Romans 12:2

Do not let this present age press you into its mold, but be changed through and through as your mind is made new. Then you will be able to test and recognize the will of God: what is good and pleasing and perfect.
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  1. Growing in Wisdom · Ochorus Originals

    Ten Key Scriptures for Students cites Romans 12:2

    …friends, media, and daily habits that strengthen your purity rather than weakening it. 9. Romans 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your…

  2. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Spirit, Soul, and Body cites Romans 12:2

    …to anti-intellectualism. Paul says, “be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2, ASV). He prays that believers may be “filled with the knowledge of his will in all…

  3. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The New Birth cites Rom. 12:2

    …in your members against the law of God. 3. The third result of the New Birth is found in Rom. 12:2, where we read, "And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by…

  4. Portraits of Courage – Amy Carmichael · Ochorus Originals

    Bangalore cites Romans 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” — Romans 12:2, ASV The Garden City Bangalore in 1895 was a pleasant place for a European to live. It…

  5. The Key Teachings of Julia A. J. Foote · Ochorus Originals

    Love Not the World cites ROMANS 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ROMANS 12:2 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness…

  6. The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Difficulties Concerning Guidance cites Romans 12:2

    …forgive you your trespasses .” Take the matter of conformity to the world, and we have (Romans 12:2) “ Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…

  7. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    The World cites Rom. xii. 2

    …"Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." (Rom. xii. 2.) "We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God." (1…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 1 — Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made Accursed and Degenerate cites Rom. 12:2

    …mind (Eph. 4:23), as he elsewhere tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind (Rom. 12:2). Hence it follows, that that part in which the dignity and excellence of the soul are…

  9. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Breaking of the Outer Man cites Romans 12:2

    …spiritual. Romans commands believers to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2, ASV). The mind is renewed, not discarded. Natural cleverness becomes problematic when it…

  10. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Romans 12:2

    …on Scripture. Scriptures to revisit 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12; Romans 8:16; Romans 12:2; Mark 12:30; 1 John 4:1. Reflection 1. Do you mistake strong emotion for the Holy Spirit?…

  11. Growing in Wisdom · Ochorus Originals

    Friendship and Peer Pressure cites Romans 12:2

    …conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." — Romans 12:2 Recognising Toxic Friendships Be alert when your friends mock your faith or call you "too…

  12. Real Questions – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    How Do I Know God’s Will for My Life? cites Romans 12:2

    …will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:2). The more your thinking is shaped by Scripture, the more your instincts line up with…

  13. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 4 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 15 — Don’t Be Squeezed cites Romans 12:2

    …will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” — Romans 12:2 (BSB) Have you ever played with modeling clay or cookie dough? If you press it into a…

  14. The Inner Chamber · Andrew Murray

    The Daily Renewal — Its Power cites Romans 12: 2

    …renewing of the Holy Ghost is a work that is carried on continuously and never ends. In Romans 12: 2, we read of the progressive transformation of the Christian life, that it is by “The…

  15. The Inner Chamber · Andrew Murray

    The Daily Renewal — Its Cost cites Romans 12: 2

    …you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12: 2. It is not a little or an easy thing to be a full-grown, strong Christian. On God's side…

  16. The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones · Ochorus Originals

    Salt and Light cites ROMANS 12:2

    …him. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ROMANS 12:2 He saw this as one explanation of the church’s weakness in his day. It had tried to win…

  17. The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth · Ochorus Originals

    Popular Christianity cites ROMANS 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ROMANS 12:2 In 1887 Catherine Booth gave a series of addresses in the West End of London that were…

  18. The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor · Ochorus Originals

    Separated unto the Lord cites ROMANS 12:2

    …And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ROMANS 12:2 It is impossible to read those words without thinking of Taylor’s own Chinese dress. He…

  19. The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon · Ochorus Originals

    The Heart and the Head cites ROMANS 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ROMANS 12:2 Third, God guides through the counsel of others. The heart left alone will almost always…

  20. The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones · Ochorus Originals

    Talking to Yourself cites ROMANS 12:2

    …warms the heart and moves the will. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ROMANS 12:2 This is why he was so often called a preacher to the mind, though that description is…

