Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect. ³ For, I say, by the grace which is given unto me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has divided to every 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 obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

Romans 12:1

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Wherefore if any person be in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

Titus 3:5

not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

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 elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

Romans 13:14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, 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 you should abstain from whoredom;

2 Timothy 3:16-17

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

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

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

Revelation 13:8

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

John 7:7

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

John 17:14

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

Romans 7:12

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

Romans 7:22

For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is folly in the sight of God. For it is written, "He entangleth the wise in their own craftiness."

2 Corinthians 4:4

among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.

1 John 3:13

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

1 John 5:19

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

John 14:30

I shall not speak many things more with you: for the ruler of this world is coming, though in me he hath no part.

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, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

Ephesians 1:18

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he hath called you, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance for the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience:

Ephesians 4:17-20

This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 4:22-24

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

Colossians 1:21-22

And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye have not been redeemed out of your vain manner of life, derived traditionally from your fathers, by the corruptible things, silver and gold,

1 Peter 2:3

if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

1 Peter 4:2

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

2 Peter 1:4

whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.??5 And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence;

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the Devil, and Satan, who deceiveth 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 not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness?