Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service: ² and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. ³ For I speak, through the grace which has been given unto me, for every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one the 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 being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord.

Romans 12:1

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

Colossians 3:10

and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him:

Titus 3:5

not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

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 have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins, in order that he might redeem us from the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father:

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All scripture is God-breathed and profitable unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto instruction which is in righteousness:

James 4:4

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

1 John 4:4-5

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

Revelation 13:8

And all those who dwell upon the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, will worship him.

John 7:7

The world is not able to hate you; but it hates me, because I testify against it, that its works are evil.

John 17:14

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

Romans 7:12

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, 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 has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 John 3:13

And be not astonished, brother, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

John 14:30

I shall no longer speak many things with you, because the prince of the world comes: and he has nothing in me;

Romans 7:14

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

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 1:18

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience;

Ephesians 4:17-20

Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 4:22-24

that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, being at one time aliens and enemies in your minds on account of wicked works, nevertheless he has now reconciled

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:3

if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 4:2

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon, the old serpent, the one called the devil, and Satan, the one deceiving the whole world, was cast out: 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 unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?