Romans 12:2

God's Word

Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Cross References

Ezra 10:11

Confess to the Lord God of your ancestors what you have done, and do what he wants. Separate yourselves from the people of this land and from your foreign wives.”

Psalm 119:103

How sweet the taste of your promise is! It tastes sweeter than honey.

Psalm 119:128

I follow the straight paths of your guiding principles. I hate every pathway that leads to lying.

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for you to save me, O Lord, and your teachings make me happy.

Psalm 119:72

The teachings ⌞that come⌟ from your mouth are worth more to me than thousands in gold or silver.

Psalm 119:97

Oh, how I love your teachings! They are in my thoughts all day long.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the person who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 51:10

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

Exodus 23:2

Never follow a crowd in doing wrong. When you testify in court, don’t side with the majority to pervert justice.

Ezekiel 18:31

Stop all the rebellious things that you are doing. Get yourselves new hearts and new spirits. Why do you want to die, nation of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.

Matthew 13:22

The seed planted among thornbushes ⌞is another person who⌟ hears the word. But the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of riches choke the word so that it can’t produce anything.

Mark 4:19

but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of riches, and the desires for other things take over. They choke the word so that it can’t produce anything.

John 14:30

The ruler of this world has no power over me. But he’s coming, so I won’t talk with you much longer.

John 15:19

If you had anything in common with the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But you don’t have anything in common with the world. I chose you from the world, and that’s why the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them your message. But the world has hated them because they don’t belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I say that what everyone does is evil.

Romans 12:1

Brothers and sisters, in view of all we have just shared about God’s compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, dedicated to God and pleasing to him. This kind of worship is appropriate for you.

Romans 13:14

Instead, live like the Lord Jesus Christ did, and forget about satisfying the desires of your corrupt nature.

Romans 7:12

So the laws in Moses’ Teachings are holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.

Romans 7:14

I know that God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin.

Romans 7:22

I take pleasure in God’s standards in my inner being.

1 Corinthians 3:19

The wisdom of this world is nonsense in God’s sight. That’s why Scripture says, “God catches the wise in their cleverness.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

Galatians 1:4

In order to free us from this present evil world, Christ took the punishment for our sins, because that was what our God and Father wanted.

Ephesians 1:18

Then you will have deeper insight. You will know the confidence that he calls you to have and the glorious wealth that God’s people will inherit.

Ephesians 2:2

You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God.

Ephesians 5:17

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord wants.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we have not stopped praying for you since the day we heard about you. We ask ⌞God⌟ to fill you with the knowledge of his will through every kind of spiritual wisdom and insight.

Colossians 3:10

and you’ve become a new person. This new person is continually renewed in knowledge to be like its Creator.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, a servant of Christ Jesus from your city, greets you. He always prays intensely for you. He prays that you will continue to be mature and completely convinced of everything that God wants.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is God’s will that you keep away from sexual sin as a mark of your devotion to him.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal.

James 1:27

Pure, unstained religion, according to God our Father, is to take care of orphans and widows when they suffer and to remain uncorrupted by this world.

James 4:4

You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that love for this ⌞evil⌟ world is hatred toward God? Whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.

1 Peter 1:18

Realize that you weren’t set free from the worthless life handed down to you from your ancestors by a payment of silver or gold which can be destroyed.

1 Peter 2:3

Certainly you have tasted that the Lord is good!

1 Peter 4:2

That way you won’t be guided by sinful human desires as you live the rest of your lives on earth. Instead, you will be guided by what God wants you to do.

2 Peter 1:4

Through his glory and integrity he has given us his promises that are of the highest value. Through these promises you will share in the divine nature because you have escaped the corruption that sinful desires cause in the world.

2 Peter 2:20

People can know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and escape the world’s filth. But if they get involved in this filth again and give in to it, they are worse off than they were before.

1 John 3:13

Brothers and sisters, don’t be surprised if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

Revelation 12:9

The huge serpent was thrown down. That ancient snake, named Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was thrown down to earth. Its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:8

Everyone living on earth will worship it, everyone whose name is not written in the Book of Life. That book belongs to the lamb who was slaughtered before the creation of the world.