A Life Dedicated To God

¹ For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. ² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God. ³ But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

Conformed to This World

Of This World

Purpose of God

What is Good

Will of God

That Which Is Good

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

Proverbs 3:1-4

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

Romans 12:1

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

Psalm 34:8

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Psalm 51:10

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

Psalm 119:47-48

And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

Ezekiel 36:26

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

Colossians 3:10

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

Titus 3:5

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psalm 119:174

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

James 4:4

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

1 John 2:15-17

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 4:4-5

You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Revelation 13:8

And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Psalm 119:97

O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Psalm 119:128

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

John 7:7

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

John 17:14

I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Romans 7:12

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Romans 7:22

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

2 Corinthians 4:4

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

1 John 3:13

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

1 John 5:19

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

Exodus 23:2

Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

Leviticus 18:29-30

For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

Ezekiel 18:31

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

John 14:30

After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

Romans 7:14

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

Ephesians 1:18

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

Ephesians 2:2

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

Ephesians 4:17-20

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

Ephesians 4:22-24

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

1 Peter 1:18

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

1 Peter 2:3

If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

1 Peter 4:2

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

2 Peter 1:4

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

Ephesians 5:9-10

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

2 Corinthians 6:14-17

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?