Romans 12:2

A Life Dedicated To God

¹ I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service; ² and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God. ³ For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one 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 conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;

Ephesians 5:17

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

Romans 12:1

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

2 Corinthians 5:17

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

Colossians 3:10

and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;

Titus 3:5

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy, He saved us through a washing of regeneration and renewal 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 chose 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 not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

James 4:4

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

1 John 2:15-17

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

1 John 4:4-5

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

Revelation 13:8

And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the founding of a world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

John 17:14

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

Romans 7:12

So that the law is holy, and the command is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:22

or I delight in the law of God after the inward man;

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.

James 1:27

A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 John 3:13

Marvel not, brethren, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

John 14:30

I will no more speak much with you; for the Prince of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;

Romans 7:14

For 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, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Ephesians 1:18

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

Ephesians 4:17-20

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

Ephesians 4:22-24

that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in evil works,

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;

1 Peter 2:3

if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;

1 Peter 4:2

that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

through which have been given to us very great and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world in lust:

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole habitable earth; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down 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

Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?