Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. ² Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect. ³ Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

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 children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

Ephesians 5:17

So stop becoming senseless, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Romans 12:1

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

2 Corinthians 5:17

For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self which is in the process of being made new in the likeness of its Creator, so that you may attain a perfect knowledge of Him.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always earnestly pleading for you in his prayers that you may stand fast as men mature and of firm convictions in everything required by the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,

James 4:4

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

1 John 2:15-17

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

1 John 4:4-5

You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names, from the foundation of the world, have not been written in the slaughtered Lamb's book of life, will worship him.

John 7:7

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

John 17:14

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

Romans 7:12

So the law itself is holy, and its specific commands are holy, right, and good.

Romans 7:22

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For this world's wisdom is mere nonsense to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

James 1:27

A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.

1 John 3:13

You must not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

John 14:30

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

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

Ephesians 1:18

by having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is to which He calls you, how glorious rich God's portion in His people is,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,

Ephesians 4:17-20

So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds,

Ephesians 4:22-24

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

Colossians 1:21-22

So you, who were once estranged from Him, and hostile in disposition as shown by your wrongdoings, He has now reconciled

1 Peter 1:18

because you know that you have not been ransomed with things that perish as silver or gold, from the futile way of living taught by your fathers,

1 Peter 2:3

since you have learned by experience that the Lord is kind.

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

2 Peter 1:4

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

for the product of light consists in practicing everything that is good and right and true;

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?