Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. ³ For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

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 children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!

Psalm 51:10

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

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become 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 findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit 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 having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to the image of him that has created him;

Titus 3:5

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah, 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, on account of this the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

James 4:4

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

1 John 4:4-5

Ye are of God, 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 on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.

Psalm 119:72

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

Psalm 119:97

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

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I regard all thy precepts concerning all things to be right: I hate every false path.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning 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, as I am not of the world.

Romans 7:12

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

1 Corinthians 3:19

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

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked one.

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.

Leviticus 18:29-30

For whoever committeth any of these abominations, ... the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?

John 14:30

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing;

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

Ephesians 1:18

being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

Ephesians 4:17-20

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 4:22-24

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 4:2

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

2 Peter 1:4

through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable 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 light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?