Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service. ² Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect. ³ For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you 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

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Romans 12:1

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good! How blessed is the one who takes shelter in him!

Psalm 51:10

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

2 Corinthians 5:17

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away -- look, what is new has come!

Psalm 119:47-48

I will find delight in your commands, which I love.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.

Colossians 3:10

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

Titus 3:5

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one's life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

Romans 13:14

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

Galatians 1:4

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

James 4:4

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their 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 from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.

Psalm 119:72

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Psalm 119:97

(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.

Psalm 119:103

Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!

Psalm 119:128

For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

John 17:14

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

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, 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 age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

2 Corinthians 4:4

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 John 3:13

Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

Exodus 23:2

"You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

Leviticus 18:29-30

For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

Ezekiel 18:31

Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?

John 14:30

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

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

Ephesians 1:18

-- since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened -- so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 4:17-20

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Ephesians 4:22-24

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

Colossians 1:21-22

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

1 Peter 1:18

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:3

if you have experienced the Lord's kindness.

1 Peter 4:2

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

Revelation 12:9

So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

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

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?