  21. The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer · Ochorus Originals

    The Church and the World cites ROMANS 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ROMANS 12:2 He was especially sharp about the last of these. In a booklet on the religious film, and…

  22. The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson · Ochorus Originals

    Wholly Sanctified cites ROMANS 12:2

    …And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. ROMANS 12:2 The body is sanctified when its members are placed at God’s disposal — the eyes, the…

  23. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Walk cites ROMANS 12:2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ROMANS 12:2 Conformity, he pointed out, happens by default. It requires no decision. A body placed in…

  24. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    January cites Rom. xii. 2

    …freedom. January 16 “Prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom. xii. 2). There are three conditions in which the water in that engine may be. First, the boiler…

  25. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    February cites Rom 12:2

    …“Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”— Rom 12:2. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed…

  26. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    October cites Romans 12:2

    …thy love in my heart, this evening. October 14 “And be not conformed to this world.” (Romans 12:2) If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate…

  27. Orthodoxy (For Teens) · G. K. Chesterton

    The White Post cites Romans 12:2

    …be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2 (KJV) Chesterton had a simple but brilliant picture for why good things need constant…

  28. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 7 — A Summary of the Christian Life cites Rom. 12:2

    …of the Spirit of God. This transformation (which Paul calls the renewing of the mind, Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23), though it is the first entrance to life, was unknown to all the…

  29. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

    Love not the World cites Rom. xii. 2

    …your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Rom. xii. 2. As we look at the professing Christians of to-day, the question arises, Are they not all…

  30. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.2 Repentance cites Rom 12: 2

    …[2] Transformation, or change. ‘Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.’ Rom 12: 2. Repentance works a change in the whole man. As when wine is put into a glass of water…

  31. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IV. Gracious affections do arise from the mind's being enlightened, richly and spiritually to understand or apprehend divine things cites Rom. 12:2

    …The apostle seems plainly to have respect to this way of judging of spiritual beauty, in Rom. 12:2: “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good…

  32. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Friendship with the World cites Rom. 12:2

    …often supposed to be of the same import with this: “Be not conformed to this world:” (Rom. 12:2:) But it has little or no relation to it; it speaks of quite another thing. Indeed the…

  33. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Dress cites Rom. 12:2

    …that good and acceptable and perfect will of God,” not to be “conformed to this world.” [Rom. 12:2] Indeed this exhortation relates more directly to the wisdom of the world, which is…

  34. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    The Fight cites Rom. xii. 2

    …not conformed to this world.” (James iv. 4; 1 John ii. 15; Gal. vi. 14; 1 John v. 4; Rom. xii. 2.) He must fight the devil. That old enemy of mankind is not dead. Ever since the fall of…

  35. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Knowledge of God cites Rom 12:2

    …their heart. Such as are enveloped in ignorance cannot give God a reasonable service. Rom 12:2. Ignorance is the nurse of impiety. The schoolmen say, Omne peccatum fundatur in…

  36. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Prophetic Office cites Rom 12:2

    …them.’ I Cor 2:14. He knows not what it is to be transformed by the renewing of the mind, Rom 12:2, or what the inward workings of the Spirit mean; these are riddles and paradoxes to Him.…

  37. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Sanctification cites Rom 12:2

    …spiritual refining of the soul; which in Scripture is called a ‘renewing of our mind,’ Rom 12:2, and a ‘partaking of the divine nature.’ 2 Pet 1:1. The priests in the law were not only…

  38. Portraits of Courage – Mary Slessor · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Romans 12:1-2

    …would not take back a life already given to the people of Okoyong. Scriptures to revisit Romans 12:1-2; Psalm 84:11. Reflection 1. What have you laid on the altar that you are tempted to take…

  39. Portraits of Courage – Amy Carmichael · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Romans 12:1-2

    …to be pressed into its mould, and found a teacher in Thomas Walker. Scriptures to revisit Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 2:5-8. Reflection 1. Where has the culture around you pressed your faith…

  40. Godliness · Catherine Booth

    Second Address cites Romans 12:1-2

    …you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. — Romans 12:1-2 I have been thinking about the word in the text, “that”—“that by testing you may discern…

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