Romans 12:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Titus 3:5

Good

2 Timothy 3:16

General references

Luke 22:26

Bible References

Be not

the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil.

for the prince of the world is coming:

if you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you.

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

for the wisdom of this world is folly, in the eye of God: as it is written, "he surprizes the wise in all their artifices."

to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?

that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to

in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world.

As for those who have renounc'd the pollutions of the world, by their owning Jesus Christ for their Lord and saviour, if they are prevail'd upon to be entangled therein again, their last state is worse than the first.

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

ye are of God, my dear children, and you have overcome them: because he that is in you, is superior to him that is in the world.

we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.

the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

Be ye

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

You then that formerly were alienated from God, and were enemies by your imaginations and wicked practices, even you has Jesus Christ now reconciled to the body of his church,

improv'd by knowledge into a resemblance of him, who made this change:

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

Good

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:

have cordially reliev'd me. Epaphras a servant of Christ, and your countryman, salutes you, who is always very earnest in his prayers, that you may be perfectly acquainted with, and constantly observe,

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;

General references

but you must not be such: the greatest of you must be as the junior, and he that governs as he that serves.