the disobedient.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Adulteresses!

Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan,

the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

Be ye

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

God, create a clean heart for me
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

You took off

your former way of life, the old self

that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

He saved us—
not by works of righteousness that we had done,
but according to His mercy,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Good

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

The instruction of the Lord is perfect,
renewing one’s life;
the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy,
making the inexperienced wise.

I delight in Your commands,
which I love.

My son, don’t forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commands;

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

for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

All Scripture is inspired by God

and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

General references

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.