September 12: Exodus 23:2; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 6:14–16; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 4:20–21; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:17; Genesis 3:19; Psalm 104:23; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Isaiah 28:12; Matthew 20:12; John 9:4; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Galatians 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Hebrews 4:9 - a podcast by Crossway

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

“You shall not fall in with the many to do evil.”

Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.—What partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols?—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. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.—That is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him,… as the truth is in Jesus.

Exodus 23:2 (Listen)

2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

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Romans 12:2 (Listen)

2 Do not be conformed to this world,¹ but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.²

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2 Corinthians 6:14–16 (Listen)

The Temple of the Living God

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial?¹ Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

  “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,
    and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.

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Ephesians 2:2 (Listen)

2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

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Ephesians 4:20–21 (Listen)

20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

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James 4:4 (Listen)

4 You adulterous people!¹ Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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1 John 2:15 (Listen)

Do Not Love the World

15 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.

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1 John 2:17 (Listen)

17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground.”—We would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.—Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.—“Night is coming, when no one can work.”

Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.—Always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

There remains a… rest for the people of God.—“To us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.”—“This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose.”

Genesis 3:19 (Listen)

19   By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
  till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
  for you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”

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Psalm 104:23 (Listen)

23   Man goes out to his work
    and to his labor until the evening.

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Ecclesiastes 9:10 (Listen)

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,¹ for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

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Isaiah 28:12 (Listen)

12     to whom he has said,
  “This is rest;
    give rest to the weary;
  and this is repose”;
    yet they would not hear.

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Matthew 20:12 (Listen)

12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

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John 9:4 (Listen)

4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 (Listen)

58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

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Galatians 6:9 (Listen)

9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

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1 Thessalonians 4:11 (Listen)

11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

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2 Thessalonians 3:10 (Listen)

10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

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Hebrews 4:9 (Listen)

9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

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