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, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• Eph 4:22–24That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
• Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Ezek 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
• 1 Pet 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Rom 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• John 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Titus 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
• Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• Prov 3:1–4My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
• Eph 4:17–20This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• John 17:14I 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.
• Col 1:21–22And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 19:7–11The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
• 2 Pet 1:4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
• 1 Jn 4:4–5Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
• Ps 34:8O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
• Ezek 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Eph 5:9–10(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
• 1 Jn 3:13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• 2 Tim 3:16–17All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
• Eph 1:18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Prov 3:13–18Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
• 1 Jn 5:19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
• 2 Pet 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• Eph 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Gal 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

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