Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Romans 12:2

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Romans 12:2 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Romans 12:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Romans 12. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • Ephesians 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • Colossians 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • 1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
  • Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
  • Ezekiel 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
  • 1 Peter 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
  • John 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
  • Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
  • Romans 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
  • Titus 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
  • James 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

More to meet God in Romans

Romans 8:28Romans 6:23Romans 5:8Romans 8:31Romans 8:38Romans 10:9Romans 15:13Romans 3:23Romans 5:1Romans 10:13Romans 8:37Romans 12:1Romans 14:8Romans 12:12

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.