Romans 12:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore 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.
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 A 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 a heart of flesh.
  • John 15:19 : 19 If 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.
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 not 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 1:27 : 27 Pure 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.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Prov 3:1-4 : 1 My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to you. 3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor, And good understanding in the sight of God and man.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has 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 dawn on them.
  • Prov 3:13-18 : 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, The man who gets understanding. 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, And her return is better than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
  • 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple. 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by 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 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
  • Eph 4:17-20 : 17 This 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, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; 19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ that way;
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
  • Ps 34:8 : 8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 I will delight myself in your commandments, Because I love them. 48 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I 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 1:21-22 : 21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who 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--
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
  • 1 John 4:4-5 : 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
  • Lev 18:29-30 : 29 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
  • Eph 5:9-9 : 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
  • 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness? 15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people." 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
  • 2 Tim 3:16-17 : 16 Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  • John 14:30 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your hearts{TR reads "understanding" instead of "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,
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 How love I your law! It is my meditation all day.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
  • Deut 18:9-9 : 9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you. 13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. 14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth!
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

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    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.

  • Eph 4:22-24
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    22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

    23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

    24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This 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,

  • Eph 5:17
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    17Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    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.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  • Rom 6:11-13
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    11Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

    13Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • Titus 2:12
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    12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

  • Rom 12:16-17
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    16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

    17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:4-5
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    4for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

    5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

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    15Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Pet 1:13-14
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    13Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{Literally, "gird up the loins of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

  • Col 3:10
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    10and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

  • 2 Cor 8:12
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    12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.

  • Col 3:2
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    2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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    3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
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    17Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Phil 1:10
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    10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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    12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

  • Phil 2:2
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    2make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • 1 Cor 2:12
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    12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

  • Rom 8:6
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    6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

  • Rom 12:9
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    9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

  • 2 Thess 1:12
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    12that the name of our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

  • Eph 6:11
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    11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

  • 2 Tim 2:4
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    4No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

  • Eph 6:13
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    13Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

  • Rom 12:21
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    21Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Heb 13:21
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    21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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    11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

  • 1 Pet 2:12
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    12having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.