Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Do not conform

1 Peter 1:14  As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

 

to the pattern of this world 

1 Corinthians 1:20  Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 

2 Corinthians 10:2  I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.

1 John 2:15-17  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind 

Ephesians 4:22-24  You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is 

Ephesians 5:17  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Colossians 1:9  For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, ...

his good, pleasing and perfect will 

Ephesians 5:8-10  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.

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