Verse 2
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Referenced Verses
- 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
- 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 so that if any one `is' in Christ -- `he is' a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
- Col 3:10 : 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
- Eph 4:22-24 : 22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.
- 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world, 17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
- Rom 12:1 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;
- Eph 5:17 : 17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,
- Ezek 36:26 : 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.
- John 15:19 : 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
- 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
- Titus 3:5 : 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
- Jas 1:27 : 27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
- Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
- Prov 3:1-4 : 1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, 2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee. 3 Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, 4 And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
- Rom 13:14 : 14 but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
- 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;
- Prov 3:13-18 : 13 O the happiness of a man `who' hath found wisdom, And of a man `who' bringeth forth understanding. 14 For better `is' her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase. 15 Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour. 17 Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace. 18 A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.
- 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
- Ps 51:10 : 10 A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.
- Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of Jehovah `is' perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah `are' stedfast, Making wise the simple, 8 The precepts of Jehovah `are' upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah `is' pure, enlightening the eyes, 9 The fear of Jehovah `is' clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah `are' true, They have been righteous -- together. 10 They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb. 11 Also -- Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them `is' a great reward.'
- 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
- 1 John 5:19 : 19 we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
- Eph 4:17-20 : 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, 19 who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; 20 and ye did not so learn the Christ,
- Col 4:12 : 12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
- Ps 34:8 : 8 Taste ye and see that Jehovah `is' good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him.
- Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved, 48 And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!
- John 17:14 : 14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
- Col 1:21-22 : 21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
- Gal 5:22-23 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
- Gal 1:4 : 4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
- 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'
- Rom 7:12 : 12 so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
- Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
- 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,
- 1 John 3:13 : 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;
- 1 John 4:4-5 : 4 Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who `is' in you, than he who is in the world. 5 They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;
- Rev 13:8 : 8 And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;
- Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law `is' my delight.
- Lev 18:29-30 : 29 for any one who doth `any' of all these abominations -- even the persons who are doing `so', have been cut off from the midst of their people; 30 and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do `any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I `am' Jehovah your God.'
- John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning 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 once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
- 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness? 15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, 17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,
- 2 Tim 3:16-17 : 16 every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.
- Rev 12:9 : 9 and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
- John 14:30 : 30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
- Eph 1:18 : 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
- Ps 119:97 : 97 `Mem.' O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it `is' my meditation.
- Rom 7:14 : 14 for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
- Rom 7:22 : 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
- Deut 18:9-9 : 9 `When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations: 10 there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, 11 and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead. 12 `For the abomination of Jehovah `is' every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence. 13 Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God, 14 for these nations whom thou art possessing, unto observers of clouds, and unto diviners, do hearken; and thou -- not so hath Jehovah thy God suffered thee.
- Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.
- Ps 119:72 : 72 Better to me `is' the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!
- Exod 23:2 : 2 `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside;
- 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
- 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 if so be ye did taste that the Lord `is' gracious,