Romans 12:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Ezra 10:11

And now, make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do what pleases him, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from your foreign wives."

Psalm 34:8

Let the snare, of which he is ignorant, come upon him, and let the deception, which he has hidden, take hold of him: and may he fall into that very snare.

Psalm 51:10

But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil. Neither shall you go astray in judgment, by agreeing with the majority opinion, apart from the truth.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, away from you, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And then why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

Matthew 13:22

And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

Mark 4:19

but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit.

John 14:30

I will not now speak at length with you. For the prince of this world is coming, but he does not have anything in me.

John 15:19

If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.

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, too, am not of the world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.

Romans 12:1

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

Romans 13:14

Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.

Romans 7:12

And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Romans 7:22

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. And so it has been written: "I will catch the wise in their own astuteness."

2 Corinthians 4:4

As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself on behalf of our sins, so that he might deliver us from this present wicked age, according to the will of God our Father.

Ephesians 1:18

May the eyes of your heart be illuminated, so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the wealth of the glory of his inheritance with the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason, do not choose to be imprudent. Instead, understand what is the will of God.

Colossians 1:9

Then, too, from the day when we first heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and requesting that you be filled with the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:10

and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you, who is from among you, a servant of Christ Jesus, ever solicitous for you in prayer, so that you may stand, perfect and complete, in the entire will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

Titus 3:5

And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,

1 Peter 2:3

if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

1 Peter 4:2

so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through Christ, he has given us the greatest and most precious promises, so that by these things you may become sharers in the Divine Nature, fleeing from the corruption of that desire which is in the world.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.

1 John 3:13

If the world hates you, brothers, do not be surprised.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.

Revelation 12:9

And he was thrown out, that great dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduces the whole world. And he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Revelation 13:8

And all who inhabit the earth worshiped the beast, those whose names have not been written, from the origin of the world, in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.