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.
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
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 f
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
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,
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and re
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Chr
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
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 th
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.
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of th
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the wor
Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new sp
So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteo
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 gl
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only
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 spi
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellows
who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the c
now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.