1 Peter 2:3

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

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

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

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.

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

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

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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

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,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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.

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

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

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

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?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

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.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

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.

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

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”