Romans 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” calls believers to let God reshape how they think rather than being molded by the culture around them. Change starts on the inside, with a renewed mind.
Read the full meaning“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 12:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
- Leviticus 18:29Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
- Deuteronomy 18:9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- Psalms 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Psalms 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
- Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
- Psalms 119:72The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
- Psalms 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- Psalms 119:103How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Psalms 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- Proverbs 3:13Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- Ezekiel 36:26I 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 flesh.
- John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
- John 14:30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
- John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- John 17:14I 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.
- Romans 7:12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- Romans 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
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