Study it in the app“And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may discern what the will of God is: what is good and pleasing and complete.”
Paul asks us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice: that is our worshipPraise and worshipOffer your life to God and renew your mindPurposeOffer your body as a living sacrifice and renew your mindPurityPaul links giving yourself to God and renewing your mind with finding his willGod guides
Andκαὶdo notμὴbe conformedσυσχηματίζεσθεto thisτῷ τούτῳage,αἰῶνιbutἀλλὰbe transformedμεταμορφοῦσθεby the renewalτῇ ἀνακαινώσειof your mind,τοῦ νοόςso thatεἰς τὸyouὑμᾶςmay discernδοκιμάζεινwhatτίthe willτὸ θέλημαof Godτοῦ θεοῦis:what is goodτὸ ἀγαθὸνandκαὶpleasingεὐάρεστονandκαὶcomplete.τέλειον
be conformed
Be conformed, take on the shape of something, follow its pattern.
Where else “syschēmatizesthe” appearsage
This present world, or the one to come.
Where else “aiōni” appearsbe transformed
Be transformed, change form. Said of Jesus on the mountain, the transfiguration.
Where else “metamorphousthe” appearsrenewal
Renewal: making new again.
Where else “anakainōsei” appearsmind
The capacity to think, judge and understand in each person.
Where else “noos” appearstest
To check something to see if it is good.
Where else “dokimazein” appearswill
Will: what someone wants and decides.
Where else “thelēma” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appearsgood
Being as it should be and doing others good; in the full sense, God alone.
Where else “agathon” appearspleasing, acceptable
Pleasing, acceptable: what pleases someone.
Where else “euareston” appearsperfect
Whole, lacking nothing.
Where else “teleion” appears1I urge you then, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice living, holy, pleasing to God, which is your rational worship.
2 · This verse (above)
3For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to think soberly, as God has assigned to each a measure of faith.
1. What it says
What does Paul ask in vv. 1-2, and what does he say about the mind?
2. What it means
What does it mean to you not to be conformed to this age but to be transformed by the renewal of the mind? (v. 2)
3. How I live it
Paul says: "If possible, as far as it depends on you, be at peace with all people" (v. 18). With whom can you take a step toward peace?
