Romans 12:2 Cross References - Goodspeed

² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

⁷ It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

³⁰ I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

¹⁴ I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

¹² So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good.

¹⁴ We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am physical, sold into slavery to sin.

²² My inner nature agrees with the divine law,

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

¹⁹ For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

¹⁷ So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness? ¹⁵ How can Christ agree with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people." ¹⁷ Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

⁴ who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

² in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. ¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart, ¹⁹ for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice. ²⁰ That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; ¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord.

¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

²¹ And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you ²² through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence—

¹⁰ and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

¹² Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired, and useful in teaching, in reproof, in correcting faults, and in training in uprightness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

²⁷ A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.

⁴ You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

¹⁸ for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up,

³ since you have tasted the Lord's kindness.

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

²⁰ For if after men have escaped the corrupting influences of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome by them, their final condition is worse than their former one.

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

¹³ You must not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you!

⁴ You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

⁹ So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.