Romans 12:2

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Romans 12:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Therefore 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.

2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,

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Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

Leviticus 18:29

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 18:30

You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 18:10

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

Deuteronomy 18:11

casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:12

For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 18:14

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

John 14:30

I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

John 15:19

If 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.

John 17:14

I 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.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

The 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.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:15

What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 2:2

in 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.

Ephesians 4:17

So 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.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 4:19

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

Ephesians 4:20

But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

James 1:27

Pure 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.

James 4:4

You 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.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

1 Peter 4:2

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through 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.

2 Peter 2:20

If 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.

1 John 2:15

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 2:17

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

1 John 3:13

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 4:4

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Revelation 13:8

And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

Romans 13:14

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast 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?

Ezekiel 36:26

I 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.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Ephesians 1:18

I 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,

Ephesians 4:22

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Ephesians 4:23

to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

Ephesians 4:24

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

Colossians 1:22

But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Titus 3:5

He 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.

Romans 12:1

Therefore 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.

Psalms 34:8

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Ephesians 5:10

Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

1 Peter 2:3

now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Psalms 19:7

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8

The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

Psalms 19:9

The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.

Psalms 19:10

They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

Psalms 19:11

By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.

Psalms 119:47

I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

Psalms 119:48

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

Psalms 119:72

The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Psalms 119:97

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

Psalms 119:103

How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Psalms 119:128

Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

Psalms 119:174

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 3:2

for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.

Proverbs 3:3

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 3:4

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 3:13

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,

Proverbs 3:14

for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

Proverbs 3:15

She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 3:17

All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17

so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.