God’s Word encourages us to be different from the world. Being different here means living a life that is different from the world or thinking differently. Since we are people who have responded to God’s call, we will not follow the world’s thinking but will follow the path shown by God.
In the Bible, we see many cases where God’s children glorified God through their exceptional lives. So we should also try to be different from this world because God has prepared another world for us.
Being different means living according to God’s standards and not according to the teachings of the world. When the world teaches us to hate others, we will love them. When the people of the world envy others, we will love them. When the people of the world do not forgive others, we will forgive them. By living this way, we will be different and praise God.
Dear friends, now let’s look at the following Bible verses that talk about being different.
Romans 12:1-2 :—
“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 serviceAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, perfect, will of God”
Romans 13:14 :—
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof”
Romans 14:8 :—
“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s”
Romans 15:7 :—
“Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God”
Romans 6:4 :—
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”
Romans 8:28 :—
“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”
Matthew 5:13-14 :—
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, to be trodden under foot of menYe are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid”
Matthew 5:16 :—
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, glorify your Father which is in heaven”
Matthew 6:24 :—
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, love the other; or else he will hold to the one, despise the other. Ye cannot serve God mammon”
John 15:19 :—
“If 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”
John 17:16 :—
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world”
Philippians 2:15 :—
“That ye may be blameless harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world”
Philippians 3:20 :—
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ”
Titus 2:14 :—
“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works”
Titus 3:5 :—
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, renewing of the Holy Ghost”
Ephesians 1:13 :—
“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise”
Ephesians 2:10 :—
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them”
Ephesians 4:1 :—
“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called”
Ephesians 4:24 :—
“That ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness true holiness”
Ephesians 5:8 :—
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light”
Colossians 1:22 :—
“In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy unblameable unreproveable in his sight”
Colossians 3:10 :—
“Have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him”
Colossians 3:12 :—
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering”
Colossians 3:17 :—
“Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him”
Galatians 1:10 :—
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ”
Galatians 2:20 :—
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, gave himself for me”
Galatians 5:1 :—
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage”
Galatians 5:24 :—
“They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections lusts”
Galatians 6:14 :—
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, I unto the world”
James 1:27 :—
“Pure religion undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world”
James 4:4 :—
“Ye adulterers 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”