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 obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Eph 4:22–24to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Eph 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
• Ezek 36:26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• 1 Pet 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
• John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Prov 3:1–4My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Eph 4:17–20So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• John 17:14I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
• Col 1:21–22Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Ps 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• 2 Pet 1:4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
• 1 Jn 4:4–5You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• Ps 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Eph 5:9–10for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
• 1 Jn 3:13So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
• 1 Th 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
• 2 Tim 3:16–17All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
• Eph 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
• Prov 3:13–18Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• Ps 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
• 2 Pet 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
• Eph 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Ps 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

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