Renewing Your Mind

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

But you did not learn Christ that way; — read the full passage →

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. — read the full passage →

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,