Romans 12:2

Do not be shaped by the world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind to discern God's good and perfect will.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Pet 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Eph 4:22–24that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
• Ezek 36:26I will also 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.
• 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Prov 3:1–4My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Eph 4:17–20This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• Col 1:21–22You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• 2 Pet 1:4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
• 1 Jn 4:4–5You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Ps 34:8Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Eph 5:9–10for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
• 1 Jn 3:13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• 2 Tim 3:16–17Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
• Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Prov 3:13–18Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
• Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY

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