Romans 12:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

American Standard Version (1901)

² And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Common English Bible

² Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is—what is good and pleasing and mature.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

Romans 12:2 Cross References

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

2 Corinthians 5:17

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Ephesians 5:17

Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ezekiel 36:26

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 art heart of flesh.

1 Peter 4:2

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Psalm 51:10

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

Romans 13:14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

Titus 3:5

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost,

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world hath 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 upon them.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

2 Peter 1:4

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereto ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Psalm 34:8

O taste and see that the LORD is good: Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

1 John 3:13

Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

Ephesians 1:18

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

Ephesians 2:2

wherein aforetime ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; And thy law is my delight.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; And I hate every false way. פ PE

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Psalm 119:97

Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:72

The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. י JOD

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest judgement:

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world.

1 Peter 2:3

if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Romans 7:12

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

John 14:30

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Ezra 10:11

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.

Matthew 13:22

And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

Mark 4:19

and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,