Verse 2
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.
Referenced Verses
- 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, who 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 I 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.
- 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 Good News 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. ZAYIN
- 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, faith, 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 yourself 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. PEY
- 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 in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for 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 requirements, 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 power 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 fellowship 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 Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction 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 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 I love 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. YUD
- 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: