Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ² Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ³ For by the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned 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, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but because of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Galatians 1:4

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness;

James 4:4

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

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

Revelation 13:8

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

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 your 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 holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 John 3:13

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

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

Ephesians 1:18

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:17-20

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds,

Ephesians 4:22-24

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

Colossians 1:21-22

And although you were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:3

for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

By these he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and become partakers of the divine nature.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole worldhe was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?