Romans 12:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. Many Parts in One Body.

Cross References

Ezra 10:11

But now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and do his will: separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

Psalm 119:103

How sweet to my tongue is your promise, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:128

Thus, I follow all your precepts; every wrong way I hate.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, Lord; your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is more precious to me than heaps of silver and gold.

Psalm 119:97

How I love your law, Lord! I study it all day long.

Psalm 34:8

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he saves them.

Psalm 51:10

You will let me hear gladness and joy; the bones you have crushed will rejoice.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When testifying in a lawsuit, you shall not follow the crowd in perverting justice.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

Mark 4:19

but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.

John 14:30

I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me,

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not 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 testify to it that its works are evil.

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Romans 7:12

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

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.

Romans 7:22

For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own ruses,”

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins that he might rescue us from the present evil age in accord with the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 1:18

May the eyes of [your] hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

Colossians 1:9

Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding

Colossians 3:10

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras sends you greetings; he is one of you, a slave of Christ [Jesus], always striving for you in his prayers so that you may be perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from immorality,

Titus 3:5

not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance

1 Peter 1:18

realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

1 Peter 2:3

for you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 4:2

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

2 Peter 2:20

For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of [our] Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.

1 John 3:13

Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 5:19

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

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain.