been inaugurated by Jesus’ earthly ministry, death, and resurrection, but also in the context of “this present age,” with its negative powers, which still exist and continually attempt to thwart the effects of that inaugurated new age.20 J. B. Phillips’s famous paraphrase of 12:2a, “Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its mold,” has effectively captured the ethos of Paul’s negative exhortation, and therefore must be credited as being helpful for an understanding of the apostle’s desire