TSK · Romans 12:2

For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.

The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!

I long for your deliverance, O LORD; I find delight in your law.

Blessings of Obtaining Wisdom Blessed is the one who has found wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away– look, what is new has come!

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–

Paul’s Goal in Ministry And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.