Colossians 2:20

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.

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.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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—

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

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

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.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

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

“ ‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.