Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. ³ Therefore I say through the grace given unto me, to all those that are among you not to obtain more knowledge than is prudent to know, but to obtain knowledge with temperance, each one according to the measure of faith that God has dealt.

Conformed to This World

Of This World

Purpose of God

What is Good

Will of God

That Which Is Good

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding of what the will of the Lord is.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Romans 12:1

Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.

Psalm 34:8

Cheth O taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man that shall trust in him.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.

Psalm 119:47-48

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Blessed is the man that has found wisdom and who brings to light intelligence,

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Colossians 3:10

and being clothed with the new man, who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one that created him,

Titus 3:5

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for thy saving health, O LORD, and thy law is my delight.

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

But be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not listen to the flesh, to fulfil its desires.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver 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 slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For the will of God is your sanctification, that ye should separate yourselves from fornication,

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

Certainly, if having separated themselves from the contaminations of the world, by the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again entangle themselves therein and are overcome, their latter end is made worse for them than the beginnings.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship it, whose names are not written in the book of the life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.

Psalm 119:72

The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Psalm 119:97

MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I have esteemed all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I have hated every false way.

John 7:7

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

John 17:14

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

Romans 7:12

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

Romans 7:22

For I delight with the law of God with the inward man,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.

James 1:27

The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.

1 John 3:13

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

1 John 5:19

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest judgment;

Leviticus 18:29-30

For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons that commit them shall be cut off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

When thou shall have come into the land which the LORD thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those Gentiles.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your iniquities by which ye have rebelled, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

John 14:30

Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world comes and has nothing in me.

Romans 7:14

For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is this: Charity, joy, peace, tolerance, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 1:18

illuminating the eyes of your understanding, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints

Ephesians 2:2

in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 4:17-20

This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their own senses,

Ephesians 4:22-24

that ye put off everything concerning the old way of life, that is, the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things like silver and gold,

1 Peter 2:3

if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is benevolent;

1 Peter 4:2

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be made participants of the divine nature, having fled the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness? and what communion does light have with darkness?